A Path Through Haze (Remastered) Attila Zoller & Masahiko Sato

• 1 Meet 09:03
• 2 Sazo 03:57
• 3 Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair 06:30
• 4 Close Up 03:30
• 5 Together, Not Alone 08:51
• 6 A Path Through Haze 13:48
• Total Runtime 45:39

Info for A Path Through Haze (Remastered)

Atilla Zoller was touring Japan with fellow guitar greats Kenny Burrell and Jim Hall when he first played with pianist Masahiko Sato. Zoller exclaimed, “From the first sound on we were completely together, as if we had known each other for years.” Besides his fame as a player, Sato is known for his arranging and composing, having worked on the albums of such stars as Nancy Wilson and Art Farmer. Although often labeled “free jazz”, this album is everything but. Meet is a hard-driving up-tempo quartet adventure. On Sazo Zoller and Sato play off each other in an improvised dance for two. The Appalachian folk song Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair is transformed into a pulsating modernistic piece featuring Sato’s trio. Close Up gets personal with Zoller and Sato again exploring in duo. Together Not Alone is exactly what it says, with the two improvising off the changes of the standard Alone Together. The title piece is the quartet’s majestic modal excursion into the light. With masterful improvisations and an integral familiarity that borders on the extrasensory, this is a musical path well worth taking.

Masahiko Sato Trio
Attila Zoller, guitar
Masahiko Sato, piano
Yasuo Arakawa, bass
Masahiko Ozu, drums

Recorded November 7th, 1971 at the Berlin Jazz Festival 71 at Teldec Studio Berlin
Recorded by Willi Fruth
Engineered by Eberhard Sengpiel
Produced by Joachim E. Berendt

Digitally remastered

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