Preview rare Japanese jazz album ‘Tachibana’
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Listen to our exclusive album sampler of rare Japanese jazz gem Tachibana by the Tohru Aizawa Quartet, now available to pre-order from BBE Music.
The album, Tachibana, was recorded in 1975 and, until included on the J Jazz compilation, was unknown except to a small group of obsessive Japanese jazz collectors. The privately pressed record was the only album made by the Quartet, four amateur musicians who were university students at the time. The session was financed by a local businessman, Ikujiroh Tachibana, who pressed up a few hundred copies to use as a business card. In the intervening 40 odd years since its recording, few copies have surfaced, making it an in-demand yet elusive artefact from the golden age of Japanese jazz. BBE Records are honoured to present a fully authorised reissue of this holy grail, licensed directly from the band themselves.
More information and a link to order vinyl and CD can be found here.
