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Following Shabaka Hutchings’ adoption of the shakuhachi flute, which features heavily in his new album Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace, Clive Bell discusses other players and significant recordings featuring the instrument

Bandcamp / Buy One of the many hidden narratives of post-WWII Japan is its long-running jazz scene. This taste for the most American of art forms intensified after the war, when a crackdown on what was considered the music of the enemy ended, the interests of stationed U.S. troops helped reignite the scene, and, later, touring legends found a willing market. From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, Japan was a hub of jazz invention, even if much of the music recorded was released on severely limited runs or private presses, meaning it barely traveled within the country, let alone beyond ...

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Merch for this release: Compiled by jazz aficionados Tony Higgins and Mike Peden, BBE’s J Jazz: Deep Modern Jazz From Japan continues the work of celebrating the music of Japan’s rich jazz history. For the third installment of the series, Peden, Higgins, and the BBE crew continue to peel back even more musical layers, unearthing private pressings and rare cuts. The album opens with Yasuhiro Kohno Trio + One’s ambitious composition “Song Of Island.” Kohno sets the stage with some furious and abstract playing, gliding up and down the keyboard with passi...