An Insatiable High is the third studio album by jazz fusion guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka, released on Kitty Records in Japan in 1977. The album features many big LA musicians such as Harvey Mason, Chuck Rainey, and Lee Ritenour, with performances from the American R&B and jazz group Tower of Power, and vocal performances from American session musician Jim Gilstrap.

• Limited Edition
• Vinyl edition from HMV / Universal Japan
• Mastered and Pressed in Japan!
• Includes OBI Strip

Musicians:

Masayoshi Takanaka – guitar, string arrangement (4), composer
Lee Ritenour – guitar
Abraham Laboriel – bass guitar (1, 4, 6)
Chuck Rainey – bass guitar (2, 3, 5, 7)
Patrice Rushen – keyboards (1–4, 6, 7)
Jun Fukamachi – keyboards (3, 5), string arrangement (2)
Harvey Mason – drums (1, 3–6)
Ed Greene – drums (2, 7)
Shuichi Murakami – drums (4)
Motoya Hamaguchi – percussion (1, 3–5)
Steve Forman – percussion (1, 3–6)
Paulinho Da Costa – percussion (2, 3, 5, 7)
Elise Krentzel – lyrics (1)
Roy Alfred – lyrics (4)
Julia Tillman Waters – backup vocals (1, 4, 6)
Maxine Anderson – backup vocals (1, 4, 6)
Maxine Willard Waters – backup vocals (1, 4, 6)
Jim Gilstrap – backup vocals (4)
Katz Hoshi – string arrangement (7)

Tower of Power

Emilio Castillo – tenor saxophone
Lenny Pickett – tenor saxophone
Steve Kupka – baritone saxophone
Greg Adams – trumpet, horns arrangement (1, 4, 5)
Mic Gillette – trumpet

Additional personnel and production

Katsuya Yasumuro – executive producer
Tokio Shibata – production manager
Bob Stone – recording
Teruaki Kitagawa – recording
Teruaki Kitagawa – mixing
Isao Sakai – design
Masayoshi Sukita – photography
Hiroshi Tanaka – management
Naomi Niimura – coordinator
Olivia Page – coordinator

Track Listing:

01. Sexy Dance
02. Malibu
03. An Insatiable High
04. E.S.P.
05. M 5
06. Sundrops
07. Good (Bad?) Old Days

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