J Jazz Vol. 4: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan - Nippon Columbia 1968 -1981

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Kaiol The Listening Party the other day triggered this spontaneous purchase, I am looking forward to the artwork as well.

kawlums Absolutely fantastic compilation of brilliantly composed and perfectly mastered tracks. Favorite track: Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun.

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The triple vinyl comes with 7,000 words of extensive sleeve notes.

Vinyl Tracklist

DISC 1
SIDE A
1. Exchange - Takeo Moriyama
2. The Ground For Peace - Jiro Inagaki & His Soul Media
SIDE B
1. Chakkiri-Bushi - Nobuo Hara and his Sharps & Flats, Hozan Yamamoto 2. Trial Road - Tomoki Takahashi
3. A Muddy Muffin - Masahiko Sato

DISC 2
SIDE C
1. Samba de Negrito - Takashi Mizuhashi & Herbie Hancock 2. Scramble - Hiromasa Suzuki
SIDE D
1. Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun - Nobuo Hara and his Sharps & Flats 2. Toppu - Shigeharu Mukai

DISC 3
SIDE E
1. Ogi Denju-shiki - Toshiyuki Miyama & His New Herd 2. Jones Street - Kiyoshi Sugimoto
3. Micky's Samba - Mikio Masuda
SIDE F
1. By The Red Stream - Hiromasa Suzuki, Jiro Inagaki & His Big Soul Media 2. Kaleidoscope (Edit) - Mickie Yoshino & Kazumi Watanabe

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2CD Tracklist with bonus tracks that are unavailable on the 3LP *
Comes with 7,000 words of extensive sleeve notes.

DISC 1
SIDE 1
1. Exchange - Takeo Moriyama
2. The Ground For Peace - Jiro Inagaki & His Soul Media
3. Chakkiri Bushi - Nobuo Hara and his Sharps & Flats, Hozan Yamamoto
4. Trial Road - Tomoki Takahashi
5. A Muddy Muffin - Masahiko Sato
6. Samba de Negrito - Takashi Mizuhashi & Herbie Hancock
7. Scramble - Hiromasa Suzuki
8. A Head Wind - Shigeharu Mukai Quintet *

DISC 2
SIDE 1
1. Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun - Nobuo Hara and His Sharps & Flats
2. Jones Street - Kiyoshi Sugimoto
3. By The Red Stream - Hiromasa Suzuki, Jiro Inagaki & Big Soul Media
4. Kaleidoscope (Edit) - Mickie Yoshino & Kazumi Watanabe
5. Ougi Denju-shiki - Toshiyuki Miyama and His New Herd
6. Toppu - Shigeharu Mukai
7. Mickey's Samba - Mikio Masuda
8. Macumba - Fumio Itabashi *

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NOTE: THIS IS A PREORDER ITEM - SHIPPING May 31st 2024

BBE Music is thrilled to present J Jazz: Free and Modern Jazz From Japan 1954-1988, a remarkable large-format book covering some of the deepest, rarest, and most innovative jazz music released anywhere in the post-war era. Compiled by Tony Higgins and Mike Peden, co-curators of BBE Music's acclaimed J Jazz Masterclass Series, the book also features a foreword by Japanese jazz icon, Terumasa Hino.

This is the first time a book of this type has been has been published outside of Japan and the first anywhere of this size and scale. It is a unique collection of over 500 albums of free and modern jazz recorded and released in Japan during a period of radical transformation and constant reinvention. An era that saw Japan return from the ravages of World War Two to become a global economic power and emerge as both a technological leader and an international cultural force.

Through a unique gallery of albums, J Jazz charts the development of jazz in Japan from the first stirrings of the modern jazz scene in the mid to late 1950s and on through the hard bop and modal jazz of the 1960s. It steers the reader into the radical directions of the 1970s when free jazz, fusion, post-bop, and jazz-funk opened up a growing number of Japanese jazz artists to a new global audience before consolidating in the mid to late 1980s with a musical scene that laid the path for the contemporary jazz generation to follow.

Over 500 full-colour sleeves from many of the leading names in Japanese jazz sit alongside rare and private pressings that tell a story of constant change and musical exploration. J Jazz includes profiles of several leading record labels such as East Wind, Frasco, King Records, and Nippon Columbia as well as critical independents such as Three Blind Mice, ALM, and Aketa’s Disk. J Jazz includes interviews with celebrated jazz photographer Tadayuki Naito, and pianist Tohru Aizawa, bandleader on the totemic spiritual jazz album, Tachibana Vol 1, as well as free-jazz record collector and jazz musician Mats Gustafsson.

