Jiro Inagaki
Twenty albums from Jiro Inagaki's prolific commercial period on Nippon Columbia. Cover sessions, pop-jazz dates, and the steady studio work that filled the years 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 three years of Inagaki's Nippon Columbia tenure. Cover sessions of American pop, soul, and movie themes that put his horn in front of mainstream Japanese listeners.
Nine records from 1971 and 1972, the last two years of this era, 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.