Bamboo [CD]

Minoru Muraoka – Bamboo [CD]

A Japanese jazz and breakbeat rarity prized by DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist and Egon. Minoru Muraoka plays the shakuhachi, a traditional bamboo flute, with a band on koto and tsuzumi drum, blending traditional Japanese instruments with Western jazz in his "shakuhachi jazz" sound. It mixes covers of jazz and pop standards like "Take Five" and "Scarborough Fair" with two originals. Reissued by Mr Bongo.

Take Five
Nogamigawa
The Positive and the Negative
And I Love Her
The House of the Rising Sun
Do You Know the Way to San Jose
Soul Bamboo
Call Me
Scarborough Fair

Genre: Jazz Funk, Jazz Fusion.