J Jazz - Free And Modern Jazz Albums From Japan 1954 - 1988 | Book Containing 1 X Cd

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 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 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

Tracks

1~1~Philosopher's Stone - Tohru Aizawa Quartet
1~2~Love Talken - Kohsuke Mine
1~3~Little B's Poem - Hideto Sasaki, Toshiyuki Sekine Quartet + 1
1~4~Take - Takeo Moriyama
1~5~Takeuma - Makoto Terashita Meets Harold Land
1~6~Dog's Dance - Miyasaka + 5
1~7~Future On You - Shintaro Quintet
1~8~Blue Road - Masaru Imada Trio + 1
1~9~Zekatsuma Selbst - Koichi Matsukaze Trio + Toshiyuki Daitoku
1~10~Rerev (Extended Version - Live) - Hideyasu Terakawa Quartet

Details

Catalogue Number: BBE634BK
Format: CD
Artist: Higgins, Tony
Release Date: 31 May 2024
Genre: Jazz
Label: BBE MUSIC
Distributor: Rocket Group