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| Łukasz Ciesielski via Wikimedia Commons |
Really cold out there. The wind chill factor was in the mid-thirties below zero Celsius this morning. Still had to get some errands done but at least, we got our scrumptious lunch at our favourite diner. My double-patty smash burger warmed me up nicely and put me to sleep just as quickly when we got home. If I'd ordered a milkshake, I would have been in a coma for several hours but I settled for multiple cups of coffee instead.
Well, I have to wake up sometime since I still have many more hours to go before I sleep properly. I'd say that the following is a good form of getting those energies up. This is "Mystery Cat", a track on a 1980 album called "Toshiyuki Miyama & New Herd Plays Chikara Ueda ~ Big Stuff" by the jazz-fusion band Toshiyuki Miyama & New Herd（宮間利之＆ニューハード）. I had never heard of these guys before but indeed they can cook on "Mystery Cat" which was originally composed by Chikara Ueda（上田力）. It sounds like something ideal for the soundtrack of a "Lupin III" movie with all of the bold brass.
I had assumed that Miyama and his crew had their origins in the 1970s just like Casiopea and The Square, but I was surprised to read on Discogs that the man had this ensemble since 1950 called Jive Ace which expanded its roster and got renamed New Herd in 1958. I don't know much about how many albums the band put out but they've been performing now for well over half a century even after Miyama's passing in 2016.
They're actually a jazz/big band orchestra who also provided musical accompaniment on music shows. During the Showa era musical variety shows on TV usually had large orchestras as the backing musicians.
ReplyDeleteHello, Kyle. Good to hear from you again. Thanks for the information. They would have been a great fit for those Showa era shows.
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