Ze Instaweek

Splendid Columbia set from 1962, 3 years after Lady Day's death, comprising a booklet and 3 LPs. 

Killer jacket by Blue Note: Indestructible.

Good old Lester Young having a break.

Mingus in the Far East : Mingus Dynasty.

Jackie Mc Lean bio published in 2012.

Old school electric Funky hip-hop: Shango.

May the electric Funk be wid ya dis week

The week in Ig: drums and pix

Considering seventies fusion drummers, you have 2 guys: Billy Cobham and Alphonse Mouzon. Here are 2 LPs recorded in Germany in 1976 and 1977: fusion at its best.

Great live, the best album of Grover Washington Jr., on Kudu label.

Sergei Vasiliev

Tokyo photo 2013 was last week-end...

Yuji Sasaki

Klein

More records!!!

Zojoji

Skyline

Funky Tooooooooown!!!!!!

C ya next week...,

Analog Vinyl Sampling

Interesting concept



Analog Vinyl Sampling from Ishac Bertran on Vimeo.

Another week in Ig: pianissimo

Fabulous Herbie Nichols on Blue Note

Outcats, a book on jazz composers by Francis Davis.

Another genius pianist: Thelonious.

A bottle of sake with some sushi...

In maquereau sinon Rien....

Oursin dans ta face....

And last but not least, ze Amazing Bud Powell, another fabulous Blue Note record.... 

See you next week...

#1 Record Collector

This guy has over a million records in his vault....

Instagram weekly

Cool book about the Blue Note records label written by Richard Cook. 

So-called "spiritual jazz": Miroslav Vitous on bass.

More "spiritual jazz" for your eyes.

Life essentials besides records....

More reading about jazz by Leroi Jones: free-jazz and the birth of bop in Harlem.

Record shop in Ekoda: Oto Musi.

Typhoon jazz, it's the season.

Yakitori: energy much needed after a long digging day.

See you next week.

Week in Instagram

Excellent  LP from Freddie Hubbard, on a quality label : CTI. 

Great LP from Lee Morgan, with the great Joe Henderson on tenor: a must have.

Another gem from Joe Henderson: The elements.

Ow, have I already mentionned Joe Henderson in this post?

Best tacos in Tokyo: Carnival House in Shinjuku. Cheap and delicious home-made tortillas.

                 Pachinko!!!!!!!!

Kanno Masumi, lovely husky voice. This EP is from 1973: Zange.

Preparing for the Olympics in 2020: planning to compete in the foot licking competition.

Have a nice one fellas.