I feel ill-equipped to talk about jazz. I don’t have the musical language to get into all the modes and chord changes and techniques, but I know I love it, even if my knowledge of the genre is limited. So a few months ago I went and – thanks to LaserCD – took a shallow dive into the Japanese jazz scene in the 70s. So this week I’m going to spend digging in and getting some short reviews in, trying to understand what about it works for me. We’re kicking off with a good one: the Masaru Imada Trio extended to a quintet cranking out a quartet of tunes on Green Caterpillar.

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