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Various Artists - J Jazz Volume 4: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan the Nippon Columbia Label 1968-1981 '2023

J Jazz Volume 4: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan the Nippon Columbia Label 1968-1981
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Album name J Jazz Volume 4: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan the Nippon Columbia Label 1968-1981
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Date 2023
GenreJazz
Play time 2:33:14
Format / Bitrate Stereo 2429 Kbps / 96 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
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Size 3.26 GB
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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. 

Tracklist:
1.01 - Takeo Moriyama - Exchange (11:55)
1.02 - Jiro Inagaki and His Soul Media - The Ground for Peace (7:47)
1.03 - Nobuo Hara and His Sharps & Flats, and Hozan Yamamoto - Chakkiri-Bushi
(5:35)
1.04 - Tomoki Takahashi - Trial Road (8:27)
1.05 - Masahiko Satoh - A Muddy Muffin (5:06)
1.06 - Takashi Mizuhashi & Herbie Hancock - Samba de negrito (10:32)
1.07 - Hiromasa Suzuki - Scramble (7:41)
1.08 - Nobuo Hara And His Sharps & Flats - Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
(4:58)
1.09 - Shigeharu Mukai - Toppu (15:17)
1.10 - Toshiyuki Miyama & His New Herd - Ougi Denjushiki (A Ceremony to Give
Instruction the Secret) - Yokai Kappa Konnichi Izukoni Sumunari (Where Does
Kappa Live Now?) (2:58)
1.11 - Kiyoshi Sugimoto - Jones Street (13:12)
1.12 - Mikio Masuda - Mickey's Samba (4:47)
1.13 - Hiromasa Suzuki & Jiro Inagaki and Big Soul Media - By the Red Stream
(10:36)
1.14 - Kazumi Watanabe & Mickie Yoshino - Kaleidoscope (Edit) (9:35)
1.15 - Shigeharu Mukai - A Head Wind (20:53)
1.16 - Fumio Itabashi - Macumba (13:55)

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