Also, jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara has received worldwide fame since her debut in 2003, played with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke, as well as produced several albums with her own group, "Sonicbloom".
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On Kogun (1974) they first utilized traditional instruments, such as the tsuzumi, and Long Yellow Road (1975) features an adaptation of a melody from the Japanese tradition of court music ("Children in the Temple Ground").
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Currently he is working with Japanese jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara.
2009: Nik Weston presents j.a.m / Jazztronik - Japanese Jazz With Attitude (Mukatsuku Records)
Pimpoint is the fourth studio album by Japanese jazz group Soil & "Pimp" Sessions.
The style of music has made him a significant presence within the underground rap community, and he has achieved recognition beyond the scene for rapping "Battlecry", the theme song of the hip-hop-influenced chanbara anime Samurai Champloo, produced by Japanese jazz rap DJ Nujabes.
The album cover was a solarized photograph by renowned Japanese jazz photographer K. Abe, and the record labels designed by Frank Olinsky (the future designer of the MTV logo from Manhattan Design).
This mini-album contains 2 covers: one is from the well-known Japanese Jazz-singer Bird and one is from the famous reggea-singer Bob Marley