J Jazz Vol. 4: Deep Modern Jazz From Japan

$50.00

New Vinyl

197188693732

Disc 1
Exchange – Takeo Moriyama
The Ground for Peace – Jiro Inagaki & His Soul Media
Chakkiri-Bushi – Nobuo Hara and his Sharps & Flats, Hozan Yamamoto
Trial Road – Tomoki Takahashi
A Muddy Muffin – Masahiko Satoh
Disc 2
Samba de Negrito – Takashi Mizuhashi & Herbie Hancock
Scramble – Hiromasa Suzuki
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun – Nobuo Hara and His Sharps & Flats
Toppu – Shigeharu Mukai
Disc 3
Ougi Denju-shiki – Toshiyuki Miyama and His New Herd
Jones Street – Kiyoshi Sugimoto
Mickey's Samba – Mikio Masuda
By the Red Stream – Hiromasa Suzuki, Jiro Inagaki & Big Soul Media
Kaleidoscope (Edit) – Mickie Yoshino & Kazumi Watanabe

A deep dive into the modern jazz catalogue of one of Japan's leading major labels, Nippon Columbia covering a crucial period of musical creativity and innovation between 1968 - 1981.

Features tracks from a diverse pantheon of J Jazz icons including; Takeo Moriyama, Fumio Itabashi, Shigeharu Mukai, Nobuo Hara Sharps and Flats, Jiro Inagaki and many more.

Extensive sleeve notes and artists biographies written by co-curators Tony Higgins and Mike Peden.

All music sourced from the master tapes and mastered by the Grammy-nominated Carvery Studio.