Album Notes

The sound of Tone Quartet has been awaited, and is here for you hear now.

In order to express the complete image that date leader Naokazu Tone had for the album, production was carried out using vintage recording equipment. This, the imagery of Tone, also succeeded in uniting the musically diverse and rich individuality of four musicians, and at the same time creating a complete piece of art, subliminally reminiscent of a 1960ﾕs Atlantic Records production. (Recorded at Grand-Frog Studios in Tokyo, Japan)

- `I wanted to create music unique to the Osaka jazz scene when I first brought together the sound character of three musicians and myself, later to be Tone Quartet, in 2006`.
- `Tomoko Kageyama radiates fairytale, dream inducing sound. Melodic beauty is born out of Yukari Sekiyaﾕs playing, and the pushing, grinding, dynamic swing flows from the sticks of Hiroshi Mizukami. A new sound is formed, a sound that is Tone Quartet. Feel the music of Tone Quartet, feel the diverse sound character summed up and represented on our 2009 spring release; `Tomorrow`. Tone Quartet is here, summed up`. [Naokazu Tone]