Don Friedman and Eiji Nakayama Duo had a newcomer from 1988
in the person of Eliot Zigmund.
The new group Special Trio made a sense of tour.
Eliot was a member of the trio of Bill Evans (piano)
and pure bred New Yorker, Good personality.






The trio enjoyed a full house in Koide, Niigata and other townships wherever we went.

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Globetrotting musicians! Performance was sublime!

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A piece of recording was titled �gLegend of the Lake�h and released in September, 1989.



In the autumn of the following year the album was good sales,
so we gave the second concert tour.




Welcome home�h was uttered by people who came.
Unforgettable words still staying in my ears.




After the concert we had an autograph session in the lobby.
As I today listen to the live recording of that evening.
I feel like thinking that our trio with Don, Eliot,
and I had the very summit of our performance as a trio!



put I an end to the three years activity the trio of three years,
and went to assembling the New
York quartet for my evolution as a musician.