S.P.O.R.T.S. (stylized as S•P•O•R•T•S) is the eleventh studio album by Japanese jazz fusion band T-Square, who was then known as The Square. It was released on March 5, 1986. This album is the first appearance of one of their most popular songs, "Takarajima" ("Treasure Island"), composed by Hirotaka Izumi, and is also the first studio appearance of first long-term drummer, Hiroyuki Noritake. Bassist Toyoyuki Tanaka later left the band after this album's tour, and would be replaced by Mitsuru Sutoh starting from the next album Truth. This is their first album to win a Japan Gold Disc Award.
Contents
Track listing
Sources
All songs published by CBS/Sony Music.
Personnel
T-Square
Masahiro Andoh: Electric and acoustic guitars
Takeshi Itoh: Alto saxophone, Lyricon and Digital Takecon-1
Hirotaka Izumi: Keyboards and synthesizers
Toyoyuki Tanaka: Electric and synthesized bass
Hiroyuki Noritake: Drums
Additional personnel
Jake H. Concepcion: Saxophone on track 2
Sumio Okada: Bass trombone on track 2
Eiji Arai: Trombone on track 2
Kenichiro Hayshi and Susumu Kazuhara: Trumpet on track 2
Production
Arranged by T-Square
Produced by Yasohachi Itoh; assisted by Taku Kanazawa
Recording engineers: Seigen Ono, Shingo Miyata
Assisted by Hiroshi Irie, Yashuhiko Ohta and Yohji Kawanishi
Mixed by Seigen Ono