@@thievingcthulhu8632 fusion is the opposite of taking jazz seriously and very little actual jazz progressions are used in fusion music. That's just the fact of it.
I miss you very much. Akira Ishikawa, the drum and leader of this band, was very helpful when I was young. He was a very caring and usually kind person.
hi Fujio..u know about this..the Professor needs a japanese music and art musicians from the 70's Documentary Film..u are the man he needs..work on it..write the contents 4that project..the GUIONIST...the Professor looks for the financial search to realice the Project like PRODUCER..and me all about PHOTOGRAPY DIRECTION and CAMERA/LIGHTS OPERATOR..couple of Production Assistants, one Camera Assistant and a SOUND RECORDING..an 11 persom CREEW. WHAT U THING ABOUT?..LET's DO IT !YESS! "The JaZZpanese Music Scene in the 70's"..contact the Professor below..lets Do It Fujio !!gabrielO. Wait Ur Answer. cheers m8
Japan was and maybe is extremely underrated when it comes down to many music styles. From jazz to pop and from rock to blues. It has musicians who are among the finest worldwide.
I don't know exactly what the heck has happened to my TH-cam that started to recommend me this kind of music recently... but I can't be more grateful with it.
I found out Akira Ishikawa died just a few months before I was born... Now it's my duty to keep his music alive by keeping listening to it like millions of other people do
First thing I noticed was the bass, most of these tracks lead in with the bass and grab ya right away, definitely gonna sit down and plug away at some of these on my bass 😎
I’ll add to the bass. If you have not ventured into Haruomi Hosono’s musical journey, you must. I consider him to be one Japan’s finest bass players and composers.
I wish I could send this album back in time to myself in high school when I watched Cowboy Bebop for the first time. Highschooler me would be so happy. Great upload.
Brother I can not tell you how these last couple years catching all these amazing Japanese Jazz albums after the fact is such a crime... This stuff is incredible! So underappreciated for its time - I can't get enough of it now.
I'm blown away and excited to know this now. You're right though. There's this bit of real sadness that I didn't know this existed 15-20 years ago, when I declared citizenship to Funkadelica.
I was peacefully studying but then I end up crying hearing every piece of music that gives me so much nostalgia. I can't believe we grew up so fast. Everything just seemed like it happened yesterday
The only next logical step is to start listening to 2 of these Japanese fusion albums at the same time and find out which ones are actually meant to go together
Wait- hard stop bro- ✋ Seperate albums are literally composed and precisely constructed to be complete and individual, and yet can be synced up to make an entirely seperate album if someone had an extra racord player lying around? Please say yes.
@@jaymethodus3421 not exactly the same but The Flaming Lips had a concept album where each song was spread across 4 different discs. You could listen to each disc separately and get a decent sense of the song but if you played all 4 discs at the same time then it really opened up
@@jaymethodus3421 lol well it didn’t work back in the day because people didn’t have 4 CD players back in the 90’s and it won’t work today because people don’t have 1 CD player in the 2020’s
This album is so very well written,arranged, played and is such excellent true talent from all involved..well produced and truly one that should be in anyones music collection as it is so great...and thanks for posting this,so good that new generations will get to hear this fine high quality band and their great material..
Drums Method is just covers, and not very creative ones. If you don't care for mundane covers, you can skip that one. But I have most of his stuff from 1969 through the mid 70s and I have yet to find a bad one yet. This one is the most traditional jazz-rock FUSION typical of the mid 70s, but they're all pretty good. I highly recommend "Memories of Africa" and "African Rock"
I don't even remember when the algo started recommending me obscure albums from decades prior that I never would have found otherwise but I'm not even mad. I am among frenz.
Being a jazz freak of the 70’ ie. CRI and such how did I miss the great Japanese jazz artist. Of course I knew of Sadao Watanabe And his ilk but this album and it’s minions were no where on my radar. Very sad. This band is tight
I love that this album has Painted Paradise, which is also on Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media's amazing album "Funky Stuff". I heard the riff and thought it sounded familiar.
I can't get over how much I utterly adore this. Where has it been? I feel like I'm listening to Mussorgsky or Rubber Soul, or 40 oz to freedom for the first time again.
Every time I find new music I like I also find out that Japan did it better than who ever did it first every single time. I can see where the influance for Cowboy Bebop came from. American Jazz sounds either too formal like it's for the President or like an industrial park in an attempt to be the most 'free form' and makes it sound like no one knows how to compose music. This feels both totally improvised and methotically composed and it slaps SO hard.
