In 1977, prolific Japanese saxophonist Sadao Watanabe began recording a series of jazz fusion albums supervised, for the most part, by pianist, arranger and GRP wunderkind, Dave Grusin. A hugely ...

After two Grammy nominations and two gold albums, the band Hiroshima has sold over four million albums worldwide.

J Jazz -Deep Modern Jazz from Japan 1969-1984 BBE 2018 This is the first compilation of modern Japanese jazz on BBE that set things in motion. Higgins and Peden have made a tasty selection of cuts ...

Sharing a common ancestor, jazz and hip-hop ought to be a natural fit — but nobody has ever quite made this fusion feel like theirs.Enter Kassa Overall, the soft-spoken drummer, producer and M.C ...

The 10 Best Jazz Albums Of 2023. 2023 In Review December 13, 2023 12:23 PM By Phil Freeman. 2023 has ... who made a series of excellent fusion albums in the mid ’70s.

New Jazz Albums: Japanese Jazz for your listening pleasure. Favorite New Artist . It’s always a pleasure when a bright new talent emerges. For new artists I’m sure the pandemic has been a huge ...

Seven international musicians held a live-streaming concert on September 30, 2020, at Absolute Blue in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, featuring progressive jazz mu ...

Kiyoshi Koyama, widely regarded as Japan’s pre-eminent jazz journalist, who covered the music’s development throughout the 1960s and ’70s before becoming a producer of archival albums, died ...

A jazz fusion band that is heavily inspired by Japanese jazz fusion and city pop of the 80s, and the subsequent video game music that came out from it. A … ...