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On August 5, 2023, it was the reissue of the album Soul Samba / Holiday in Brazil by Norio Maeda Meets Tin Pan Alley with the Japanese label Crown. The original dates from 1971 with Panam. He was part of the Konosuke Saijo Quartet along with Masahiko Osaka, Takeshi Inomata and Yasuo Arakawa. Also he took part in Takeshi Inomata And His Friends in 1975 for the album Get Happy with Audio Lab Record along with Konosuke Saijo, Tadayuki Harada and Yasuo Arakawa. The Norio Maeda Trio was with Takeshi Inomata, Tatsuro Takimoto and Yasuo Arakawa. The Super Tri Piano's released two albums in 1977 and 1978 with Hiromasa Suzuki and Masahiko Satoh. The Wind Breakers roster included Donald Bailey, Harada Yasushi, Jiro Inagaki, Konosuke Saijo, Shungo Sawada, Shunzo Sunahara, Susumu Kazuhara, Tadayuki Harada, Takeshi Inomata, Tetsuo Fushimi, and Yasuo Arakawa. Norio Maeda & The Playboys released an album in 1969 titled The Playboy's Manual. Le 5 août 2023, c'était la réédition de l...

On January 13, 2023, it was the reissue of the Something album by Steve Marcus / Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media with Beatball / Cobrarose Records / Light In The Attic. Initially, the record was out in 1971 with Columbia in Japan. Inagaki formed the jazz-rock group "Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media" in 1969, which was active throughout the 1970s and included Shunzo Ohno, Tetsuo Fushimi, Ryo Kawasaki (guitar), Masahiko Satoh (piano, keyboards, bass, arranger) and Takeshi Inomata (drums) in his various formations. Steve Marcus was born in the Bronx and he gained experience playing in the bands of Stan Kenton, Herbie Mann and Larry Coryell from 1963 to 1973. His first album as a frontman included an arrangement of the Beatles song, "Tomorrow Never Knows". He worked with jazz drummer Buddy Rich for the last twelve years of Rich's life. After Rich's death, Marcus led the group and renamed it Buddy's Buddies. His piece "Half a Heart" (1968) has a riff ver...