Three Blind Mice (record label)
Three Blind Mice is a Japanese jazz record label founded in June 1970 as a showcase for Japan's emerging jazz performers. It has produced more than 130 albums have been released since. So far they have won the Jazz Disc Award five times in Japan. Produced by Takeshi Fujii and often recorded by the Yoshihiko Kannari, TBM created jazz records by Japanese players since the 1970s and became known for its audiophile sound quality. TBM's records captured a very important, vibrant era in the development of Japanese jazz. Stars like Isao Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, George Kawaguchi, Terumasa Hino and Mari Nakamoto recorded their very first albums with the label. Artists also include Shuko Mizuno's "Jazz Orchestra '73", Toshiyuko Miyama and Masaru Imada.
Discography
- TBM-1 Mine Kosuke Quintet -Mine (LP)
- TBM-2 Masaru Imada Quartet -NOW! (LP) 1970
- TBM-6 Hideto Kanai Group -Q (LP)
- TBM-7 Allan Praskin Quartet -Encounter (LP, Album) 1971
- TBM-10 New Direction For The Arts -Free Form Suite (LP, Album) 1972
- TBM-11 Toya Shigeko With The Imada Masaru Trio (LP) 1972
- TBM-12 Sunao Wada Quartet/Sextet -Coco's Blues' (LP) 1972
- TBM-13 George Otsuka Quintet -Go On (LP) 1972
- TBM-14 Masaru Imada Solo/Trio -Poppy (LP) 1973
- TBM-15 Isao Suzuki Trio/Quartet -Blow Up (LP) 1973
- TBM-16 Shigeko Toya & Her Jazz Friends -Fine And Mellow (LP) 1973
- TBM-17 Terumasa Hino Quintet -Live! (LP) 1973
- TBM-18 Teruo Nakamura Group -Unicorn (LP) 1973
- TBM-19 Hiroshi Fukumura Quintet -Fukumura Hiroshi Quintet (LP) 1973
- TBM-20 Naosuka Myamoto Sextet -Step! (LP) 1973
- TBM-21 Mari Nakamoto & Yasuro Osawa Trio+2 -Unforgettable (LP) 1973
- TBM-22 Masaru Imada Trio & Shigeko Toya -Yokohama Concert (LP) 1973
- TBM-23 Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio -Midnight Sugar (LP) 1974
- TBM-24 Isao Suzuki Quartet Plus One -Blue City (LP) 1974
- TBM-25 Sunao Wada Quartet/Quintet -Blues World (LP) 1974
- TBM-26 Kunihiko Sugano Trio +1 -Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (LP) 1974
- TBM-27 Kenji Mori, Hideo Ichikawa Trio -Solo & Trio (LP) 1974
- TBM-28 Takashi Mizuhashi Quartet+2 -When A Man Loves A Woman (LP) 1974
- TBM-29 Isao Suzuki & Sunao Wada plus Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio, George Otsuka Quintet+2 -Now's The Time (LP) 1974
- TBM-30 Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio -Misty (LP) 1974
- TBM-31 Takashi Mizuhashi Quartet -Who Cares (LP) 1974
- TBM-32 Toshiyuki Miyama & The New Herd -New Herd (LP) 1974
- TBM-33 Mari Nakamoto With The Shoji Yokouchi And Yuri Tashiro -Little Girl Blue (LP) 1974
- TBM-34 Kimiko Kasai With Kosuke Mine Quartet -Yellow Caracas In The Blue (LP) 1971
- TBM-35 George Otsuka Trio -You Are My Sunshine (LP) 1974
- TBM-36 Isao Suzuki Quartet+1 -All Right (LP) 1974
- TBM-37 Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio -Live At The Misty (LP) 1974
- TBM-38 Takashi FuruyaQuintet -Solitude (LP) 1975
- TBM-39 Masaru Imada + 2 -Green Caterpillar (LP, Wit) 1975
- TBM-40 Yoshiko Goto With Takashi Mizuhashi Quartet -Day Dream (LP) 1975
- TBM-41 Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio -Blues For Tee (LP) 1974
- TBM-42 Masaru Imada Quartet -Now! (LP) 1970
- TBM-43 Inaba & Nakamura Duo -Conversation (LP) 1975
- TBM-44 Isao Suzuki Quartet + 2 -Oran-Utan (LP) 1975
- TBM-45 Hideto Kanai & Kings Roar Orchestra -Ode To Birds (LP) 1975
- TBM-46 Hidefumi Toki Quartet -Toki (LP) 1975
- TBM-47 Masaru Imada Trio -One For Duke (LP) 1975
- TBM-48 Toshiyuki Miyama And The New Herd Orchestra -Take The A Train (LP) 1975
