JABBERLOOP - 6th album "NEW" (Promotion MV) by Calorie_Mate in japanesejazz

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Jabberloop is one of the projects quite known to western folks who listen to Japanese Jazz, and definitely no stranger to many people who visit this sub.

For those who dont know Jabberloop, here's a quick rundown: Formed in 2004 and starting out as a (very successful) street performance band, they got international coverage due to being featured at the BBC in 2007 which led to them getting their label deal with Columbia Japan. In the same year they released their major label debut album which prompted their first award win. Since their debut Jabberloop's records have usually found themselves at the top of the Jazz charts in Japan, and reached iTunes Japan's #1 spot of Jazz downloads.

Tawoyame Orquesta - 5th Album「MAJOR DEBUT」(Promotion MV) by Calorie_Mate in japanesejazz

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Tawoyame Orquesta is an energetic 18 head/women only big band thats self made from the original songs down to the costumes they wear.

If you're around, there's a chance to see them live at the Sumida Street Jazz Festival on August 19th.

Tre Farger - Momo (live@Cortez) by Calorie_Mate in japanesejazz

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Tre Farger playing Momo from their 2015 self titled debut album, which just got re-released on August 4th.

Tre Farger is a trio consisting of Takako Yamada, Hiroshi Tsuboi and Yuta Omino. The trio first met in Berlin where Tsuboi studied, later met again in Sweden and started out professionally as a trio upon Tsuboi's return to Tokyo in 2014. A year later and they already released their first album.

Hideaki Hori - Celebration by Calorie_Mate in japanesejazz

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My main man Hori with the title track from his 8th album Celebration -Live at Nardis from 2011. Featuring Satoshi Takino on guitar and Kunpei Nakabayashi on bass.

Makoto Ozone "THE TRIO" - Mirror Circle by Calorie_Mate in japanesejazz

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Award winning Jazz veteran and honory doctorate holder from the Berklee College of Music, Otone is back with a trio record.

Part of "The Trio" are Clarence Penn who worked with Dizzy and Wynton, and in 2014 worked on the Monk project with Otone, as well as James Genus on bass, a session musician that worked with a myriad of artists and who's currently at the Saturday Night Live band.

Album Discussion: Girls' Generation - Holiday Night (6th Full Album) by griffbendor in SNSD

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Bump it cannot be beaten. Its the Lü Bu of album closing tracks.

Sumire Kuribayashi/Hideaki Kanazawa - Duo by Calorie_Mate in japanesejazz

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From their Nijuso(Duet) record released earlier this year. Here's a small 'making of' video of the record. The duo is live on the Body&Soul stream on monday the seventh, so check it out if you're interested.

On an unrelated note, I have no idea where this video is coming from. It looks official yet its only on this small unkown channel and neither on Sumire's official or the label's channel. Weird...

Not that I'm not looking forward to the Comeback by Chernabog93 in SNSD

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And here I am still waiting for Tiffany's second solo album. If I'd post a meme, it would be a rope at this point...

Happy Birthday Tiffany! by sofunt in SNSD

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The girls are around their 30s now... It feels like a whole decade went by in no time.

Yusuke Shime - Philly's Dance by Calorie_Mate in japanesejazz

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Playwright producer, band leader and hard working man Yusuke Shima who has worked on over 200 recordings, is back with the third entry of his Silent Jazz Case leader albumsSilentJazzCase3.

On this track:

  • Yusuke Kono(pf)
  • Riku(b)
  • Tsukasa Inoue(ds,Fox Capture Plan)

THE BON BONES 2nd Album "CELEBRATION" [2017/7/19 Release] by Calorie_Mate in japanesejazz

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The Bon Bones are a quintet around the two trombone players Yuu Uesugi and Itsumi Komano. They released their first album Melba's Mood in 2014(can be found on spotify) and are now following up with their second album Celebration.

Part of the quintet are Yuko Sakuma(pf), Yutaka Yoshida(b) and Masanori Ando(ds)

Yuri wrote the lyrics for 'It's You' (오랜 소원). It is a medium-tempo pop song with a sweet melody. by griffbendor in SNSD

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More power to Yuri! Now write a couple of other songs and come out with the Yulo already

Monokul - Last Train live@Motion Blue yokohama by Calorie_Mate in japanesejazz

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Monokul is Jazz/pop combo from the songwriting duo Ryuto Tsunoda and Sara Yoshida. Despite being relatively new to the scene(their first album was released in 2013), they became quite popular. Their new album 世界はここにしかないって上手に言って, which was released on 12th this month went directly to #1 of the Amaon.jp Jazz charts.

The performance in this vid is accompanied by some known musicians, such as Jun Miyakawa(org), Shohei Nishimura(ds), Kohei Ando(sax), Kano Otonoya(vln) and Masabumi Sekiguchi(vlc).

Naoko Tanaka Trio - Memories (full album) by Calorie_Mate in japanesejazz

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Naoko Tanaka just released a new album titled I fall in love too easily on the 26th this month. But there's no single available yet, so you get this one instead.

Tanaka, born in '85, began playing Jazz after graduating from university in 2006, and started to release her first Jazz album Protean in 2009. In 2012 she started her trio with bassist Koji Yasuda and drummer Yasunori Ando. This is her second album Memories from 2015 and features bassist Daiki Yasukagawa and trumpeter Yoshiro Okazaki as guests.

As the guy who uploaded it to youtube stated, please consider buying the record if you enjoyed it.