This is the sort of music you listen to when everything is ok. Low unemployment, the streets are clean, you got some money and a nice wife. Your son agreed to medicine and your daughter is in law school.
this just showed up in my recommended and now i see why people are into jazz, good stuff. hard to believe the 70s was such a good decade for music that so many things still sound modern.
first track taken me to the highest psychedelic grade and this, without drugs.... seriously, it's really really a good first track, I could enjoy this at any hour of days and nigths
We need a documentary on the Japanese music scene in the 70s.
@@zeeqwan6477 reply for reference, lol
I literally said the same thing the other day😂 shit probably got weeeeiiirdddd👽
Yesss
WE DOOO! I am just learning that I need this docu too!
No we don’t. I need real shit not dumb shit. Thanks for representing everyone though. That’s very American of you
Them Japanese folks really took Jazz seriously back in 70s. Extremely good
this is fusion tho
For sure..I'm off to stack some cardboard boxes in the alley for the car chase, see y'all at the dockside for the shoot out
@@D_sull93 this is who the fuck cares?
@@D_sull93 as if there aren’t major jazz elements to fusion.
@@thievingcthulhu8632 fusion is the opposite of taking jazz seriously and very little actual jazz progressions are used in fusion music. That's just the fact of it.
That opening track was freaking intense
I had to check and make sure my player wasn't set on 1.5 speed!
@@obviouslycloe6940 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Sounds like late 70’s Rush in places.
@@obviouslycloe6940 I did the same thing
bigs
I miss you very much. Akira Ishikawa, the drum and leader of this band, was very helpful when I was young. He was a very caring and usually kind person.
you knew the guy? that's crazy i love this band
hi Fujio..u know about this..the Professor needs a japanese music and art musicians from the 70's Documentary Film..u are the man he needs..work on it..write the contents 4that project..the GUIONIST...the Professor looks for the financial search to realice the Project like PRODUCER..and me all about PHOTOGRAPY DIRECTION and CAMERA/LIGHTS OPERATOR..couple of Production Assistants, one Camera Assistant and a SOUND RECORDING..an 11 persom CREEW.
WHAT U THING ABOUT?..LET's DO IT !YESS!
"The JaZZpanese Music Scene in the 70's"..contact the Professor below..lets Do It Fujio !!gabrielO. Wait Ur Answer. cheers m8
Did you know him? He's a fantastic musician!
You are lucky and blessed to know him
Yes.
Japan was and maybe is extremely underrated when it comes down to many music styles. From jazz to pop and from rock to blues. It has musicians who are among the finest worldwide.
Kind of surprising, but at second glance, not at all surprising.
@@mattjohnson1953 you explained my reaction to this perfectly
Great Funk!
Techno Pop.
2nd largest global music market since forever ago
ANYTHING Japanese 70's Jazz related i'm ALL EARS
You can say that again! 🗣️
Welcome to the party
Can’t believe how late I am discovering how influential & awesome that music era was to America!
It doesn't matter how many ears you have, if they don't work Mr. Beethoven!
True .. but don’t forget British 60s and 70s Library funk 😍
僕の師匠だった方です。初めて石川さんのドラムセットを叩いたときに物凄く良い音だったのを覚えています。曲始まりのカウント出しからダメ出しされたのも良い思いでです。優しくて素敵な方でした。
ピガピガを経営されてましたね。ブンドゥムーナは元気ですかね。
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥🛐🛐🛐🛐🛐
That's so awesome!!!!
I don't know exactly what the heck has happened to my TH-cam that started to recommend me this kind of music recently... but I can't be more grateful with it.
Mine too I have no idea why
Yeah it just started happening to me last week. I am 100% here for it though.
Even if it is some mind control experiment by Big Brother, I don’t mind.
Like what?
ha, I'm the exact same. Check out seven goblins by masayoshi takanaka (if youtube didnt already recommend it lol)
This album got me in the mood for catching inter-planetary fugitives.
See You space cowboy ...
I found out Akira Ishikawa died just a few months before I was born... Now it's my duty to keep his music alive by keeping listening to it like millions of other people do
Super!
this hits that jazzy side of psychedelic pretty well
makes me wanna take acid on a very fancy party. throw around them martinis
In case you’re listening this high af 😂
I was driving and listening to the 1st track and I IMMEDIATELY felt like I was in a 1970s car chase scene. What an album!