- TBM-49 Sunao Wada Quintet / Hitomi Ueda / Ushio Sakai Trio -Blues For Bird (LP) 1975
- TBM-50 Sanae Mizushima -You've Got A Friend (LP) 1975
- TBM-51 Yoshio Otoma / Hidefumi Toki - Alto Madness -Lover Man (LP) 1975
- TBM-52 Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio -The In Crowd (LP) 1974
- TBM-53 Seiichi Nakamura Trio/Quintet -Adventure In My Dream (LP) 1975
- TBM-54 Yoshiko Goto With Inaba & Nakamure Duo -A Touch Of Love (LP) 1975
- TBM-55 Toshiyuki Miyama & The New Herd Plus All-Star Guests* Shuko Mizuno's -"Jazz Orchestra '73" (LP) 1973
- TBM-56 Mari Nakamoto With Suzuki & Watanabe Duo -Mari Nakamoto III (LP) 1975
- TBM-57 Isao Suzuki & His Fellows -Touch (LP) 1975
- TBM-58 Koji Moriyama With The Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio -Night And Day (LP) 1975
- TBM-59 Yama & Jiro's Wave -Girl Talk (LP) 1975
- TBM-60 Masaru Imada -Masaru Imada Piano (LP) 1975
- TBM-61 Motohiko Hino Quartet + 1 "Ryuhyo" - Sailing Ice (LP) 1976
- TBM-62 George Otsuka Quintet -Physical Structure (LP) 1976
- TBM-63 Isao Suzuki Trio -Black Orpheus (LP) 1976
- TBM-64 Toshio Oida -It Was A Very Good Year (LP) 1976
- TBM-65 Shoji Yokouchi Quartet -Blonde On The Rocks (LP) 1976
- TBM-66 George Kawaguchi's The Big 4 -The Big 4 (LP) 1976
- TBM-67 Toshiyuki Miyama & The New Herd Sunday Thing (LP) 1976
- TBM-68 Tatsuya Takahasi & The Tokyo Union -Got The Spirit (LP) 1976
- TBM-69 Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio -Summertime (LP) 1976
- TBM-70 Toshiyuki Miyama & The New Herd -The World Of Shuko Mizuno (LP) 1976
- TBM-71 Shigeko Toya, Mari Nakamoto With The Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio -Shigeo & Mari (LP) 1976
- TBM-72 Kunio Ohta Quartet+1 -Free And Lovely (LP) 1976
- TBM-73 Hideo Ichikawa Trio -Tomorrow (LP) 1976
- TBM-74 Hideiko "Sleepy" Matsumoto Quartet -Sleepy (LP) 1976
- TBM-75 Sunao Wada Quintet+1 -Four Scenes (LP) 1976
- TBM-76 Isao Suzuki Sextet -Ako's Dream (LP) 1976
- TBM-77 Masaru Imada Trio -Standards (LP) 1976
- TBM-78 Isoo Fukui Quartet -Sunrise Sunset (LP) 1976
- TBM-1002.3 George Otsuka Quintet -In Concert (LP) 1973
- TBM-1004 Toshiyuki Miyama & The New Herd + All Star Guests -Shuko Mizuno's Jazz Orchestra '75" (LP) 1975
- TBM-1005 Tatsuya Takahashi and The Tokyo Union + 3 -Scandinavian Suite (LP) 1977
- TMB-2502 = TMB-2
- TBM-2515 = TBM-15
- TBM-2517 = TBM-17
- TBM-2524 = TBM-24
- TBM-2559 = TBM-59
- TBM-3001 Tatsuya Takahashi and The Tokyo Union -Maiden Voyage (LP) 1976
- TBM-3002 Kunio Ohta Quintet -My Back Page (LP) 1976
- TBM-3003 Kenji Mori Quartet -Firebird (LP) 1977
- TBM-3004 Fumio Karashima Trio -Gathering (LP) 1977
- TBM-3005 Mari Nakamoto With Shoji Yokouchi Trio/Sextet -Mari (LP) 1977
- TBM-3006 Yuji Imamura & Air (6) -Air (LP) 1977
- TBM-3007 Yoshio Otomo Quartet -Moon Ray (LP) 1977
- TBM-3008 Ayako Hosokawa With Tsuyoshi Yamamoto And The Strings -Mr. Wonderful (LP) 1977
- TBM-3009 Tsuyoshi Yamamoto With The Strings -Star Dust (LP) 1977
- TBM-5004 Tee & Company -Sonnet (LP) 1977
- TBM-5005 Ayako Hosokawa With The Masaru Imada Quartet -No Tears (LP) 1977
- TBM-5007 Masaru Imada Quartet -Remember Of Love (LP) 1978
- TBM-5008 Tee & Company -Spanish Flower (LP) 1977
- TBM-5040 Ushio Sakai - Blues Meeting
- TBM 5010 Bingo Miki & Inner Galaxy Orchestra
- TBM-5019 Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio -Live in Montreux (CD)
References
- Minor, William. Jazz Journeys to Japan. University of Michigan Press, 2004.
- Gerard, Charley. Jazz in Black and White. University of Michigan Press 1998.