Jive Jive

Jive Jive is the tenth album and the eighth studio album by Casiopea, recorded and released in 1983.

Jive Jive
Studio album by Casiopea
Released	November 30, 1983
Recorded	from September 12 to October 8, 1983
Studio	Townhouse Studio one, London
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	37:38
Label	Alfa Records ALR-28052
Producer	Kunihiko Murai
Casiopea chronology
Photographs (1983) Jive Jive (1983) The Soundgraphy (1984)

Description

After the release of Mint Jams, an album created to break into the European market, keyboardist Minoru Mukaiya traveled to Europe to show off the album. The band traveled to record in London, all members brought their instruments except for Sakurai, who left his "Milk-Bass" in Japan, and instead used a similar looking BB2000.

Track listing

Side A

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Sweat It Out"	-	Issei Noro	4:12
2.	"In the Pocket"	-	Akira Jimbo	3:37
3.	"Right from the Heart"	Steve Travell	Issei Noro	4:09
4.	"Step Daughter"	-	Minoru Mukaiya	3:43
5.	"Secret Chase"	-	Issei Noro	4:50
Total length:				20:31

Side B

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Fabby Dabby"	-	Issei Noro	3:53
2.	"Living on a Feeling"	Steve Travell	Akira Jimbo	4:20
3.	"S-E"	-	Issei Noro	5:05
4.	"What Can't Speak Can't Lie"	Gary Osborne	Issei Noro	3:49
Total length:				17:07

London Concert

On September 29th, during the recording session, Casiopea played a concert in London's Dominion Theatre. There was a LaserDisc released in the 1993, and a radio recording aired close to the concert date.

"Mid-Manhattan" was heavily extended, including drum and overdrive bass solos, reaching over 14 minutes in length.

No.	Title	Music	from album	Length
1.	"Looking Up"	Issei Noro	Photographs
2.	"Eyes of the Mind"	Issei Noro	Make Up City
3.	"Fruit Salad Sunday"	Akira Jimbo	Photographs
4.	"Black Joke"	Issei Noro	Casiopea
5.	"Spice Road"	Issei Noro	Photographs
6.	"Long Term Memory"	Issei Noro	Photographs
7.	"Dazzling"	Issei Noro	Photographs
8.	"Take Me"	Issei Noro	Super Flight
9.	"Sweat It Out"	Issei Noro
10.	"In The Pocket"	Issei Noro
11.	"Fabby Dabby"	Issei Noro
12.	"Mid-Manhattan"	Issei Noro	4x4
13.	"Space Road"	Issei Noro	Casiopea
14.	"Swear"	Issei Noro	Cross Point
15.	"Asayake"	Issei Noro	Super Flight
16.	"Galactic Funk"	Issei Noro	Cross Point

Personnel

CASIOPEA are

Issei Noro - Electric guitar (YAMAHA SG Original, SG-3000, SG-1000 Fretless), KORG Guitar Synthesizer, Linn Drum Computer, Percussion, Vocal (A3)

Minoru Mukaiya - Keyboards (YAMAHA GS-1, DX-7, CS-70M, Emulator, ROLAND Jupiter 6, Acoustic Piano)

Tetsuo Sakurai - Electric Bass ( YAMAHA BB-2000, Kramer DMZ-6000B)

Akira Jimbo - Drums (YAMAHA YD-9000 RG, Simmons V), Linn Drum Computer, Amdeck Percussion Synthesizer

• Ki-Ki Dee - Vocal (B4)
• Mae Mckenna - Vocal (A3, B1, B2)
• Jackie Challenok - Vocal (B1, B2)
• Lorenza Johnson - Vocal (B1, B2)
• Guy Barker - Trumpet
• Stuart Brooks - Trumpet
• Phill Todo - Sax
• Pete Beachill - Trombone
• Richard Niles - Brass arrangement (B1)
• Drachen Theaker - Tabla (A5)

Production

• Executive Producer - Kunihiko Murai
• Assistant Executive Producer - Edward Leaman
• Engineer - Richard Manwaring
• Assistant Engineer - Steve Travell
• Mastering - Gordon Vicary
• A&R Director - Shunsuke Miyazumi
• Art Director - Kaoru Watanabe
• Cover Designers - Kaoru Watanabe, Hiroyasu Yoshioka, Katsunori Hironaka
• Cover drawing - Issei Noro
• Remastering engineer - Kouji Suzuki (2016)

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Note
Japan	November 30, 1983	Alfa Records	30cmLP	ALR-28052	stereo
	January 25, 1984		12cmCD	38XA-8
	January 25, 1987			32XA-113
	March 21, 1992			ALCA-280
	July 27, 1994			ALCA-9010
	August 29, 1998			ALCA-9205
	January 23, 2002	Village Records	remastered 12cmCD	VRCL-2210	DSD, LP paper jacket
	February 14, 2002			VRCL-2230	DSD
	May 27, 2009	Sony Music Direct		MHCL-20012	DSD, Blu-spec CD, LP paper jacket
	February 3, 2016		Music download	1076213598	iTunes Store[1]
				4582290414034	mora AAC-LC 320 kbps[2]
				A1003862499	Recochoku AAC 320 kbps[3]
				B01B5AWAGU	Amazon.com[4]
				Bps25slofwqogorkypskuwaxjdm	Google Play Music[5]
	July 27, 2016			4582290418599	mora DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[6]
				smj4582290418599	e-onkyo DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[7]
				11181	HD-music DSD 2.8 MHz/1bit[8]
				4582290418582	mora FLAC 96.0 kHz/24bit[9]
				A2000673647	Recochoku FLAC 96 kHz 24bit[10]
				smj4582290418582	e-onkyo FLAC 96 kHz 24bit[11]
				11198	HD-music FLAC 96 kHz/24bit[12]
				c16cc586d967dbd4f888	AWA 320kbps[13]
	November 10, 2016			6qdYo8v6HzG1t2TRtnt8QM	Spotify[14]

See also

• 1983 in Japanese music