Danceable Jazz! Classic and Recommended Albums of Acid Jazz

When it comes to acid jazz, those who lived through the boom will remember the excitement well, but many younger music fans might feel, “It has a stylish image, but I’m not quite sure what it actually sounds like.” Rather than a strict genre, acid jazz is better described as a culture born from the club generation.

In Japan, too, with the emergence of bands like Suchmos, it feels like a sudden wave of reevaluation is underway.

So this time, focusing on classic albums that fueled the acid jazz boom, I’ve put together a selection of records that feel especially worth hearing now that we’ve moved into the 2020s.