Last week, I posted on top Japanese big bands that accompanied touring American singers in the early 1960s as well as a couple of top ones today. Your response was huge, so I decided to feature ...

9.Maximum the Hormone With equal parts death grind, groove rock, jazz and alternative metal, the band uses lots of traditional Japanese melodic pop interludes, with both clean singing and growling.

Members of Waseda University's jazz club march down the Honch during the annual jazz and rock festival in Yokosuka, Japan, on Nov. 4, 2024. (Alex Wilson/Stars and Stripes) On the QT ...

The Funky Freqs came up playing the post-Corea jazz-rock style known as free funk — music with fewer complicated melodies and more earthy grooving. Their new album is Hymn of the Third Galaxy.

From 'Shakuhachi Rock' By Minoru Muraoka There's precious little Muraoka information on the web, and the majority of his albums list only song titles in English. What does exist in English comes ...

As one of the better jazz-funk bands of the last two decades, The New Mastersounds keep up a relentless schedule, stopping through the area at least once a year. They formed in Leeds, in the ...

In some cases it was cheaper. In other situations, countries had regulations that insisted their own musicians were hired for the job. Like Australia, Japan had top-notch big-band players and still do ...