It’s great to hear this Asian Jazz, with their traditional instruments, but still within a jazz structure. I’d love to hear stuff like this from every country, and I know we have many people from all over the world. I’ve tried many searches on YouTube and have come unsuccessful.
Wow, those hair-dos! Interesting music though.
My International Jazz experience isn’t very far from mainstream, being European and Latin with close to pop cross-overs:
Maria Elana
Petit Fleur
Mas Que Nada
and
Pata Pata
Are these even jazz?
Have you listened to Hiroshima? Their debut album was in 1979 and their music varies with a mix of modern jazz, rock and R&B on koto and taiko as well as guitars and keyboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_(band)
Odori from their second album is incredibly beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe93DJMncqg
I love the bamboo flutes! I’ll check them out when I get home. Thanks!
Jarosław Śmietana is a Polish jazz artist.
But the problem with this notion is that most foreign jazz artists are playing traditional jazz tunes on traditional instruments. When it strays from that, it falls more into the “World Music” category with tunes like the OP listed. For instance, Mas Que Nada is in the samba tradition of Brazil. The album Talking Timbuktu with Ali Farka Toure and Ry Cooder is brilliant, and combines African and modern instruments, but I wouldn’t call it jazz.
This one too
I found a channel with nothing but instrumental jazz, with some ooh and ahhhhs by female voices (which I like)
Stelvio Cipriani - Monica - YouTube – it’s softer, probably sounds like music that would be in older movies, but I’ve liked everything so far.
One artist worth investigating is Salah Ragab, the “Father of Egyptian Jazz”.
Shakti is a jazz group led by John McLaughlin that incorporates a lot of Indian classical music.