Jiro Inagaki & Funky Stuff

Jiro Inagaki and Soul Media, Funky Stuff (1975).

Hiromasa Suzuki (arrangement, electric piano), Hajime Ishimatsu (drums), Akira Okazawa (electric bass), Hiroshi Yasukawa (guitar), Jiro Inagaki (tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, flute, production), Takashi Imai (trombone). A new find for me, tossed up via the algorithms of the T’Oobs. Tight playing!

Steeleye Span & Lovely on the Water

Since NSR is exploring Steely Dan and Steely Shodan, it only seems proper to revisit the often confused trans-Atlantic 70s counterpart. (The name mixup is a running joke for about 4 decades now.) From Please to See the King (1971).