Phenomenal album. All bass players need to listen to this.... with very good headphones. The bass lines are amazing.
First thing I noticed was the bass, most of these tracks lead in with the bass and grab ya right away, definitely gonna sit down and plug away at some of these on my bass 😎
a friend just recommended me this album after he found out i like Casiopeia, been digging a lot this fat and funky bass
I’ll add to the bass. If you have not ventured into Haruomi Hosono’s musical journey, you must. I consider him to be one Japan’s finest bass players and composers.
All your bass belong to us.
@@picciloson Are there any albums/songs you recommend? Thanks for the info btw.
教育TVで石川のおじさんだよ〜 小学生でもjazzの入り口に触れさせてくれたマクロスのjamトリップ今でも持ってます
Every once in a while in my TH-cam recommendations I get a Japanese album from the 70s or the 80s that’s an absolute banger
Same this just popped up. Am bugging. Sending to all my friends😊
I wish I could send this album back in time to myself in high school when I watched Cowboy Bebop for the first time. Highschooler me would be so happy. Great upload.
La neta
Do someone that likes jazz favor and tell them to watch Cowboy Bebop. Also send them this
@@chamwow168 go tell them "charlie Parker charles mingus sonny rollins, monk, jackie mclean, lee morgan, miles" instead ...
I used to hear such melodies that appear on local TV without knowing any category of music this falls under 😪 i was so ignorant .
Bro dis me rn, love CB just finished high school and found this gem
Brother I can not tell you how these last couple years catching all these amazing Japanese Jazz albums after the fact is such a crime... This stuff is incredible! So underappreciated for its time - I can't get enough of it now.
I'm blown away and excited to know this now. You're right though. There's this bit of real sadness that I didn't know this existed 15-20 years ago, when I declared citizenship to Funkadelica.
I was peacefully studying but then I end up crying hearing every piece of music that gives me so much nostalgia. I can't believe we grew up so fast. Everything just seemed like it happened yesterday
The only next logical step is to start listening to 2 of these Japanese fusion albums at the same time and find out which ones are actually meant to go together
This comment deserves an oscar.
Wait- hard stop bro- ✋
Seperate albums are literally composed and precisely constructed to be complete and individual, and yet can be synced up to make an entirely seperate album if someone had an extra racord player lying around?
Please say yes.
@@jaymethodus3421 not exactly the same but The Flaming Lips had a concept album where each song was spread across 4 different discs. You could listen to each disc separately and get a decent sense of the song but if you played all 4 discs at the same time then it really opened up
@@Nichi-Ji if only people were intellectually capable of pulling the same thing off these days
@@jaymethodus3421 lol well it didn’t work back in the day because people didn’t have 4 CD players back in the 90’s and it won’t work today because people don’t have 1 CD player in the 2020’s
石川のオジサンだ
子供の頃テレビでよく見てました😊
ワンツー・どんでしたね😊
こんなにカッコいい音楽が日本にあったとは。
自分が知らないだけでまだまだカッコいい音楽が埋もれていますね。
That drum break at heated point tho.
ドラムセットの音がしていますので忘れません。
Masao Suzuki - Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute
Masaoki Terakawa - Bass
Akira Ishikawa - Drums
Hideo Ichikawa - Electric Piano
Hiromasa Suzuki - Electric Piano, Synthesizer
Takao Naoi - Guitar
Rally Sunaga - Percussion
Takeru Muraoka - Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute
Eiji Arai - Trombone
Koji Hatori - Trumpet
The best drums I've ever heard. Japanese Fusion Jazz forever!
mother fucker has hands
CREDITS (productions) :
Recorded at Victor Studio, August 4,8&20, 1975
Engineered by 内沼映二 (Eiji Uchinuma) and 柳原康 (Yasushi Yanagihara)
CREDITS (musicians) :
石川晶
AKIRA ISHIKAWA:drums
寺川正興
MASAOKI TERAKAWA:electric bass
鈴木宏昌
HIROMASA SUZUKI:electric piano, synthsesizers, arrangement
直居隆雄
TAKAO NAOI:electric guitar
ラリー寿永
LARRY SUNAGA:percussion
村岡健
TAKERU MURAOKA:soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute
新井英治
EIJI ARAI:trombone (on 2,4)
鈴木正男
MASAO SUZUKI:alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, flute (on 2,3,4,5,6)
羽鳥幸次
KOJI HATORI:trumpet (on 2,3,4,5,6)
市川秀男
HIDEO ICHIKAWA:electric piano (on 1)
What I was hoping I would find.
