弘田三枝子 Mieko Hirota - JAZZ TIME-HIROTA MIEKO BEST JAZZ ALBUM [PRE-ORDER, Release Date: 5-DEC-2026] Artist_中村照夫グループ Teruo Nakamura Group Takeshi Hama

Takeshi Hama

all this is effortlessly spun together from a glorious tapestry of our own pop histories

Japanese fusion has rapidly come back into the spotlight since around last year

the latest album developed over the course of a yearlong 2023–2024 tour

弘田三枝子 Mieko Hirota - JAZZ TIME-HIROTA MIEKO BEST JAZZ ALBUM [PRE-ORDER, Release Date: 5-DEC-2026] Artist_中村照夫グループ Teruo Nakamura Group Takeshi HamaThe analog album by Mieko Hirota, who became the first Japanese singer to perform at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1965 and is also highly regarded as a jazz vocalist, is being reissued. "JAZZ TIME" is an album featuring a wide selection of jazz vocal classics, with arrangements by Hiromasa Suzuki and Yuji Ohno, and performances by The Running Buffalo.