Ino Hidefumi - Living Message

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

I am not aware of "INO" instead of "Ino." He uses "INO hidefumi" Anyway, "Spartacus" is big hit and released 1st album, "Satisfaction." Since then, everybody have expected 2nd album as soon. It take almost 2 years and finally release 2nd album.

High Five Quintet - Five For Fun

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Do you know "High Five Quintet"? Most of you know they play with Mario Biondi.. High Five Quintet is a group and from Italy. Who play for? Fabrizio Bosso (tp, flh), Daniele Scannapieco (ts), Luca Mannutza (p), Pietro Ciancaglini (b), Lorenzo Tucci (ds) Check this The Blue ...

Native - Just Four

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

I was so busy... Anyway, Native is Japanese Nu Jazz group and they have high popularity in oversea especially Europe. Their play style is acoustic jazz, bossa, and spiritual. If you like my introduced artists, you also like it!

VA - Routine Jazz Schema selected by Kei Kobayashi

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Do you know Schema Record? The Schema record is based on Italy and releases Nu Jazz, Club Jazz, and European Jazz sounds. Who belongs with this record company? Gerardo Frisina, The Dining Rooms, Toco, Mario Biondi, S-Tone and so on... Kei Kobayashi compiles only Schema ...

VA - Jazzfrola series for Nu Jazz beginner

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Jazzflora is complied Nu Jazz songs. Povo, The Five Corners Quintet, Koop, and Jukka Eskola make nice Nu Jazz songs. I do not introduce "The Five Corners Quintet", but their songs are so great. I will intorduce later. Anyway, in prevous post, I review "Koop", ...