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Itaru Oki Quartet: Live At Jazz Spot Combo 1975

Read "Live At Jazz Spot Combo 1975" reviewed by John Sharpe


Live At Jazz Spot Combo 1975 constitutes the second entry from trumpeter Itaru Oki, who died in 2020, in the fascinating series of Japanese free jazz recordings licensed from the Chap Chap label by the Lithuanian NoBusiness imprint. It follows Kami Fusen (2017) which presented another live date from 21 years later. One of the pioneers ...

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Live At Jazz Spot Combo 1975

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Combo Session 1; Combo Session 2; Combo Session 3; Combo Session 4; Combo Session 5.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Henry Threadgill's Zooid, New No Business Releases & Christopher Parker

Read "Henry Threadgill's Zooid, New No Business Releases & Christopher Parker" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


Two of the giants of the saxophone are featured in this episode of OMJ: Henry Threadgill and his longest-running band Zooid (he plays more with this band than others) and the late, great Sam Rivers from his archive of unrecorded music released by NoBusiness Records. Rivers leads one of his not-too-common guitar quartets. Also from NoBusiness ...

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Article: Album Review

Choi Sun Bae: Arirang Fantasy

Read "Arirang Fantasy" reviewed by John Sharpe


A 1995 meeting in Tokyo between Korean and Japanese proponents of the art of free jazz furnishes another entry in the Chap Chap series of improvised encounters issued by the Lithuanian NoBusiness imprint. From Korea, Arirang Fantasy introduces trumpeter Choi Sun Bae, who also features alongside Japanese trumpeter Itaru Oki on Kami Fusen (NoBusiness, 2017), and ...

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Itaru Oki: Kami Fusen

Read "Kami Fusen" reviewed by Nicola Negri


Kami Fusen è il secondo capitolo della serie di registrazioni inedite curata da NoBusiness e Chap Chap Records, dopo l'eccellente The Conscience di Paul Rutherford e Sabu Toyozumi. Questa volta, i musicisti provengono tutti dall'Estremo Oriente. Itaru Oki è stato tra i primi musicisti giapponesi ad esplorare il linguaggio del free jazz nei ...

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Kami Fusen

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Pon Pon Tea; Yawning Baku; Ikiru; Kami-Fusen; I Remember Clifford; Old Folks / Tea for Two.

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Article: Album Review

Itaru Oki: Kami Fusen

Read "Kami Fusen" reviewed by John Sharpe


This second instalment from NoBusiness Records collaboration with the Japanese Chap Chap label under the name of trumpeter Itaru Oki constitutes a real find. One of the pioneers of free jazz in his native country, Oki moved to Paris in 1974, subsequently working with many luminaries including saxophonists Steve Lacy, Noah Howard and Sam Rivers, and ...

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Article: Album Review

Itaru Oki - Nobuyoshi Ino - Choi Sun Bae: Kami Fusen

Read "Kami Fusen" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Prominent Japanese trumpeter Itaru Oki and bassist Nobuyoshi Ino recorded this album in 1996 at a Café in Yamaguchi, Japan, and Korean trumpeter Choi Sun Bae flew into town just for this gig. Consequently, no drums or chordal instruments enable the trio to work from an open forum with few if any restrictions, especially when considering ...

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News: Recording

New Releases On NoBusiness Records -- March 2017

New Releases On NoBusiness Records -- March 2017

NoBusiness Records has just released four new vinyls and three new CD's. Look for them on NoBusiness Records website. NoBusiness Records in cooperation with Japanese Chap-Chap Records has started a series of releases of unreleased concerts that took place in Japan in the 90s. Concerts were organised by big fans of free jazz and improvised music ...


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