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Japanese jazz. Clockwise from upper left: Jazz composer and pianist Hiromi Uehara, a Jazu Kissa jazz café in Tokyo, trumpet player Taniguchi Mataji in 1948, and Soil & "Pimp" Sessions' double bassist Akita Goldman. Japanese jazz (Japanese: 日本のジャズ, Nihon no jazu), also called Japazz, is jazz played by Japanese musicians or jazz ...
Oct 2, 2024 · The History of Jazz in Japan: Finesse through Cultural Osmosis. 🔖 9 min read. The story of jazz in Japan is one of cultural osmosis, arriving on Japanese shores through the interchange of globalisation. Technological innovation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries drove a steep rise in transportation. People and goods moved faster.
Apr 30, 2014 · With this year's International Jazz Day concert taking place in Osaka, an East Asian historian (a musician himself) describes how the music came across the Pacific — and how it took off after that.
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- SOIL & ‘’PIMP’’ SESSIONS. Formed from the Tokyo club scene at the turn of the millennium, the eccentric SOIL & ‘’PIMP’’ SESSIONS are one of the most well-known Japanese jazz bands around.
- Ryo Fukui. Jazz Pianist Ryo Fukui put out his first album Scenery in 1976 which has become an all-time classic Japanese jazz album. The album exemplifies Ryo Fukui’s dexterity and talent as a jazz pianist making this album not only a pleasure to listen to but technically impressive.
- Kyoto Jazz Massive. Kyoto Jazz Massive were one of the first nu-jazz groups, incorporating electronic and funk elements into their music. Brothers Shuya and Yoshihiro Okino started DJing and remixing tracks in the early 90s and are still releasing music together.
- United Future Organisation. Formed in the 1990s from the underground Tokyo club scene, United Future Organisation (sometimes referred to as UFO) were one of the groups that pioneered the genre of Japanese acid jazz.
Nov 15, 2021 · Nicknamed by Armstrong himself the “Satchmo of Japan”, Fumio Nanri is a jazz trumpet legend and one of the first Japanese jazz musicians to gain international recognitional in the 1950s. Known for his dixieland jazz style and skilled trumpet playing polished by his association with American jazz legends such as Louis Armstrong and Bobby Hackett, Fumio Nanri stood out in Asia to say the least.
Oct 29, 2018 · Part 1 | Part 2 The music market in Japan—second only to the U.S. in terms of revenue—generates more than two-billion dollars in sales annually. Enthusiasts and collectors of jazz recordings had long ago discovered that Japan's robust music scene, and the now virtual accessibility to products have made the country a go-to resource for hard-to-find releases.
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Apr 17, 2019 · A self-taught composer, Migiwa “Miggy” Miyajima led her first big band, called Miggy+, in Japan from 1999 to 2010. Before relocating to New York in 2012, she began a unique affiliation with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, producing the famed big band’s Japanese tours and co-producing two albums that ended up with Grammy nominations.
