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J Jazz: Deep Modern Jazz From Japan 1969 - 1984

Label: Barely Breaking Even
Released: 2018
Track listing: Earth Mother; Dead Letter; Aya’s Samba; White Fire; A Blind Man; Unknown Point; Kaze; Little Island; Long Neal.
Various Artists: J Jazz: Deep Modern Jazz From Japan 1969 - 1984

by Chris May
There is a lovely anecdote in Charlie Laurie's introduction to The Blue Note Years: The Jazz Photography Of Francis Wolff (Rizzoli, 1995). Describing the first Blue Note Festival at the foot of Japan's Mount Fuji in 1986, Laurie wrote: Where else but in Japan can one see a field packed with fifteen thousand teens and twentysomethings ...