BEST RECORDS IN 1965 BY CRITICS IN JAPAN

Here I got SWING JOURNAL, Jan.1966.

SWING JOURNAL had a lot of interesting articles.

There is a pole by jazz critics in Japan, called “BEST JAZZ RECORDS IN 1965”.

Following is the result. It is interesting to see each critic had his own preference, however, 10 critics result became highly reasonable !!

1. A LOVE SUPREME/ JOHN COLTRANE
2. PITHECANTHROPUS ERECTUS/ CHARLES MINGUS　　
3. THE LAST RECORDING/ ERIC DOLPHY
4. MY FUNNY VALENTINE/ MILES DAVIS
5. E.S.P./ MILES DAVIS
6. COLLABORATION/ M.J.Q. WITH LAURINDO ARMEIDA
7. GUITAR FORMS/ KENNY BURREL
8. -sorry-
9. MILES DAVIS IN EUROPE
10. THE INDIVIDUALISM OF GIL EVANS
11. FOUR FOR TRANE/ ARCHIE SHEPP
12. CANADIANA SUITE/ OSCAR PETERSON
13. STITT PLAYS BIRD/ SONNY STITT
14. MINGUS REVISITTED/ CHARLES MINGUS
15. SONNY ROLLINS ON IMPULSE

10 critics in Japan polled.

They are;

Masaaki Awamura

Toshio Honda

Teruo Isono

Yozo Iwanami

Jiro Kubota

Kiyoshi Koyama

Yoshio Maki

Hisamitsu Noguchi

Jinichi Uekusa

Shoichi Yui

Quite unfortunately all of them are already left.

They are alive mainly on magazines like SWING JOURNAL. It is so nice to read again to see them !!