J.A.M. - Just A Maestro - 2008

国内のみならず海外でも高い人気を博しているSOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS(以下SOIL)のピアノの丈青、ベースの秋田ゴールドマン、ドラムのみどりんの3人によるピアノ・トリオ、J.A.M。グループ名はそれぞれの頭文字をとって名づけられた。ジャズをジャズとして真正面から向き合うスタイルとピアノ・トリオというシンプルな編成は、SOILとは異なったサウンド・スケープを描き出す。 　都内のジャズ・クラブなどで神出鬼没的に出演、’07年&'08年とFUJI ROCK FESTIVALのField of Heavenに連続出演するなど、SOILと並行して活動中。ノン・ストップで繰り出されるビートの洪水の中を、鍵盤の旋律がめくるめく変化、フィジカルなパワーとトルクの上に、斬新な閃きの連続とダンス・ミュージックとしての高揚感が満ち溢れたパフォーマンスは、ジャズの捉え方に一石を投じる。 　'08年3月、1stアルバム『Just A Maestro』をリリース、'10年5月には2ndアルバム『Just Another Mind』をリリースする。 ■J.A.M Official

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin' - 1959

Arthur "Art" Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990), known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an AmericanGrammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader. He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.

Along with Kenny Clarke and Max Roach, he was one of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming. He is known as a powerful musician and a vital groover; his brand of bluesy, funky hard bop was and continues to be profoundly influential on mainstream jazz. For more than 30 years his band, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, included many young musicians who went on to become prominent names in jazz. The band's legacy is thus not only known for the music it produced, but as a proving ground for several generations of jazz musicians; Blakey's groups are matched only by those of Miles Davis in this regard.

Blakey was inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame (in 1982), the Grammy Hall of Fame (in 2001), and was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.

This was Blakey's first album for Blue Note in several years, after a period of recording for a miscellany of labels, and marked both a homecoming and a fresh start. The album stands as one of the archetypal hard bop albums of the era, for the intensity of Blakey's drumming and the work of Morgan, Golson and Timmons, and for its combination of old-fashioned gospel and blues influences with a sophisticated modern jazz sensibility. The album was identified by Scott Yanow in his Allmusic essay "Hard Bop" as one of the 17 Essential Hard Bop Recordings.

Soil & "Pimp" Sessions - Pimpin' - 2004

Soil & "Pimp" Sessions (stylised as SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS) is a Japanese club jazz sextet who formed in Tokyo, Japan in 2001.They are known for their energetic live performances, having coined the term "death jazz" to describe their music. The band was born out of Tokyo's club scene, when Shacho and Tabu Zombie started including live jam sessions in DJ sets. Gradually the other members were invited, the band's line-up was finalised and the DJ sets dropped.

The band's adrenalin-fuelled live sets started to create a buzz on the Tokyo live scene, and in 2003 they became the first unsigned band to perform at Japan's Fuji Rock Festival. They were well received there and in the following months record companies were scrambling to offer contracts. JVC Victor won the battle, and summer 2004 saw the release of the mini-album Pimpin'.

Lester Young & Teddy Wilson - Press and Teddy - 1956

Lester Willis Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959),[1] nicknamed "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. He also played trumpet, violin, and drums.

Coming to prominence while a member of Count Basie's orchestra, Young was one of the most influential players on his instrument, playing with a cool tone and using sophisticated harmonies. He invented or popularized much of the hipster ethos which came to be associated with the music.

Theodore Shaw "Teddy" Wilson (November 24, 1912 - July 31, 1986) was an American jazz pianist whose sophisticated and elegant style was featured on the records of many of the biggest names in jazz including Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald.

Jabberloop - Revenge Of The Space Monster - 2009

JABBERLOOP, the energetic and charismaticJapanese club jazz band, was born in 2004 in Kyoto, Japan.

The band is composed of five members playing the Saxophone, Trumpet, Keyboard, Bassguitar, and Drums. They mainly performed at an average of over 200 street lives a year and sold ten thousands of their independentproduction CDs.

One of their music CDs, “UGETSU”, crossed the ocean and caught Mr.Nik Weston’s attention who is the record label owner ofMukatsuku Records. UGETSU was released in London as 12inch EP in May 2007.

After being introduced in BBC Radio “WORLDWIDE” by Mr. Gilles Peterson, they made their way into the media world both at home and in abroad.

Oliver Nelson - The Blues And The Abstract Truth - 1961

Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri – October 28, 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arrangerand composer.

The Blues and the Abstract Truth is a jazz album by Oliver Nelson recorded in February 1961. It remains Nelson's most acclaimed album. It features a lineup of notable musicians: Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy (his last appearance on a Nelson album following a series of collaborations recorded for Prestige), Bill Evans (his only appearance with Nelson), Paul Chambers and Roy Haynes. Baritone saxophonist George Barrow does not take a solo but is a key feature of the subtle voicings of Nelson's arrangements.

The album is an exploration of the mood and structure of the blues, though only some of the tracks are in conventional 12-bar blues form. In this regard, though it is not modal jazz, it may be seen as a continuation of the trend towards greater harmonic simplicity and subtlety via reimagined versions of the blues that was instigated by Miles Davis's Kind of Blue in 1959 (Evans and Chambers played on both albums). Of the pieces on Nelson's album, "Stolen Moments" is the most famous; it is a sixteen-bar piece (in an eight-six-two pattern), though the solos are on a conventional 12-bar minor-key blues structure in C minor. "Hoe-Down" is built on a forty-four-bar structure (with thirty-two-bar solos based on "rhythm changes"). "Cascades" modifies the traditional 32-bar AABA form by using a 16-bar minor blues for the A section, stretching the form to a total of 56 bars. The B-side of the album contains three tracks that hew closer to 12-bar form: "Yearnin'", "Butch and Butch" and "Teenie's Blues" (which begins with an essential 12-bar solo Bass intro by Chambers).

Indigo Jam Unit - Demonstration - 2006

Indigo Jam Unit (stylised as indigo jam unit) are a Japanese jazz band formed in the city of Osaka, Japan in 2005.

Indigo Jam Unit, a quartet, originated out of a trio consisting of Yoshichika Tarue (piano), Katsuhiko Sasai (double bass), and Isao Wasano (percussion and drums). In 2005, the trio had been playing live and working with different member setups when they started working with independent record label producer Kenichi Tateiwa of Basis Records, who suggested they add Takehiro Shimizu on drums to the line up. Shimizu joined the band in the months leading up to the recording of their first album, DEMONSTRATION, in August 2005. Shimizu currently (November, 2011) divides his time between Osaka, Japan, and New York City, NY.