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Cat: BBE 434CLP. Rel: 25 Jun 18
Jazz

Side 1 - Track 1. Koichi Matsukaze Trio - Earth Mother Side 1 - Track 2. Takeo Moriyama - North Wind Side 2 - Track 1. Tohru Aizawa Quartet - Dead Letter Side 2 - Track 2. Eiji Nakayama - Aya's Samba Side 3 - Track 1. Takao Uematsu - White Fire Side 3 - Track 2. George Otsuka Quintet - Sea Breeze Side 4 - Track 1. Shintaro Quintet - A Blind Man Side 4 - Track 2. Mitsuaki Katayma - Unknown Point Side 5 - Track 1. Karashima Fumio - Little Island Side 5 - Track 2. Kiyoshi Sugimoto - Long Neal Side 6 - Track 1. Takeo Moriyama - Kaze Side 6 - Track 2. Terumasa Hino Meets Reggie Workman - Ode To Workman

BBE latest "deep dive" into a widely underappreciated style focuses on a particularly fertile period in the history of Japan's "contemporary jazz" scene. Curated by renowned Japanese jazz diggers Tony Higgins and Mike Peden, J-Jazz focuses on material recorded and released between 1969 and '84, a period the label says represents a "golden age" for jazz in Japan. The compilation is both a serious history lesson and hugely enjoyable to listen to, featuring a mixture of U.S-influenced jazz-funk, fusion, post-modal and deep, spiritual improvisations. Naturally, all of the material has never been released outside of Japan before, with the vast majority of tracks being either ludicrously rare or sought-after. Simply essential, all told.