"Brass and Bamboo"
Exciting Big-Band Arrangements of Pop Standards
 Fused with Delicate Sounds of the Orient
Conducted and arranged by
Tak Shindo

Side One: 1/ Caravan
2/ Poinciana
3/ The Moon Was Yellow
4/ Skylark
5/ No Place To Go
6/ Bali Ha'i 

Side Two: 1/ The Song Of Delilah
2/ Flamingo
3/ I'm Beginning To See The Light
4/ The Lamp Is Low
5/ Love Is A Many Splendered Thing
6/ Brass And Bamboo

Here is a Blending of the Music of the East and West........ 
Big-Band Dance Arrangements
Spiced with Exotic Instrumental Sounds of the Orient........

In this sparkling debut as a Capitol recording artist, young 
Tak Shindo offers a brand new concept in music, combining 
exotic sounds of ancient Japanese instruments with modern 
big band orchestrations, in tempos and moods that range from 
 ballads to swing. Here is Brass and Bamboo,Tak Shindo's 
new Japanese-American plan for musical enjoyment.             
As American as "Ichiban" and as Japanese as "It Swings"
Released in 1959 on the Capitol label 
T-1345  St-1345

"Accent on Bamboo"
Big Band Standards with an Oriental Flavour
Arranged and conducted by
Tak Shindo

Side One: 1/ Cherokee
2/ One Fine Day
3/ Chattanooga Choo Choo
4/ I Gotta Have You
5/ It's So Peaceful In The Country
6/ Portrait In Blue 

Side Two: 1/ A String Of Pearls
2/ Stumbling
3/ Happy In Love
4/ For You
5/ Festival In Springtime
6/ Kiss Me Again 

Here's dynamic big-band swing with an exotic new sound that's 
not enterely Occidental. In fact, it's delightfully Oriental, as 
Tak Shindo cleverly blends the music of East and West in this 
fine collection of brilliant dance arrangements.

The honorable ancestors of most of the oriental
instruments heard in this album came to Japan
from China more than one thousand years ago. 
Some were in use as early as the sixth century, 
when, under the Emperor Mommu, music was 
firmly established in the land of the rising sun.
Released in 1959 on the Capitol label 
T-1433  St-1433