Tracklist:

01. Koichi Matsukaze Trio - Earth Mother (11:22)
02. Tohru Aizawa Quartet - Dead Letter (10:11)
03. Eiji Nakayama - Aya's Samba (06:33)
04. Takao Uematsu - White Fire (07:48)
05. Shintaro Quintet - A Blind Man (10:55)
06. Mitsuaki Katayama - Unknown Point (06:33)
07. Takeo Moriyama - Kaze (05:09)
08. Terumasa Hino & Reggie Workman - Ode to Workman (15:19)
09. Fumio Karashima - Little Island (09:04)
10. Kiyoshi Sugimoto - Long Neal (08:26)

BBE latest "deep dive" into a widely underappreciated style focuses on a particularly fertile period in the history of Japan's "contemporary jazz" scene. Curated by renowned Japanese jazz diggers Tony Higgins and Mike Peden, J-Jazz focuses on material recorded and released between 1969 and '84, a period the label says represents a "golden age" for jazz in Japan. Predictably, the compilation is both a serious history lesson and hugely enjoyable to listen to, featuring a mixture of U.S-influenced jazz-funk, fusion, post-modal and deep, spiritual improvisations. Naturally, all of the material has never been released outside of Japan before, with the vast majority of tracks being either ludicrously rare or sought-after. Simply essential, all told.

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