As Mondo Grosso, Japanese track-master Shinichi Osawa has acted alone and with various vocalists and collaborators — ranging from Monday Michiru to N'dea Davenport to Tania Maria — to produce some of the most stylish acid jazz, house, and R&B produced in his country during the '90s.
Sly & the Family Stone harnessed all of the disparate musical and social trends of the late '60s, creating a wild, brilliant fusion of soul, rock, R&B, psychedelia, and funk that broke boundaries down without a second thought.
Japan has produced an impressive assemblage of jazz pianists, from Toshiko Akiyoshi and Makoto Ozone. And now, well into the change of the 21st century, the pianist / composer Hiromi is the latest in that line of amazing musicians.
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Oleg Kireev Quartet
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Dariel Rene & Hot Havana Jazz Trio
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Algorithm
Moscow, Alexey Kozlov Club
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Vivian Sessoms
Moscow, Alexey Kozlov Club
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Christian Gálvez Organ Trio
Moscow, Alexey Kozlov Club
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Saxophonist Nicole Glover had to face herself to find her sound
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Christian McBride is shepherding the next generation of jazz musicians
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