Truly amazing homage to Rico Rodríguez as a sensei: the guy who was "there before". Rico goes to JAHpan and following The Way he comes into contact with worthy JAHpanese students. This precious album is a showcase only! Rico's many styles were demonstrated to different groups of musicians. These musical samurai cut through well. Ohyeshuharekrishna: we are left wishing for complete sets from each school.represented are from Man from Wareika to Selecters' Monkey Man to Rico's own teacher Don Drummond. Rico could well have spent a few years in JAHpan with these respectful fun students. Wish we had the complete Man from Wareika masterpiece from The Japa-Rico Super Session - am sure it's recorded. Lots of surprises - including japa-britized vershans of other Man From Wareika masterpiece compositions. Jump at this treasure: look at how difficult it is to get Augustus Pablo or Soft Machine Legacy or even JAHpan's own other Canterbury student/practitioners...
Ps Vocals by.... Rico.