Jazz Articles about Isao Suzuki

London Crate-Diggers BBE Reveal Lost J-Jazz Gems

by Chris May
April 6, 2023

In his introduction to The Blue Note Years: The Jazz Photography Of Francis Wolff (Rizzoli, 1995), the late Charlie Lourie reported a remarkable event he had witnessed at the inaugural Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival in 1985. “Where else but in Japan," wrote Lourie, “can one see a field packed with fifteen thousand teens and twentysomethings roar with excited recognition at the first four bars on Sonny Clark's 'Cool Struttin'?." Such was the then globally unique demographic of the jazz audience ...