Mint Jams

Mint Jams is the seventh album and the second live album by Japanese jazz-fusion band Casiopea, released on May 12, 1982. The album's title is an arrangement of the band members' first and last initials.

Mint Jams
Live album by
Casiopea
ReleasedMay 12, 1982
RecordedFebruary 23&24, 1982
VenueChuo Kaikan Hall, Tukiji Tokyo
GenreJazz fusion
Length36:16
LabelAlfa Records
ALF-85869
ProducerShunsuke Miyazumi
Casiopea chronology
Cross Point
(1981)		 Mint Jams
(1982)		 4x4
(1982)

Description

Live sound recordings from a two-day performance at Tokyo Kaikan were used, and subsequently remixed at Alfa Studio 'A' by Shunsuke Miyazami, Satoshi Nakao, Norio Yoshizawa and Atsushi Saito. The songs were specifically re-arranged with the studio work in mind, and no dubbing was performed in the studio for segments such as the outro to 'Time Limit'. To achieve the likeness of a studio quality sound, the audience noise from the Chuo Kaikan live performances were cut from the mix, except for during the bass guitar and drum solos in 'Domino Line', and the rag-time piano breakdown in 'Swear'.

Besides the title of the album being an arrangement of the band members' first and last initials, it derives the word 'mint' to imply 'a mint condition' and 'high performance'. The word 'jams' describe their live performance of which the source material was taken from.

Mint Jams was originally planned to be a compilation album with 'best-of' Casiopea songs

This album is widely considered to be Casiopea's best, as it combines their live dynamism and precision with careful studio work.

Mint Jams was also Casiopea's first album to mainly feature the Yamaha GS-1 FM synthesizer, operated by Minoru Mukaiya. This synthesizer was subsequently used in many of their live-performances.

The European version of Mint Jams was released in the same year as the Japanese release. The following year, in 1983, when Casiopea visited London to record the album 'JIVE JIVE', a promotional live concert was held.

The album had gained notoriety online after a 4chan thread went viral. The thread wrote of a user receiving a vinyl copy of the album along with some tea that he enjoyed.

Track listing

All music is composed by Issei Noro.

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Take Me"4:51
2."Asayake"4:58
3."Midnight Rendezvous"4:57
4."Time Limit"2:38
Total length:17:24
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Domino Line"7:22
2."Tears of the Star"4:29
3."Swear"6:48
Total length:18:39

Personnel

Casiopea:

Production:

  • Shunsuke Miyazumi – producer
  • Satoshi Nakao – associate producer
  • Norio Yoshizawa – engineer
  • Atsushi Saito – assistant engineer
  • Toshinao Tsukui – art director
  • Masao Hiruma – illustration and design
  • Kouji Suzuki – remastering engineer (2016 reissue)

Release history
Region Date Label Format Catalog Note
Japan March 21, 1982 Alfa Records 30cmLP ALF-85869[1] stereo
United Kingdom 1982
Netherlands 1982
Sweden 1982 Sonet Records SNTF-924
Japan December 21, 1983 Alfa Records 12cmCD 38XA-5
1984 30cmLP ALR-20002
Sweden 1984 Sonet Records 12cmCD SNCD 924
Japan January 25, 1987 Alfa Records 32XA-112
March 21, 1992 ALCA-277
July 27, 1994 ALCA-9007
July 23, 1998 ALCA-9202
January 23, 2002 Village Records remastered 12cmCD VRCL-2207 DSD, LP paper jacket
February 14, 2002 VRCL-2227 DSD
May 27, 2009 Sony Music Direct MHCL-20009 DSD, Blu-spec CD, LP paper jacket
December 10, 2014 HYBRID SA-CD DYCL-446 DSD, ORDER MADE FACTORY
February 3, 2016 Music download 1076210122 iTunes Store[2]
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