The book also features a chapter on albums by non-Japanese artists that only received a Japanese release, with collectible, rare, and obscure releases by figures such as Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Mal Waldron, Steve Lacy, and Art Blakey. J Jazz includes Japanese jazz charts from some of the world's leading jazz DJs including Gilles Peterson, Toshio Matsuura, Paul Murphy, and Shuya and Yoshihiro Okino. Among the specialist content is a feature on obi strips by record dealer and Japanese jazz expert, Yusuke Ogawa, plus a special article on Japanese Blue Note albums.

Across its 300-plus pages, J Jazz includes a detailed introduction contextualising the music, tracing the story of Japan's fascination with jazz back before the war. It also features biographical information on many of the key artists involved in shaping the post- war Japanese jazz scene including Sadao Watanabe, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Masabumi Kikuchi, Masahiko Togashi, Terumasa Hino, Yosuke Yamashita, Fumio Itabashi, Masayuki Takayanagi, Takeo Moriyama, Isao Suzuki, and many more. ... more

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3LP Test Pressing - Includes track listing and sales notes

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1.	Takeo Moriyama - Exchange 11:55	buy track
2.	Jiro Inagaki & His Soul Media - The Ground For Peace 07:47	buy track
3.	Nobuo Hara and his Sharps & Flats, Hozan Yamamoto - Chakkiri Bushi 05:31	buy track
4.	Tomoki Takahashi - Trial Road 08:24	buy track
5.	Masahiko Sato - A Muddy Muffin 05:03	buy track
6.	Takashi Mizuhashi & Herbie Hancock - Samba de Negrito 10:30	buy track
7.	Hiromasa Suzuki - Scramble 07:39	buy track
8.	Shigeharu Mukai Quintet - A Head Wind 20:52	buy track
9.	Nobuo Hara and His Sharps & Flats - Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun 04:56	buy track
10.	Kiyoshi Sugimoto - Jones Street 13:09	buy track
11.	Hiromasa Suzuki, Jiro Inagaki & Big Soul Media - By The Red Stream 10:33	buy track
12.	Mickie Yoshino & Kazumi Watanabe - Kaleidoscope (Edit) 09:31	buy track
13.	Toshiyuki Miyama and His New Herd - 奥儀伝授式 Ougi Denju-shiki 02:55	buy track
14.	Shigeharu Mukai - 突風 Toppu 15:15
15.	Mikio Masuda - Mickey's Samba 04:43	buy track
16.	Fumio Itabashi - Macumba 13:55	buy track

about

This album is available digitally on Bandcamp and bbemusic.com exclusively.

With J Jazz volume 4, the BBE J Jazz Bullet Train continues its journey traversing the expansive landscape of modern Japanese jazz. Volume 4 is the latest in the universally praised compilation series exploring the best, rarest and most innovative jazz to emerge from the Far East. Please take your seats for a first-class ticket to J Jazz central.

This latest station stop off is with the famed Nippon Columbia label, one of the biggest labels in Japan, whose jazz output embraces every possible style imaginable. Focussing on the key years 1968-1981, J Jazz volume 4 sees compilers Tony Higgins and Mike Peden dig even deeper into their record collections and pull-out tracks that span styles ranging from solo to big band, jazz classical interpretations and heavy jazz rock, to febrile post-bop, white hot samba fusion, and modal psychedelic wig-outs.

J Jazz volume 4 features icons such as drum master Takeo Moriyama, keyboard magi Hiromasa Suzuki, Fumio Itabashi, and Masahiko Satoh, and guitar wizards Kazumi Watanabe and Kiyoshi Sugimoto, alongside big band maestros and innovators Nobuo Hara and his Sharps and Flats, and Toshiyuki Miyama’s New Herd. Thunderous basslines nestle alongside glistening runs of electric piano, bubbling synths and air-tight drumming as the heavy psychedelic modal blues of Jiro Inagaki flows with the infectious samba grooves of Takashi Mizuhashi featuring Herbie Hancock; Shigeharu Mukai’s fusion funk epics take the music to another level and Mikio Masuda’s driving keyboard rhythms brings the heat to an incendiary dancefloor zone.

With 7,000 words of extensive sleeve notes, J Jazz vol 4 comes in a triple 180g vinyl set inside a deluxe gatefold sleeve with obi strip plus a 4 page insert. The double CD features two bonus tracks not on the vinyl edition. Mastered at the Grammy-nominated Carvery Studio by Frank Merritt, this latest collection is a worthy successor to the preceding three volumes that have set the bar so high.

J Jazz is curated for BBE Music by Tony Higgins and Mike Peden.

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