Thank you !
Thank u so much!
Wow, Thank you!
Thanks. 🙏
カッコいいなあ、自分が産まれる前にこんなんすごいわ
The algorithm just decided to one day hand me absurd levels of funk, and I'm all for it.
Holy mother! What a Masterpiece! I love Japanese Jazz 🎸
I've been listening to Japanese jazz for years. Never heard this one before. It's straight FIRE!
素晴らしいアルバムをありがとうございます。石川晶は日本でもっとも太鼓を鳴らすことのうまかったドラマーのひとりだと思う。グルーヴもちょっと日本人離れしてる。
This album certainly cowboys my bebop
👌😉
Fine Jazz fusion!!! Iam from the 60’s-70
I never knew back then about this killer
Jazz album!!!
👍
I love this so much, I can feel it inside my bones
Yes... exactly what I feel....
It is taking over
Great positive beat. You can't be in a bad mood to this.
watch me mf
Mine is improving measurably as I am listening to this now
This album is so very well written,arranged,
played and is such excellent true talent from
all involved..well produced and truly one that
should be in anyones music collection as it
is so great...and thanks for posting this,so good
that new generations will get to hear this fine
high quality band and their great material..
The first song had me hooked 15 seconds in. Fantastic stuff! More, more, more!👍😁 Thank you for the upload!
that bass growl on track one, fantastic!
also, if anybody has this vinyl for sale, please get at me ASAP!
280$ on discogs O.o
@@erikburman692 you serious ?
@@erikburman692 Good thing I'm satisfied by just listening to music on the internet 😅
@@toothlesstoe el consuelo de quienes somos pobres
Such an incredible album, I wish the rest of their discography were like this.
Are you sure, sucker?
they only have two albums lol
@@sigecaseh517LMAO
Drums Method is just covers, and not very creative ones. If you don't care for mundane covers, you can skip that one. But I have most of his stuff from 1969 through the mid 70s and I have yet to find a bad one yet. This one is the most traditional jazz-rock FUSION typical of the mid 70s, but they're all pretty good. I highly recommend "Memories of Africa" and "African Rock"
Music is just the best thing ever really.
Damm....He´s a fantastic drummer.
good rule of thumb when it comes to jazz fusion: good album cover = good music. never failed me, rings true here.
It sure grabbed must attention
I'd wear it on a shirt
@@acidset i need that so bad 😭
I don't even remember when the algo started recommending me obscure albums from decades prior that I never would have found otherwise but I'm not even mad. I am among frenz.
Being a jazz freak of the 70’ ie. CRI and such how did I miss the great Japanese jazz artist. Of course I knew of Sadao Watanabe And his ilk but this album and it’s minions were no where on my radar. Very sad. This band is tight
So long space cowboy
I love that this album has Painted Paradise, which is also on Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media's amazing album "Funky Stuff". I heard the riff and thought it sounded familiar.
Looking up Painted Paradise from his album is how I eventually found myself here. :)
DUDE, THANK YOU!!!! I would listen to this album as well as the other on and off, and I'd be so confused as to who plays that song. 😂
I can't get over how much I utterly adore this. Where has it been? I feel like I'm listening to Mussorgsky or Rubber Soul, or 40 oz to freedom for the first time again.
This is very sophisticated. Very rich and complex. I need to study more about the 70s scene in Japan.
I can't believe they haven't reissued this one yet. Absolute killer, and the few copies of the original are very expensive.
Just like the first time... this blows my mind every time. This band is nothing but an eargasm.
Every time I find new music I like I also find out that Japan did it better than who ever did it first every single time. I can see where the influance for Cowboy Bebop came from. American Jazz sounds either too formal like it's for the President or like an industrial park in an attempt to be the most 'free form' and makes it sound like no one knows how to compose music. This feels both totally improvised and methotically composed and it slaps SO hard.
That first joint was insane
Best intro ever, I can listen to the first minute over and over again until the final drum 🥁
This is the sort of music you listen to when everything is ok. Low unemployment, the streets are clean, you got some money and a nice wife. Your son agreed to medicine and your daughter is in law school.
