Japanese Jazz
 

Does anyone listen to Japanese jazz? Or know any japanese jazz artist? I'm so angry, I listened to this beautiful jazz sounding like jpop song that was sung by a girl and a guy and I didn't get the name of the song but it was so classy and beautiful... *sigh* I hate it when I hear a good song and can't ge tthe name. Anyway, I thought this would make an insteresting topic... hopefully o.o :P lol

I do. My favorite artists at the moment are Hiromi and Keiko Matsui. United Future Organization is pretty good too.

I've heard of a group called Jazztronik (spelling?) , but I have no idea if
their genre is Jazz or not.

I listen to the Japanese Jazz Queen (to me). Yeah, Mika Nakashima! Shiina ringo has some pretty good jazz songs too. :yes

Amrai-chan!
Keiko Matsui is awesome! I've never known anyone else who listens to her!

My other favourite Japanese Jazz is Orange Pekoe (but its usually just the girl singing), and of course The Seatbelts :P

Awesome! :hi5 What's your favorite album?

At the moment mine is Whisper From The Mirror. She has so many it's hard to choose absolute favorites.

Orange Pekole is pretty good. I've only heard a few of thier songs. The Seatbelts are great but then I usally think that about anything Yoko Kanno is involved in. lol.

I don't know if you count Mika Nakashima & Ken Hirai as Jazz artistes

but if so , they're good

I like hiro's (from SPEED) first Cocco D'or album, which was covers of english songs.

And also, bird has some nice jazz songs; her songs cover a lot of different genres, I've heard some songs of hers that are jazz. ^^

bird got married recently, as I read in a tokyograph article. Link

It's been a while since I listed to bird's albums, but I think the last one I listened to was "bird's nest". :o

Anyone else heard of bird before, or listened to her songs?

haha mines actually whisper from the mirror too!
it was the first cd of hers i got.
i actually only have that, the ring, and deep blue.
ive heard her other stuff, but its so freakin' hard to find here. -_-

orange pekoe is totally awesome.
you really should listen to more of their stuff.
i think they have a new album coming out soon...

and yeah, anything yoko kanno is made of win. ^_^

If it's Japanese Jazz you're after, can't go far wrong with Ua ^^

Misia? she's good!

i know one japanese Jazz singer/band....BIRD with summer nude single! its electrojazz..^^

I only know Mika Nakashima, Ken Hirai and MISIA...I think they sing jazz :D

Yeah. Right now all I own is Moyo. Every time I think to buy another album something else comes up >_<

Yeah, I'm going to. :) any recomendations as far as songs go? A new album? I'll keep an eye out for it then. :)

Someone else mentioned Shiina Ringo, but I'd like to reinforce this: Ringo has some fantastic swing/jazz songs, I'll recommend some later. ;)

I like bird also. ^^

But I just thought her artist name was funny when I first found out about her, hehe. xD

emi fujita and ken hirai had been covering couples of jazz tracks too!

MISIA consider as jazz artist too? i only heard COLOR OF LIFE which sounds jazzy, any other jazz track from her?

Just to add...how many of you would consider ENKA to be jazzy? :s

It reminds me of Jazz at some points. Blues too. Mostly stuff from Meiko Kaji.

Anyone here a fan of Lisa Ono (小野リサ?) She's on the Bossa Nova side...but still. I love her voice.

Apparently she's singing with Ken Hirai on the song Heart of Mine from the album Ken's Bar II.

kinda to a certain extent

some of Kanjani8's material sound a bit jazzy too even though their main staple's enka

haha thats always the way eh?
older releases just keep getting pushed back on the 'to buy list'. i do it all the time :P

ooh, good orange pekoe songs:
sora no niwa
yawaraka na yoru
happy valley
gokurakucho~bird of paradise~
honeysuckle
joyful world
kirakira

most of their singles are actually pretty great come to think of it....

if youd wanna go just straight for an album, id suggest organic plastic music right away. its fantastic.
but all of their albums have something good to offer.
if you want me to share anything, just let me know. :) i have most of their albums.

I believe no one mentioned Paris Match. Definitely check them out. They're amazing and again, Orange Pekoe as well.

japanese jazz = Mika Nakashima!
recommended songs :
-Love Addict
-aroma
-SEVEN
-Rocking horse
-FEVER
-YOU'D BE SO NICE TO COME HOME TO
-WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD

though for me, she excels in singing soul/gospel & reggae a little bit more.. her jazz songs are always welcomed

im not sure why everyone thinks shiina ringo is jazz.

i have two of her albums, and while they have jazzy moments, i would never suggest her to a jazz enthusiast.

in other news, orange pekoe has a new album coming out this month! :D

Bumpimg up...

Orange Pekoe's new album comes out on the 26th yes?

it got moved back actually. now its coming out on the 8th of july.

guys...where i can find that japanese jazz stuff? i only have mika nakashima, Bird and Jil deco association.. (anyone know this band?)

Hey guys, I'm getting crazy @_@

I'm not able to find NOTHING of United Future Organization (I only find stuff from a band called "UFO" (but they haven't nothing to do with United Future Organization)), nor BIRD (google can't understand me when I tell him that is a japanese band of jazz and not a kind of japanese bird what I'm looking for xD), but I'm eager to listen new things of japanese jazz -____-

So...

i dont know much about jazz but my friend recommend Yutaka Ozaki with I love you

Oh, don't worry! Thank you anyway for replying! ^__^
I'm gonna look for her =D

YMCK is jazz like. Like they're 8-bit electronic but the melodies they use and their lyrics definately have a jazz flavor to them.

Just a suggestion

Pe'z?

She's got a fair amount of jazzy songs / re-arrangements (especially on Heisei Fuuzoku).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AzLVLzWs9s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4t3hom4lX4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0CY2e4glHE

:)