If your Japanese jazz collection is lacking a little, you might want to pick up Orang-Utan. It is a session of thoughtful, explorative free jazz that leans at times into fusion flavours.

Girl Talk is an essential listen for jazz enthusiasts, celebrated for its groundbreaking sound engineering and the profound artistry of the Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio.

Stan Getz at his best. This live album is a classic. And having it on SACD is a big plus. Great sound for these classic songs.

There's nothing quite like hearing a group of master musicians (and friends) getting together and just having a good blow. Steve Gadd really gets up for this.

A stunning presentation of one of the most beloved acoustic albums of the 21st century. The UHQCD format is a perfect match for Norah Jones intimate vocal style.

You really cant go wrong with Blowup, Misty, and Midnight Sugar. Tsuyoshi Yamamoto and Isao Suzuki are always worth listening to, but these sessions are amazing 1970's Japanese Jazz artefacts. The SACD and Vinyl are the best way to listen to this, although if you only have CD there is nothing wrong with that version either. The warm analogue feel of the SACD layer is amazing. Who said SACD is dead?

Very sympathetic playing by all the musicians with tasty tunes (after all, the Duke wrote them) and solos by all. The mood is very relaxed and swinging. Incidentally, this is a very fine recording.

Misty is a very accessible and easily enjoyable album, so I don't think it would be hard to digest for most jazz-friendly music fans.

Mine arrived at the intersection between traditional and unfamiliar, mannerly and chaotic. It is a critical album in a crucial period for Japanese jazz—the sound of everything changing and a new order taking form.

The eternal bible of jazz audio fans, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto's trio "Misty for Direct Cutting" record, which is one of the best records in the history of jazz, is back in a DSD version!

Sweet for K by the Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio is a critically acclaimed contemporary jazz album from 2024, a tribute to pianist Erroll Garner, featuring melodic sophistication and rhythmic finesse in a collection of ballads and standards.

I have loved this for 25 years and have bought French and US CD releases over the years. The sound of this Blu-spec CD2 is far superior.

Very good document of this period and line up with the legendary AH; a good FM capture, nice fat sound, pretty much as best as could be for an FM source. Not digital source, afaik...

This is a compilation worth having. Having different trios on one record, with more than one version of the same song, makes it very interesting to hear the nuances each player brings to the vibe. I’ve heard a lot of complaints about the noise floor being too high on vinyl, but the CD version sounds wonderful, surprisingly clear for tapes this old. Great packaging from the original source and from CDJapan; it includes a fully translated booklet in Japanese, and the obi covers the entire back, translating the original back cover.

The master on this reissue is noticeably different from the original vinyl and first CD, but still with the original character of sound. Great edition for completionists since it comes with all the alternate takes, also great material for those who study Mr. Evans playing, the alternate takes let you compare directly with the chosen versions for official release, and have a closer look at the approach Evans had to improvising the same solo with different expression or nuances, see how he developed his style in these early stages. Comes with a couple interesting add-ons, liner notes and something that looks like a small poster, not a fan of paper sleeve packaging because of the cd scratching but still can be handled with care.

I love jazz and I love Ghibli so this has become my new favorite soundtrack. Every song feels fresh and the compositions don’t get boring. I enjoy listening to every track on the CD. I like playing it while drawing and painting. Relaxing and cheerful.

Giant Steps is one of the acknowledged masterworks of jazz and this special two-CD edition was a good idea. These recordings are important as one of the key sessions of modern jazz in 1959 and as recordings that shaped jazz thereafter. Coltrane is on great form from beginning to end, faithfully followed and supported by piano, bass and drums.

A wonderful collaboration between a horn player and a singer, perhaps the greatest of all time. This delicate, seductive album stands immortalised in time as tribute, a nod to the genius that was Coltrane/Hartman. The more you listen to it, the more subtle genius details reveal themselves to you, in particular how the saxophone helps tell the story with nuance, sensitivity and re-spect.

A terrific recording of nice, softly swinging standards and a few other things. Steve Gadd is a great brush player and plays them on almost all of this recording. Eddie Gomez plays like you'd expect, awesome. With the background these gentlemen have in so many different kinds of music, it seems like they are relaxing and enjoying each other's playing.

There are only a handful of contemporary guitarists that one must consistently keep abreast of in order to understand the present state of music. Along with Pat Metheny, Kurt Rosenwinkel is in that tier, so every release is always a thrill.