Some serious drumming going on!! Wow!! Amazing.
Never, ever heard of this and its amazing.
this just showed up in my recommended and now i see why people are into jazz, good stuff.
hard to believe the 70s was such a good decade for music that so many things still sound modern.
Can I make a recommendation of vgm jazz by The Consouls - it's really good stuff. They will be doing a couple of live gigs in Japan next month.
@@cooldebt thanks, i'll be sure to check their material
This is the hidden gem i needed today, thanks going out to the universe for this. Gave me a lot of renewed perspective musically.
FORMIDABLE CREACIÓN!!!
Una auténtica obra de arte vanguardista, en la inspiradora generación del jazz fusión de los 70...GRAN Y MÍTICA CORRIENTE.
The reverb/delay tone on the lead guitar in heated point is tasteful as all hell, this is incredible
The youtube algorithm does quite a good job with music. I have listened to this album like 10 times in two weeks.
No lo escuche en los 70's...muy bueno. Tuvimos la suerte de escuchar muy buenas bandas ..
this album is so good omg
I wanna smile once again. Whit this album im gonna get there straitgh away.*ONE LOVE*
Five seconds in and I'm hooked
I just found this right now, I have no idea who this is or why I'm here... But WOW this is amazing, and now im a huge fan Akira!
first track taken me to the highest psychedelic grade and this, without drugs.... seriously, it's really really a good first track, I could enjoy this at any hour of days and nigths
Now I smoked good joint.... and that's always good !!!!!!!!!!!
@@batardtronique always
고마워요! 덕분에 끝내주는 연주자를 알았어요♡
Nossa! Esse disco é uma obra prima! 😀👍
Salve Akira
I've been listening to this album & enjoying it for the past two days ..... quite good... thank you for the upload....
You are here at last .. isn’t that wonderful 😁
Talk about an intro...damn!
Amazing!
Note: I was here once...
Найкращий період у музиці
Bless you for putting this up on TH-cam holy shit
Czasami potrzebuje się rzeczy o których nawet nie ma się pojęcia, że istnieją. Ten album to jedna z takich spraw. Mistrzostwo!
This Japanese jazz musician and his vampiric buffalos sure have some smooth tunes!
Man this is crazy awesome!
Niiice 🔥 The Japanese jazz 🎺 scene is on point ✌🏾
Some of the best fusion that didn't come from the Zappa or Davis alumni.
Increíble este álbum, los vientos y las guitarras. Una maravilla.
Saludos de Uruguay
My poor english, just saying : i like it.
I like it
Your English checks out.
I like it
I love it
I loveadore it.
Ok. I'm apparently a giant Akira ishokawa fan now. I don't think I've ever had ocassion to use this word properly in this way. That was BOSS.
i love that these tunes jazz albumes have been popping up on my yt, i love it
TH-cam recommendations be off the chain lately. This is PHENOMENAL
I play the opening song every time I walk in a room.
This is surprisingly amazing.
Pedazo de Álbum, nada que decir Jazz una maquina Japón en los 70.
Thlis Kind of Jazz is very good! Thanx so much👍🌺!
I keep getting recommended this type of stuff now because I stumbled upon one video that was awesome and I'm glad I get this recommended.
Wow this suddenly came on my phone as I was walking in the sunshine and thought this is very good. It's got 'Nucleus' vibes about it
Praying this gets rereleased on vinyl one day soon.
Honestly curious as to why? Is it just a collector thing?
Thanks rabbi.
This is so good, im at a loss for words....that doesnt happen very often!!!
Jazz like this makes me wanna lock myself, sip on some fine whiskey and do nose skiing.
Most Jazz musicians preferred heroin lol
you, sir, know how to party
Chuck Mangione might join you ?
I hear ya.
@@rustykuntz94 cannabis*
I wish there was a live version of this!
Wonderful jazz- rock album!✨✨✨
Now I know what Jotaro's dad was up to during the 70s. Ngl would've killed to listen to him play his sax it must've been amazing.
Altíssimos músicos.....muito bom......gratidao
표지부터 명곡일 줄 알았다
Never, I said N E V E R skip a recommend japanese jazz video.
I always play this when I do my french homework and I love it this way, I am way more relaxed and I do better ❤ thank you