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Selecting melodious and groovy crossover, fusion, and jazz-funk tracks from the Nippon Columbia catalog, including its sub-label Better Days, that City Pop...
Wewantsounds reissues Roy Haynes' 1971 LP Hip Ensemble, recorded in New York for Bob Shad's Mainstream Records and featuring Hannibal Marvin Peterson, George Adams, Teruo Nakamura, and Lawrence Kil...
Lewis, known for his own cool piano technique and sideman to the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Lester Young (what a line-up!), was a busy guy, primarily because he was t...
Recorded between trumpeter Freddie Hubbard’s better-known classics Red Clay and First Light, Straight Life is actually arguably Hubbard’s greatest recording. Hubbard, joined by an all-star group t...
Art Blakey, whose career spanned nearly 50 years of Black music history, exemplifies the timeless role of the drums in jazz. This Album of the Year LP, originally released in 1981, features the Jaz...
Yoshiko Sai’s Entire Discography to Be Released on Long-Awaited Colored Vinyl!
Yoshiko Sai, one of Japan’s most iconic singers of the 1970s, is set to have her entire catalog reissued on limited-e...
Yoshiko Sai’s Entire Discography to Be Released on Long-Awaited Colored Vinyl!
Yoshiko Sai, one of Japan’s most iconic singers of the 1970s, is set to have her entire catalog reissued on limited-ed...
The reissue of Jackie Magno’s 1st album, a Filipino female jazz singer who made her world debut for the first time in Japan, has been decided!
Chito Kawachi of The Happenings is in charge of arran...
20 YEARS SINCE VOL. 1 IN 2003. It is no exaggeration to say that "RELAXIN' WITH JAPANESE LOVERS" was the beginning of the Japanese lovers boom. In December last year, the reissue of VOL.1 and the l...
The compilation album "KJM COVERS", released to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Kyoto Jazz Massive's debut, is now available on vinyl! The works that Kyoto Jazz Massive has covered (including p...
The most widely known and iconic work of Shintaro Katsu is likely Zatoichi. This series gained popularity in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s and became internationally recognized after Takeshi Kit...
For over three decades, the Stone Alliance's debut album on Gene Perla's PM Records has been a record collector's commodity. An LP that evolved from the Rare Groove 1990s into a hallowed place in A...
Lover Man by the Archie Shepp Quartet featuring Annette Lowman was originally released in 1989. For this release tenor saxophonist Shepp was joined by pianist Dave Burrell, bassist Herman Wright, d...
Released in 1982, Heart & Soul is a collaboration between bassist Ron Carter and pianist Cedar Walton, two jazz giants renowned for their impeccable musicianship. The album showcases their exce...
The ultra-rare single released by Alpha Music in 1970, sung by Akira Ishikawa, known as a jazz drummer, has finally been revived after 54 years.
The title song, with Akira Ishikawa's bitter vocals,...
