A year has passed since my last Japanese jazz mix.. so decided to go big this time :)
Two hour mix, with lots of heavy sax and electric piano work!
First hour is traditional / acoustic, starting with a mix I did from different Minoru Muraoka and Hozan Yamamoto albums, it's shakuhachi jazz all the way Baby!!
The second hour is pure Fender rhodes, electric guitar bliss..
Here's what I played:
Minoru Muraoka and New Dimension Group
– Osorezan / Positive and negative / Osorezan (live)
Hozan Yamamoto – The Suite for
Sakuhachi
Hiromasa Suzuki – Ame no Iwayado
Toshiaki Yokota Primitive Community –
Black narcissus / A Forbidden Ceremony
Seiichi Nakamura Quartet – Lady's
flower
Yoshio Ikeda Quintet – Nature
Awakening
Shigeharu Mukai – Turbulence
Minoru Muraoka – Osorezan
Hozan Yamamoto – Stone Garden Of
Ryoan Temple
Minoru Muraoka & Herbie Mann –
Shomyo (Monk's chant) / Mauve over blues
Shigeharu Mukai – Dawn
Ryojiro Furusawa Quartet – Moki
Mabumi Yamaguchi Quartet – Distant
Thunder
Hidefumi Toki Quartet – Lullaby for
the girl
Kazumi Watanabe – The second wind
Kiyoshi Sugimoto – Long Neal
Hiroshi Fukumura – Mother Some Place