Niningashi - Heavy Way Artist_Kyoto Jazz Sextet and went on to become

and went on to become no doubt one of that century's major jazz figures

the coined word 'Japanese jazz' was coined

NOKKO and Yuka Kawamura spun over the disaster Not enough to shake the earth

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Niningashi - Heavy Way Artist_Kyoto Jazz Sextet and went on to becomeA long lost Japanese acid folk gem, Niningashis 1974 private press debut Heavy Way shimmers with originality, deft song writing and a dream like groove. Although he was training as a pharmacist, Kazuhisa Okubo was much more interested in prescribing musical medicine. A coming of age album, Heavy Way captured a turning point in Okubos life, and Japanese society more widely as a nostalgia for the pastoral calm of the traditional life, met the