Michael Fremer reviews Yuko Mabuchi Trio Volumes 1 and 2 on vinyl in the April 2019 issue of Stereophile. 

“I played the spectacularly natural sounding Yuko Mabuchi Trio (2 45rpm LPs, Yarlung YAR88157-161V).  The sound quality of this set by a jazz piano trio, recorded live to tape with an AKG C24 stereo tube microphone, reveals all.  The sounds of Mabuchi’s piano, Del Atkins‘s double bass, and Bobby Breton‘s drums is stellar in every way, but especially the piano, an instrument whose sound is very hard to capture convincingly. The overall transparency and sense of three-dimensional space is intense and sensational.  And Mabuchi is tremendously talented–this is one audiophile recording in which the talent is commensurate with the sound quality.”

Michael Fremer is one of the most important vinyl reviewers in the world and his comments become legends.  Congratulations Yuko, Del and Bobby! And congratulations to Yuko Mabuchi Trio vinyl executive producers Craig & Diane Martin. 

Yarlung released this album in CD and High Res PCM formats thanks to executive producer Randy Bellous, and on NativeDSD thanks to Claude Cellier at Merging Technologies.