I read a lot about free cats like Otomo Yoshimide and "nu-jazz" like United Future Organization, (and perhaps downthread this can morph into an all-out S/D J-Jazz) but at the moment I'm more interested in the Japanese take on bop & post-bop.
Where should I start with Toshiko Akiyoshi or Atsuya Okuda? Who else should I look to? Did Atsuya Okuda record anything back in his trumpet days?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver (hoosteen), Sunday, 18 February 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Don't know much about either of the artists you specifically asked about, but I'm a fan of Natsuki Tamura and wife Satoko Fujii (trumpet and piano, respectively). They release CDs by the barge-load - about a dozen, if not more, just since 2005. The recent quartet album
When We Were There, under Fujii's name, is a good jumping-in point, and Tamura's
Hada Hada is screaming electronic free jazz (trumpet, guitar, synth, and electronic [but not programmed; they're pads] drums) is brilliantly hair-raising.
― pdf (unperson), Sunday, 18 February 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link