Duo Tremolo: Resonance
Pianist Hideaki Hori and guitarist Takayoshi Baba create beautiful music together on Resonance, their first studio recording as the unit...
Water Me!: Water Me!
Inspiring contrasts like strong and warm, comforting and demanding, smoky and silky, the dual vocal front-line of “Water Me!” delivers...
Yuka Ueda: Dois
On Yuka Ueda’s 2013 release Dois, the Japanese singer assembles thirteen songs from her Brazilian and Latin repertoire that she’s...
Miki Hirose: Scratch
Trumpeter Miki Hirose’s Scratch from 2013 sizzles with energy, fueled by impeccable trumpet lines fronting a jazz quintet on this...
Takayuki Yagi: New Departure
Pianist Takayuki Yagi’s 2018 release New Departure brings him together with stars of the New York jazz scene for a...
Akane Matsumoto: Memories of You
As the sentimental mood hints at in the cover photo and album title, Akane Matsumoto’s 2015 release Memories of You...
TCQ: Memories of T
Memories of T is a 2017 recording from the group TCQ which brings together Japanese and Taiwanese musicians for a...
Naoko Tanaka Trio: Memories
A satisfyingly neat outing, Naoko Tanaka Trio’s Memories (2015) leaves a fresh impression of modern Japanese jazz trios. The playing...
Aquapit: Aquapit
Jazz organ trio Aquapit’s first album from 2011 sets up the scene for a rollicking jazz party featuring the warm...
Masako Kunisada: Wonderful Life
Masako Kunisada’s spiritual, soulful voice channels truth and joy on her first album Wonderful Life from 2012. With experience singing...
Kohsuke Mine Quintet: Major to Minor
Kohsuke Mine Quintet’s 1993 album Major to Minor is full of life, a straight-ahead jazz outing built upon solid group...
Chihiro Yamanaka Trio: When October Goes
Chihiro Yamanaka’s second release When October Goes was released in 2002, a natural followup to her impressive debut Living Without...
Fuse: Live Fuse
Live Fuse is a 2007 live album from Fuse, a modern jazz quartet headed by Toshihiko Inoue on sax, with...
Arco: Birth
The piano and cello duo Arco released their second album Birth in 2019, two years after their debut Asymmetry, showing...
Motoi Kanamori: My Soul Meeting
Jazz bassist Motoi Kanamori’s My Soul Meeting from 2018 is his album debut as leader, where his jazz group rips...
Yuka Ueda: Agora
Agora is the 2011 debut release from vocalist Yuka Ueda who specializes in Brazilian samba and bossa nova music, singing...
Harumi Nomoto Trio: Belinda
Among the modern J-Jazz piano trio mainstays in the collection, Harumi Nomoto Trio’s Belinda is a favorite album to return...
Bungalow: Metropolitan Oasis
Jazz quartet Bungalow issued an imaginative and flavorful debut album with Metropolitan Oasis in 2011. Striking and singular, the songs...
Baby Brothers: Bb
The living music from vocal a cappella groups can be inspiring and soothing in turbulent times, with voices layered in...
Shunichi Yanagi Trio: Bubble Fish
Jazz pianist Shunichi Yanagi releases a shimmering modern jazz recording with his Tokyo trio on his 2012 debut Bubble Fish....
Yuko Miyawaki: Song of Flower
Japanese jazz musician Yuko Miyawaki’s debut album Song of Flower from 2011 brims with understated calm, burning steadily through original,...
Manabu Ohishi Trio: Gift
With the jazz album Gift from 2012, pianist and composer Manabu Ohishi reunites the trio from his album Wish (2010)...
Eriko Shimizu: Sora
Pianist Eriko Shimizu’s Sora is her debut album from 2010 on which she leads her jazz combo through seven songs...
Yukari Inoue: Sakura
Pianist Yukari Inoue’s Sakura from 2016 blooms with colorful variety as she jumps across genres as brightly as she hops...
Maiko: Solo
Jazz violinist Maiko pours her heart and soul out on her 2018 release Solo, brimming with graceful elegance and drama...
Emiko Voice x Suga Dairo: Phase 2
Vocalist Emiko Voice and pianist Dairo Suga perform jazz standards in non-standard ways on their 2009 release Phase 2~Twist &...
Ryosuke Hashizume Group: Wordless
Wordless is Ryosuke Hashizume’s first album released in Japan in 2006, kicking off a rewarding series of modern and absorbing...
Chihiro Yamanaka Trio: Living Without Friday
Jazz pianist Chihiro Yamanaka’s debut album Living Without Friday turns 20 years old today! Released modestly on October 5, 2001,...
Trio Export 63.1.0.X: Small Pieces for Flying Padre
The album Small Pieces for Flying Padre from Trio Export 63.1.0.X is a special release of a live jazz recording...
Miyuki Moriya: Cat’s Cradle
Miyuki Moriya’s Cat’s Cradle from 2010 is modern jazz album from an alto sax quartet featuring engaging sounds and improvisation...