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v/a - j jazz: deep modern jazz from japan 1969-1984 - bbe - vinyl

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Genre: Jazz

1. Koichi Matsukaze Trio - Earth Mother
2. Takeo Moriyama Quartet with Shigeharu Mukai - North Wind
3. Tohru Aizawa Quartet - Dead Letter
4. Eiji Nakayama - Aya's Samba
5. Takao Uematsu - White Fire
6. George Otsuka Quintet - Sea Breeze
7. Shintaro Quintet - A Blind Man
8. Mitsuaki Katayama - Unknown Point
9. Fumio Karashima - Little Island
10. Kiyoshi Sugimoto - Long Neal
11. Takeo Moriyama - Kaze
12. Terumasa Hino Meets Reggie Workman - Ode to Workman

BBE uncovers some of the most sought after and rare material from the 1969-1984 period and pulls together key artists who shaped the post- war modern jazz scene in Japan.

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‘J Jazz' includes obscure and sought after rarities like the bass-driven power jazz of Koichi Matsukaze’s ‘Earth Mother’, the holy grail rarity of Aizawa Tohru Quartet’s ‘Dead Letter’ and the loping majesty of Takeo Moriyama’s ‘North Wind’. This collection takes the listener into deep spiritual jazz, post-modal impressionism and fierce dance-floor fusion with material from artists and composers whose names are generally only known to committed collectors of Japanese jazz.