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.
BBE Logo Sweater
£45 GBP
The Craig Charles Trunk Of Funk Vol. 3 –
2 x 12" Vinyl Album
Craig Charles
£30 GBP
The Craig Charles Trunk Of Funk Vol. 3 –
CD
Craig Charles
£14 GBP
Roots Funkadelia –
CD
Remi Kabaka
£14 GBP
Roots Funkadelia –
LP
Remi Kabaka
£28 GBP
The Architecture of Oppression Part 2 –
Double Vinyl LP
The Brkn Record
£30 GBP
Summertime / Sunshine Girl –
Summertime / Sunshine Girl 12" Vinyl (Only 200 Pressed to Vinyl)
Rhythm Rhyme Revolution
£20 GBP
Sugar Honey Iced Tea! –
2LP
musclecars
£30 GBP
Grupo Ébano –
2LP
Grupo Ébano
£28 GBP
From the Fire –
Vinyl LP
Audrey Powne
£28 GBP
Altera Vita –
CD
Alina Bzhezhinska and Tony Kofi
£14 GBP
Altera Vita –
LP
Alina Bzhezhinska and Tony Kofi
£28 GBP
Good Morning Sunshine –
Limited Edition 7" only 50 available
Magic Number
£20 GBP
Klinkhamer Records Vol. 2 Compiled by Michel Veenstra – Double Vinyl LP
£28 GBP
Song for Hope –
CD
Aki Takase Trio
£14 GBP
Song for Hope –
LP (200g Vinyl) Gatefold with Obi Strip
Aki Takase Trio
£30 GBP
Reminicent Suite –
CD
Mal Waldron
£15 GBP
Reminicent Suite –
Heavyweight 180g Vinyl LP with OBI Strip
Mal Waldron
£30 GBP
Matt Early & Lee Jeffries - Tribute To Flowers / Sandy Barber - I Think I'll Do Some Stepping (On My Own) (Opolopo Rework) – 12" - LIMITED 100 PRESSINGS - 1 per customer
Sold Out
Varia Instruments TTW10H Turntable Weight For 12" And 7" (Heavy Weight Edition)
£130 GBP
Varia Instruments - TTW10 Turntable Weight For 12" And 7"
£105 GBP
Airto & Flora - A Celebration: 60 Years - Sounds, Dreams & Other Stories –
3CD (with 44 page booklet)
Airto & Flora Purim
£35 GBP
Airto & Flora - A Celebration: 60 Years - Sounds, Dreams & Other Stories –
5LP Box Set (with 20 page booklet)
Airto & Flora Purim
£99 GBP
Airto & Flora - A Celebration: 60 Years - Sounds, Dreams & Other Stories –
Test Pressing (5LP) - Limited - Only 2 available
Airto & Flora Purim
£200 GBP
Liquid Love –
7" Vinyl
Roy Ayers
£14 GBP
J Jazz Vol. 4: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan - Nippon Columbia 1968 -1981 – 2CD
£20 GBP
J Jazz Vol. 4: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan - Nippon Columbia 1968 -1981 – Heavyweight 3LP with OBI Strip
£35 GBP
J Jazz Vol. 4: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan - Nippon Columbia 1968 -1981 – Test Pressing - (3LP) - Limited - Only 2 Available
Sold Out
Locus –
180g Vinyl LP with OBI Strip
Tatsuya Nakamura
£28 GBP
Locus –
CD
Tatsuya Nakamura
£14 GBP
Reference Point – 2LP
£28 GBP
Reference Point – CD
£14 GBP
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