Jiro Inagaki
Twenty-one albums from Jiro Inagaki's prolific commercial period on CBS/Sony Japan. Cover sessions, pop-jazz dates, and the steady studio work that established him as one of the most-recorded saxophonists in Japanese jazz before the soul-jazz turn. Split into two parts.
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This era has been split into two parts to keep each browse view manageable. Each part has full reviews, personnel details, Apple Music audio previews, and album art.
Eleven records from the first two years of Inagaki's CBS/Sony tenure. Cover sessions of American pop, soul, and movie themes that put his horn in front of mainstream Japanese listeners.
Ten records from the final two years of the CBS/Sony run, including Dosojin (released on Nippon Columbia), the most jazz-substantial of the early-period records and a bridge toward the soul-jazz turn that followed.