Jun Fukamachi - Spiral Steps

Year : 1976
Label : Kitty
Genre : Jazz
Style : Jazz Funk, Fusion, Space Age
   

"Spiral Steps" is a Space-Age Funk & Future Jazz album featuring the Breckers Brothers and the KORG synthesizer in showcase. Recorded for the first time outside Japan, it's divided in two recordings sessions, Tokyo & New York, including japanesese musicians among his regular sidemen Ray Ohara & Ponta Murakami, Akira Okazawa, Kazumi Watanabe, Anthony Jackson, Barry Rogers, Lou Marini from Blood, Sweat And Tears plus Jake H Conception as guest. Titles include the disco-boogie "In The Holiday Groove" feat. Jake H. Conception & "Taft 1082", the insane heavy funk "Spiral Steps" and the highlight suite for synthesizer "Scoto Phonobine Type I to III". All tracks composed & arranged by Jun Fukamachi.

MUSICIANS : Jun Fukamachi - keyboards - Shuici Ponta Murakami - drums - Akira Okazawa, Ray Ohara & Anthony Jackson - bass - Masayoshi Takanaka, Kazumi Watanabe - guitar - Randy Brecker - trumpet - Barry Rogers - trombone - Jake H.Conception, Michael Brecker & Lou Marini - tenor saxophone 

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Teruo Nakamura - Rising Sun

Year : 1976
Label : Kitty
Genre : Jazz
Style : Jazz Funk

"Rising Sun" is a typical Jazz Funk album, among best japanese productions reminicent of the Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters era, including Latin Jazz with samba beats (Rising Sun, Precious One), Electronic grooves (Red Shoes), Heavy Hancock's Funk (Cat), Smooth Jazz (Morning Mist / Steppin' With Lord) and Reggae (Sweet Pea & Collard Greens). Teruo Nakamura is a japanese producer, multi-instrumentalist and jazz bassist based in New York since 1964. He studied double bass alongside Reggie Workman and played for drummer Roy Haynes on "Hip Ensemble" released in 1971. Recorded at A&R Studio, New York City, "Rising Sun" is his second studio album introducing his new group "The Rising Sun Band" featuring special guest musician, the organist Dr Lonnie Smith, and including guitarist Shiro Mori, pianist Harry Whitaker, saxophonists Steve Grossman & Carter Jefferson, trumpeter John Mosley, drummer Art Gore.

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Jun Fukamachi - Triangle Session

Year : 1977
Label : Kitty
Genre : Jazz
Style : Jazz Funk, Space-Age, Electronic

"Triangle Session" is a live recording from amazing performance at Tokyo Seibu Theater in 1977 featuring keyboardist Jun Fukamachi & his KORG synthesizer. "Triangle Session" is the meeting between iconic japanese master of the electronic Jazz-Funk and The Brecker Brothers including US-Japan musicians such as trombonist Barry Rogers and guitarist Kenji Omura. Titles include two tracks extracted from "Second Phase" album released in 1977 (Stick Freighter, Plastic Echelon), an insane electro-funk version in up-tempo of "Perfidy" (from "Introducing Jun Fukamachi", 1974), an extended version of "Hateruma" (from "Rokuyu", 1975) and "Funky Sea, Funky Dew" composed by Michael Brecker.

MUSICIANS : Jun Fukamachi - keyboards - Michael Brecker - saxophone - Randy Brecker - trumpet - Barry Rogers - trombone - Kenji Takamizu - bass - Kenji Omura - guitar - Martin Willweber - drums - Motoya Hamaguchi & Pecker - percussions

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