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▀█▄▓████▓▓▄█▀ Artist.......: Tiger Okoshi ░▓ ▌
▄▀██▓██▓▓▀ Album.Title..: two sides to every story ░▓░▐▓
▓▓▄▀█▓▓▓▀ Label........: JVC ░▓░ █▓▌
▐█▓▓ ▀▓ Genre........: Jazz ░▓▓▓ ▐█▓▓
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░▓▓░ ▐█▓▓ ░ ░▓▓░ rip.date....: Aug-08-2003 ░▓▓ ▐███████▓▓▌ ░
░░ ███▓▓ ▓▓░▓░ str.date....: 1995 ░▓▓░ ▓███▀ ▀▓█▓▓ ░
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▀▓█████████████▓▓▓▀ quality.....: 192 kbps ░▓░ █▀ ░░▓▓▓ ▀▓
░ ▀▓██████▓██▓▓▀ ▓░ size........: 89,7 MB ▓▓ ▀░ ░ ░ ░▓░ ░▀
▀▓█████▓▓▓ ░░▓ playtime....: 65:12 min ░▓▓░▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓░
░ ▐███████▓▓▌░▓▓▓░ Catnr.......: JVC-2039-2 ░▓▓▓▓▓ ▓░▓▓░░ ░
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▓████▓▌ 01. on green dolphin street 07:06 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. what it was 06:12 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. wiz or wizout 06:09 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. monday blues 05:45 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. yuki no furu machi o 06:39 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. yesterdays 04:58 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. finders, keepers 08:59 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. my old kentucky home, goodnight 07:26 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. in your bones 06:45 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10. two sides to every story 05:13 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ [ A B O U T . T H i S . R E L E A S E ] ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ TIGER OKOSHI: Two Sides to Every Story ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Tiger Okoshi, trumpet; Mike Stern, electric guitar; ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Gil Goldstein, acoustic piano; Dave Holland, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ acoustic bass; Jack DeJohnette, drums ▓▌
▓████▓▌ JVC JVC-2039-2 (CD only). Jim Anderson, eng.; Akira ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Taguchi, prod. DDD? TT: 65:20 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ In recorded music, the artistic merit of the music ▓▌
▓████▓▌ is not entirely separable from the sonic quality of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the recording. It requires an act of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ imagination, a leap of faith, and considerable ▓▌
▓████▓▌ historical curiosity to enjoy old Charlie Parker ▓▌
▓████▓▌ records. In the case of Two Sides to Every Story, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ you ask yourself: Does Tiger Okoshi possess one of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the world's purest, most cleanly articulated sounds ▓▌
▓████▓▌ on trumpet? Or is it simply that this album ▓▌
▓████▓▌ presents one of the highest-resolution recordings ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of a jazz trumpet that you've ever heard? ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Figuring it out is a high-class problem, brought to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ us by engineer Jim Anderson and producer Akira ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Taguchi and JVC's "20-bit K2 Super Coding System." ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Since the Okoshi album sounds stunningly superior ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to other recordings made by the same engineer in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the same studio (eg, Dave Kikoski, also done at ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Power Station in New York), at least some of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ difference must be attributed to the K2 system, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ which employs a 20-bit, 128x-oversampling A/D ▓▌
▓████▓▌ converter. JVC claims that "K2 Super Coding ▓▌
▓████▓▌ resolves the high-resolution 20-bit signal to the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 16-bit compact-disc format while retaining the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ integrity of the low-level information." The K2 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ interface is said to "effectively eliminate ▓▌
▓████▓▌ time-base jitter in the digital datastream." ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ On the opening track, "On Green Dolphin Street," ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Okoshi's horn knifes into the air of your listening ▓▌
▓████▓▌ room. For all its razor edges, you still hear the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ timbral complexitiesùthe explosion of air in the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ embouchure and the halos of the decays. Jim ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Anderson has captured the powerful harmonics of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ trumpetùone of the most elusive sounds in jazz. You ▓▌
▓████▓▌ quickly remember why armies use trumpets to sound ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the charge. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Tiger Okoshi was born in Japan 45 years ago, but ▓▌
▓████▓▌ has lived in the United States since he was 22. He ▓▌
▓████▓▌ studied at Berklee in Boston, and has played and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ recorded with Gary Burton and Bob Moses. Rather ▓▌
▓████▓▌ quietly, he's been making albums of his own on the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ JVC label since 1981. Two Sides to Every Story ▓▌
▓████▓▌ should get him noticed. Okoshi is a fearless, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ slashing swordsman of a trumpet player, with the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ chops to execute every one of his imagination's ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sprinting, swooping, soaring ideas. His own songs ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ("Finders, Keepers," "Wiz or Wizout") are ▓▌
▓████▓▌ open-ended concepts to provoke spontaneous trumpet ▓▌
▓████▓▌ arias.s ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ But he's best when he's rethinking standards. Who ▓▌
▓████▓▌ would have expected Stephen Foster's "My Old ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Kentucky Home, Goodnight"? Okoshi doesn't mock ▓▌
▓████▓▌ itùhe seriously rocks it. Everyone has done ▓▌
▓████▓▌ "Yesterdays," but here it's fleet and new. Miles ▓▌
▓████▓▌ played "On Green Dolphin Street" muted; Okoshi ▓▌
▓████▓▌ shatters it on open horn in order to reshape it. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The rhythm section is sublimely maniacal. Jack ▓▌
▓████▓▌ DeJohnette hisses his cymbals and rolls up thunder, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and never stops soloing while he keeps time. The ▓▌
▓████▓▌ recording renders the power of DeJohnette and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ bassist Dave Holland, and also their subtlety: you ▓▌
▓████▓▌ hear the softest clicks of sticks on metal, and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Holland's fingers sliding to their double- stops. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ essential jazz recordings, and it establishes Tiger ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Okoshi as a major voice on his instrument.ùThomas ▓▌
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