Kaori Vibes Quartet: Flying Mind
Kaori Vibes Quartet is a jazz quartet centered around the lovely ringing bell-tones of jazz vibraphone. After three years of...
Hiroco Nagano: Okurimono
Okurimono is a two-track release from vocalist Hiroco Nagano with pianist Seiji Endo. On the first track, the duo takes...
Akiko Suda: Flowers On The Hill
Flowers On The Hill is a beautiful album of tender and impeccably delivered music from the vocalist Akiko Suda. The...
Sayaka Kishi: Featuring Te
Featuring Te, a 2014 release from pianist Sayaka Kishi, is a fun and bright collection of original solo piano tunes...
Arco: Asymmetry
Pianist Sayaki Kishi and cellist Mayumi Sano released their first album together under the moniker Arco with Asymmetry in 2017....
Yasumasa Kumagai: J-Straight Ahead
The jazz style of pianist/composer Yasumasa Kumagai has always been pinned to the leading edge of modern J Jazz built...
Ryosuke Hashizume Group: Incomplete Voices
Incomplete Voices is the latest release from the Ryosuke Hashizume Group, released in 2017. As with prior albums, this is...
Emiko Voice: Carta
An elegant package inside and out, brimming with atmosphere. The outer package is a slim booklet, containing photography, a poem,...
Bungalow: You Already Know
On Bungalow’s fourth album You Already Know (2017), the modern jazz group does what they do best with creative jazz,...
Ayumi Koketsu: Art
Alto saxophonist Ayumi Koketsu released a sophisticated tribute to Art Pepper on her album Art from 2016. With slick bop...
Akane Matsumoto: Night & Day
Fun and buoyant bebop jazz in the style of Oscar Peterson and Phineas Newborn Junior, this is a happy jazz...
Kazumi Ikenaga: Niwatazumi
Niwatazumi is a wonderful modern jazz record from drummer Kazumi Ikenaga and Pauseland, a Danish group described as ambient jazz...
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