J. Jazz - Deep Modern Jazz From Japan, Vol 5 (3-LP Vinyl)

The J Jazz series has quietly become one of the most essential excavation projects in contemporary reissue culture, pulling forward a generation of Japanese musicians who absorbed hard bop, post-bop, and modal jazz from the American masters and then bent those forms into something distinctly their own. Japan's studio infrastructure in the 1970s and early 1980s was remarkably fertile, producing recordings of audiophile quality that largely never circulated beyond domestic pressings.