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J Jazz Volume 2 – Deep Modern Jazz from Japan 1969 – 1983

by Tony Higgins & Mike Peden

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    14 track triple vinyl. Contains tracks unavailable on the digital release. NOTE- THE DOWNLOAD OF THE ALBUM ONLY CONTAINS THE 5 DIGITAL EP TRACKS.
    (***not available with digital download)

    VINYL TRACKLIST
    Makoto Terashita meets Harold Land - Dragon Dance
    Nobuo Hara and His Sharps & Flats Orchestra - Little Giant***
    Mabumi Yamaguchi Quartet - Distant Thunder***
    Hideto Sasaki- Toshiyuki Sekine Quartet +1 - Stop Over
    Miyasaka + 5 - Animal's Garden
    Electro Keyboard Orchestra - Mother Of The Future***
    Hiroshi Matsumoto and Hideo Ishikawa Quartet - Serenade To A Dimly Lit Street***
    George Kawaguchi Big Four - Vietnam***
    Kohsuke Mine Quintet - Daguri***
    Makoto Terashita - Dai Hosaku (Great Harvest)***
    Teru Sakamoto Trio plus One - Teru-Teru Bozu (Black Keys)***
    Takashi Miyasaka Quintet - Straight Road
    Toshiyuki Miyama & The New Herd With Masahiko Sato - Fallout***
    Akira Miyazawa - Brown Trout***

    Includes unlimited streaming of J Jazz Volume 2 – Deep Modern Jazz from Japan 1969 – 1983 via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Book/Magazine

    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.
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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £7 GBP  or more

     

  • Double CD Album
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Beautifully presented double album, containing extensive liner notes written by Tony Higgins and Mike Peden.
    The CD contains 9 tracks which are unavailable digitally!!
    Tracklist
    CD1
    01. Makoto Terashita meets Harold Land - Dragon Dance
    02. Nobuo Hara and His Sharps & Flats Orchestra - Little Giant
    03. Mabumi Yamaguchi Quartet - Distant Thunder
    04. Hideto Sasaki- Toshiyuki Sekine Quartet +1 - Stop Over
    05. Miyasaka + 5 - Animal's Garden
    06. Electro Keyboard Orchestra - Mother Of The Future
    07. Hiroshi Matsumoto and Hideo Ishikawa Quartet - Serenade To A Dimly Lit Street
    08. Koichi Matsukaze - The Original Bill
    CD2
    01. George Kawaguchi Big Four - Vietnam
    02. Kohsuke Mine Quintet - Daguri
    03. Makoto Terashita - Dai Hosaku (Great Harvest)
    04. Teru Sakamoto Trio plus One - Teru-Teru Bozu (Black Keys)
    05. Takashi Miyasaka Quintet - Straight Road
    06. Toshiyuki Miyama & The New Herd With Masahiko Sato - Fallout
    07. Akira Miyazawa - Brown Trout

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Following the sell-out success of our landmark compilation, J Jazz: deep modern jazz from Japan 1969-1984, BBE Records is thrilled to present another exploration into the very finest Japanese modern jazz.

J Jazz 2 builds on the solid foundation of the first compilation and sees co-compilers Tony Higgins and Mike Peden once again pick choice sections from their own record collections. They present a deep dive into an intoxicating and beguiling range of styles: from cinematic roaring big-band (Little G by Nobuo Hara) and sparse minimal acoustic funk (Teru Teru Bozo by Teru Sakomoto), to deep spiritual modal epics (Dragon Dance by Makoto Terashita and Harold Land) and funk fusion (Mother of the Future by Electro Keyboard Orchestra). J Jazz 2 delivers more astonishing high quality jazz that will appeal the old school hard-core jazz head as much as those digging the current sounds of the current vibrant jazz explosion in the UK and USA.

The specially chosen tracks on J Jazz volume two span across 25 years of Japanese musical progression and invention. From the elegiac stark beauty of Serenade to a Dimly Lit Street and the modal vortex of Daguri, to the fierce post-bop freedom of Bull Trout and the mid-tempo bossa lilt of Vietnam, there is enough here to satisfy the most curious and demanding jazz fan seeking something extra special. J Jazz 2 is available across all formats

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released September 6, 2019

Tony Higgins & Mike Peden, BBE

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