Here's an album featuring some of the hottest Japanese jazz bands in the late 50's recorded live at Tokyo night clubs, the bands are:
SHOJI SUZUKI AND HIS RHYTHM ACES
AKIRA WATANABE AND HIS EMBERS FIVE
FUMIO MATSUMOTO AND HIS MUSIC MAKERS
TORU MORI AND HIS SIX POINTS PLUS ONE
SEIJI HIRAOKE QUINTET
HIROSHI WATANABE AND HIS STAR DUSTERS
Great jazzy blues-rock album from the Keef Hartley Band. Unfortunately the last track is missing because of damage.... You can download the 2008 re-mastered version and read about how this album came to be on this fantastic blog:
I'm always looking for music from the great M. Mashabi, here's a cassette with songs from him and from Johana Satar, the sound is not very good so I'm still looking.....
Alto Saxophone – Lem Davis
Baritone Saxophone – Charlie Fowlkes
Bass – Walter Page
Drums – Jo Jones
Guitar – Freddie Green
Liner Notes – George Avakian, John Hammond
Piano – Sir Charles Thompson
Tenor Saxophone – Julian Dash
Trombone – Henderson Chambers, Urbie Green
Trumpet – Buck Clayton, Joe Newman
http://www.adrive.com/public/aQxRPg/buck clayton jam session.rar
Before there was the great Bill Hicks, before there was Richard Pryor and all those other great stand-up comedians who weren't afraid to tell it how it is, there was the great Lenny Bruce, he who pioneered it all....
Here is the Berkeley Concert, recorded in 1965, this version came out in 1971 and was produced by Herb Cohen and the great Frank Zappa....