Jazz fusion

Jazz Night Illustrated Poster series

Yasuaki Shimizu’s rare 1982 album Kakashi is being rereleased this November, for the first time outside of Japan, by WRWTFWW and Palto Flats.

Jaco Pastorius

Miles Davis Art

Miles Davis, Best magazine, 1973

Jazz board🎼

ARP2600. Weather Reports main man Joe Zawinul showing off the beast.

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JAzz Rock

The 79-year-old pianist and composer talks about admiring Kendrick Lamar, making a new album, and calling jazz an international — not just an American — music.

Himiko Kikuchi / Flying Beagle (Side B)

Masayoshi Takanaka

In the world of jazz there is one artist collected the world over who has never played an instrument not even a note of music but has left his mark on the jazz culture. Illustrator David Stone Martin (1913 – 1992) was one of the most prolific and influential graphic designers of the postwar era, with his signature hand-sketched graphics with two or three primary colours, perfectly capturing the energy and spontaneity of the jazz idiom. For biographical notes on Martin see part 1. For earlier…