Japan’s leading big band, Sharps & Flats, created a unique work featuring 22-year-old up-and-coming pianist, Takehiko Honda. The sound of an electric piano rolling comfortably over the powerfu...
Yokobue player Michiko Akao’s 1983 publication “Yokobue: Michiko Akao’s World”, which was also published in the “New Age Music Disc Guide” (published by DU BOOKS), is reproduced for the first time...
Kifu Mitsuhashi studied with Soufu Sasaki of the Kinko-style shakuhachi in 1968. He became a member of Pro Musica Nipponia and participated in many concerts both in Japan and overseas after comple...
WRWTFWW Records and MEG Museum (Geneva) present the first new solo album by renowned Japanese percussionist Midori Takada in 23 years, Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter. Recorded in a live s...
Pharoah ‘Farrell’ Sanders (born 1940) is a leading figure in the world of jazz and one of the last living legends with connections to players like Sun Ra and John Coltrane. His tenor saxophone pl...
Don't miss your chance to have a vinyl of every Niagara record!
50th anniversary boxset containing all three Niagara albums, released in a limited edition of 500 copies, housed in a wooden Box –...
WeWantSounds delivers a Freddie Hubbard classic live in 1973. This 2LP is an RSD release that we're very happy to deliver to our jazz-loving customers!
OFFICIAL RSD 2022 release. First-ever releas...
We love the film Get Carter as well as it's soundtrack. And we're not the only fans of this soundtrack either, the legendary DJ Harvey put the track Hallucinations on his Sarcastic Mix Vol. 3. That...
Sai Yoshiko returned from a 30 year absence to release this LP on CD in 2008. Now P-Vine reissues it as part of their 2021 Sai Yoshiko repressings. This LP shows that while she may have been out ...
Black Editions delivers the first-ever vinyl edition of Homo Sacer, Japanese saxophonist Makoto Kawashima’s debut album and the final release by the legendary P.S.F. Records. It comes housed in a...
This 7" single collects two Katsuhisa Hattori tracks from "The Horizon of Happiness" soundtrack. If you're not familiar with this soundtrack, it is probably because it is super rare. Your favorit...
Composer and arranger of Hiroshi Suzuki's "Romance" and Jiro Inagaki's "Breeze," Hiromasa Suzuki is a musician who had worked extensively in the Japanese entertainment industry, not only in jazz, b...
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 anyw...
Wewantsounds announce the first international reissue of Ayako Shinozaki's Music Now For Harp released in 1974 by Nippon Columbia. The LP was released on the label's cult "Master Sonic" series and ...
Shizuko Kasagi was a Japanese jazz singer and actress. At the peak of her fame in the immediate post-war era, she was known as the “Queen of the Boogie-Woogie”.
Pressed on Black Vinyl
Compilatio...
Masao Yagi has been active since the dawn of modern jazz in Japan, and has greatly contributed to the development of the scene as a pianist/composer/arranger. His first album “Playing Thelonious Mo...
Originally released on CD and Cassette in 1998, this awesome record is finally being reissued on vinyl for the first time ever!
Originally released in 1998
Pressed on Black Vinyl
Produced and wr...
After taking a hiatus from her music career in 1979, Yoshiko Sai did not perform on stage until 2014, but in 2015 she held her first solo live performance ever. This album is the first record to i...
We are happy to continue our series of Electric Bird reissues in collaboration with King Record with the a killer jazz-funk release, saxophonist Toshiyuki Honda's Burnin' Waves, originally released...
The second album from Cantaro Ihara is finally here!
Deftly weaving everything from 70’s soul to AOR to city pop into his sound, Cantaro Ihara makes pitch-perfect groove-forward pop music. With hi...
