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Emphasis On Jazz were a sort-of supergroup in the jazz field, founded by ex-Gimmicks reed player Urban Hansson along with Berndt Egerbladh in the mid-70s. Completing the line-up on this their first proper Emphasis On Jazz album were well credited drummer/percussionist Jan Bandel, bassist Thomas Östergren (ex-Barabbas and sometime member of Oriental Wind), and drumming Icelander Pétur Östlund (Communication and once an original member of Icelandic 60s band Thor's Hammer whose ”I Don't Care” has become a freakbeat classic).
”Tabaruzaka” is lightly fusion indebted contemporary jazz with Japanese shadings. It's not particularly memorable as a whole, but it has some nice textures mainly thanks to Jan Bandel's Celtic harp, vibraphone and tablas. I also must say that Thomas Östergren's fretless bass is surprisingly well applied – it's an instrument I'm not too fond of otherwise.
Emphasis On Jazz made one further album in 1984. Fittingly enough, a Japanese pressing of ”Tabaruzaka” also exists, housed in a much better cover (see above).
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