Jiro Inagaki - 1973 - In The Groove

Jiro Inagaki & His Soul Media

1973 

In The Groove

01. That's How I Feel

02. Blue Blood

03. It's Impossible

04. Put It Where You Want It

05. Crazy Medicine

06. Joie De Vivre

07. Papa Hooper's Barrel House Groove

08. Thrill Is Gone

09. Raven Speaks

10. Samba Chimba

Jiro Inagaki: Alto & tenor saxophone

Tsunehide Matsuki: Guitar

Takeshi Kamachi: Electric piano

Akira Okazawa: Bass

Takashi Imai: Trombone

Hajime Ishimatsu: Drums

Jiro Inagaki left the Jazz Rock to focus himself on the Jazz Funk movement, with an album as The Jazz Crusaders know how best to do, as evidenced the cover songs of Wilton Felder (That's How I Feel) & Joe Sample (Put It Where You Want It). For this new route, Jiro has recruited new members for his Soul Media group featuring Akira Okazawa, Tsunehide Matsuki & Norio Maeda in charge of the arrangements and who contributes to three compositions. This blend of Smooth Jazz & Funk, approaches of the sound from CTI recordings that Creed Taylor has could produced in the seventies.