S/D Japanese Jazz

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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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

i know nothing about this, but i can vouch for this album:
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EHQKA8.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
http://www.amazon.com/Episome-Otomo-Yoshihide/dp/B000EHQKA8/sr=8-3/qid=1171833172/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/103-4244243-3789444?ie=UTF8&s=music

― hm (modestmickey), Sunday, 18 February 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EHQKA8.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― hm (modestmickey), Sunday, 18 February 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

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