Shirley & Masuo, This is your long lost HairStylist........ Susan...... Remember me??????? Randy is here visiting in St.Collage....... Would love to hear from you?Susan

SHIRLEY IT'S PAM !!!!!!!!
WOULD LOVE TO HEAR BACK FROM YOU AFTER ALL THESE YEARS !!!!!!
MUCH HAS HAPPENED ....MUCH TO SHARE !!!!!
GOOD MUCH !!!!!

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Sali, thank you for linking to this site and letting us know of
your blog article about your recording with Masuo.

Dear Masuo,

Greetings! I wanted to let you know that it was a tremendous honor to meet you earlier this year at the studio. I also wanted to let you know that I've linked up to your site from my blog at http://www.pinkmanhattan.blogspot.com I hope it was OK. Best wishes on your next tour in Japan coming up this May. Fred says "hi". Love to Shirley.

Hello Louie,
"Good Morning" on CD is still in print in Japan.
The amazon.com online store in the US, for example, carries "Good Morning"
as an import item. (See the Yoshiaki Masuo search results.)

For "Song Is You and Me" and "Mellow Focus",
I can't think of any way you can get one, if you live outside of Japan.
It is hard to find used CDs of them.
These are relatively easy to find on used vinyl
in Japan, but maybe not outside.

How can I get old albums by yoshiaki masuo?
The song is you and me/ mellow focus/ good morning. I have been trying to get them but cannot find one.

I have remade an image file of the hand-written music copy, and replaced
the one on the music page. Its file size now is about 83 KB.

I have put up a sheet music image for Small Steps.
Please go to the Music page to view it.
The image file is rather heavy to download (223 KB).
Maybe I'll try making a smaller and clearer-image file later on.

Thanks!

Hello paul alcantara,
Masuo is now in Japan on tour and I am enjoying seeing him play
at several venues in Tokyo.
I got a copy of the sheet music of "Smalll Steps" from Masuo
so that I can put it up on the web. Please wait some more
days until I can find time to do the work.

Does anyone have the chord progression for 'Small Steps' from the 'Are You Happy Now' album?

RIGHT ON, THAT'S WHAT I FIGURED. THAT'S A MASUO TRAIT. I CAN LIVE WITH THAT. EACH TO HIS OWN IT'S ALL UNKNOWN.....

Hello John D. Masuo,
"Masuo" is a relatively uncommon Japanese family name.
So, what your father says may be true,
but there seems to be so many descendant(?) families.
They may now mostly be unconnected and unaware of each other.
There once was a post on the Japanese message board
from a young female singer whose last name was Masuo and
who hadn't known Yoshiaki before finding this site.
Yoshiaki Masuo's younger brother Motoaki Masuo is also
a guitarist, who has released five albums.

For your information, Mr. Y. Masuo is not a good correspondent; he seldom writes.

My dad said that all Masuo's from Japan are from one original family....There are a lot of Masuo's in HAWAII....I myself play a Gibson ES175D. And one day by accident, I spotted Yoshiaki's name. I still don't know for sure, but what a coincidence. I'm pretty busy right now, but I will research more later. Anyone have any further info please e-mail me. I'm in Portland,Oregon. But I did spend a lot of Light Years in the Bay area when it was really Turned On! Yoshiaki, if you read this send me an E-mail and I will send you my telephone number.......John..7/05/1949..Honolulu, Hawaii.

Thank you for your post, Rick.
Yes, the Les Paul you saw in "Live at Laren" 1973 is a '59 model. Masuo still owns it.
This site currently has only Japanese pages about his instruments,
but I'll try to find time to make English pages hopefully in the near future.
The Les Paul Masuo first got was a black custom model (the photo is
from Masuo's second album titled "24" in 1970) .
He sold the black one and bought the cherry sun burst '59 model.
The latter (cherry sun burst) one survived a water accident that flooded Masuo's
recording studio at basement level into a pool in 1994.
See photos taken in 1978 and in 1992 or 93 with his Les Paul.
You can listen to Masuo play this Les Paul in his recent albums
"Are You Happy Now" and "Just Like Old Times".

Although the cover art of "Are You Happy Now" shows Masuo playing
the Gibson ES-175 (hollow archtop), he recorded the album using the Les Paul.
The cover jacket makes you expect to hear the ES-175 played on the album,
and even after listening to it, most people do not doubt it.

Hello iwan,
The song "Minor Samba" was first recorded on the album "Mellow Focus,"
which was released in 1982. I love the tune, too.
Later, it was recorded for the album "Just Like Old Times" in 1992.
I wonder which one you have heard...perhaps on "Mellow Focus"?
In the Mellow Focus version you hear electric keyboard.
This recording gives a sort of light and mellow feel. On the other hand
in Just Like Old Times, the tune is played in slower tempo and
in a more melancholic way, with Sadao Watanabe's alto saxophone featured.
Just Like Old Times was remixed and reissued in 2002. It has become difficult
to find a copy on sale in Japan, but amazon.com in the US seems to carry it.
Mellow Focus went out of print long before. Its CD version was released as early
as in 1983. In spite of the album's popularity among fans, it hasn't
come out again since then. So the CD version of "Mellow Focus" is
nowadays traded at extremely high prices in net auction markets.

(My deep condolences to all those affected by the recent devastating
earthquake and tsunami in your region.)

Greetings Yoshiaki

I recently obtained a video of Sonny Rollins Live in Laren 1973; marvelous band and wonderful performance. I was of course thinking about Sonny when I bought this video, but the pleasant surprise was discovering your excellent guitar work here as well.

I was curious about the guitar you were using; it looks like an original '58 or '59 Gibson Les Paul. As you probably know, these are insanely rare and expensive nowadays. Do you remember any details about that instrument, and do you perhaps still have it?

Thanks

dear Mr Masuo

my name is Iwan from Indonesia.
i was looking for one of your song "minor samba" where is the album contain with this song ?
the song was very very inspirational, very charm.
why the great oldies songs from japanise musicians never release on cd ?

GOD bless all of your family.