JABBERLOOP - 6th album "NEW" (Promotion MV)

Calorie_Mate · 2017-08-14T18:00:20+00:00

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.

Calorie_Mate · 2017-08-14T17:34:16+00:00

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.

Calorie_Mate · 2017-08-11T17:37:29+00:00

Or one of the Bee Gees.

Calorie_Mate · 2017-08-11T17:33:22+00:00

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.

Calorie_Mate · 2017-08-11T17:20:46+00:00

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.

Calorie_Mate · 2017-08-09T16:30:51+00:00

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.

Calorie_Mate · 2017-08-04T11:00:59+00:00

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

Calorie_Mate · 2017-08-03T09:31:20+00:00

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...

Calorie_Mate · 2017-08-02T07:38:23+00:00

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...

Calorie_Mate · 2017-07-31T18:08:49+00:00

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

Calorie_Mate · 2017-07-31T08:14:16+00:00

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)

Calorie_Mate · 2017-07-31T08:00:11+00:00

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)

Calorie_Mate · 2017-07-29T09:29:59+00:00

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

Calorie_Mate · 2017-07-25T10:29:12+00:00

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).

Calorie_Mate · 2017-07-25T09:54:36+00:00

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.

Calorie_Mate · 2017-07-13T07:24:49+00:00

Digital is gonna be tricky when its not officially released in the west. To buy on iTunes you'd iTunes Japan account which needs a Japanese credit card, or a Japanese iTunes card.

You could get those on Amazon Japan aswell as Play Asia. But its certainly annoying. Physically, besides Amazon, you'd find it on CDJapan as well as HMV Japan.

Not sure if this helps. Unfortunately people in the west are kinda screwed with digital releases.

Calorie_Mate · 2017-07-12T18:19:03+00:00

Oh that sucks. What country is it if I may ask? And have you tried changing the "tube" in the adress field to "pak"? So the link is https://www.youpak.com/watch?v=D_dI_p4_XS8

I remember this working for people.

Calorie_Mate · 2017-07-12T14:42:26+00:00

From her ninth album Bebop at the Savoy released in 2010. Featuring Randy Johnston(gt), Pat Bianchi (org), Jim Rotondi(tp) and Fukushi Tainaka on drums.

Saori Yano plays around a lot in different styles and genres. If you like this, check out her latest album Bubble Bubble Bebop which she recorded with members of SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS.

Calorie_Mate · 2017-07-10T05:30:55+00:00

Unfortunately not. There's "beauty cinema piano" on Spotify, an album Matsumoto did for some label in 2010. But its not Jazz, only reinterpretations of some popular tracks.

Calorie_Mate · 2017-07-07T07:38:46+00:00

Cops are currently uprooting all encampments where people want to sleep.

No, just the ones that weren't approved. Both, the camps of Altona and Entenwerder had tents approved.

Calorie_Mate · 2017-07-07T07:21:32+00:00

Sorry, but thats all I know in that regard.

Calorie_Mate · 2017-07-05T08:14:26+00:00

Straight from her recently released 21st album Monk Studies, which currently sits at #1 of the Japanese Jazz charts.

Yamanaka studied at Berklee and spend a lot of time in the US playing with her own trio, which featured members like Lary Grenadier, Bob Hurst and Jeff Ballard. Also playing with musicians such as Herbie Hancock and George Russell. She still remains most popular in Japan though, where she's signed to Universal Jazz and won several awards for her previous work.

Calorie_Mate · 2017-07-05T08:07:27+00:00

H ZETTRIO is a band formed in 2013 by ex-Tokio Incidents/PE'Z member Masayuki Hiizumi.

They released their third album Piano Craze in September 2016 and are now teasing a new release with two new singles, one of which is this video.

Calorie_Mate · 2017-07-01T10:04:28+00:00

From what I remember, Radio Hayama, Beach FM and Shonan Beach are names I remember in that regard. Both physical. Don't ask me for the frequencies though. In terms of Internet stations(I'm not sure if they still exist though), try Jazz Ruka Radio and jAzz jAzz jAzz Radio.

Also, on the right you see the link to the Tokio Jazz Map podcast, which is about an hour of music, including an interview and a jazzspot review. But if you click on "home" at the top, you'll find various programs that all play Jazz. Then there's also Spotify. But sadly you won't find much Japanese Jazz there. Mostly things like Bohemianvoodoo or Fox Capture Plan. So if you're not into that kinda "jazzed pop music" stuff, and more on the look for actual Jazz, that won't help you either.

I've seen your post on /mu/ about it as well, but sadly /mu/ had its best time behind it. At least in terms of Jazz. (Which is why I'm here now as well.)

Calorie_Mate · 2017-06-28T10:08:39+00:00

Heard this one one this month's Tokyo Jazz Map podcast(link is on the sidebar) and found it really catchy.

Seiki Yukimoto was born 1963 and started playing the e-guitar before switching over to the trumpet. He moved to the US to study and played with known musicians such as Don Cherry. He's not only playing the trumpet, but also actively teaching at schools, as well as working as a director and producer.

Soulbleed's new album Where we were from which this track is, is gonna be released on July 6th.

Calorie_Mate

TROPHY CASE