【レコードマップ/下北沢】Jazzy Sport Shimokitazawa in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo【Whole Earth Record Store Map】

【レコードマップ/下北沢】Jazzy Sport Shimokitazawa in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo【Whole Earth Record Store Map】

My name is Izumi. It’s Jazzy Sport Shimokitazawa. The main store is in Gakugei University , and the Shimokitazawa store has been open for exactly 10 years. It’s a dance studio, record store, and apparel store . The owner majored in jazz at university, and I heard that he combined the improvisational aspects of jazz with his love of sports, which he plays, and the sense of improvisation is similar, so he decided to name it Jazzy Sport . He was given a Fender guitar when he was in the sixth grade of elementary school, and started playing guitar. In middle school, he played in a band, but when he entered high school, the dance boom came and he was really influenced by the dancing and DJs, so he decided to dance, and that’s where he started. He started out thinking it would be easier if he didn’t have an instrument, but he needed sound to dance , so he played with a boombox, but then he bought a turntable and records, and I think at the time I was buying Kris Kross, Heavy D , House Of Pain, and other surface-cut records, so I used to buy DMR when it was in the basement, and also Manhattan Three. I think I used to buy Pharoah Sanders. I went to England many times for dance, and that’s where I discovered their live album, You’ve Got to Have It’s a song that’s like a freedom anthem, but it’s UK jazz . Before that I’d always been dancing to hip hop, so I only bought bootlegs and instrumentals without covers, and so hip hop house was popular, and there was British club culture, but that genre of music culture was there, so I was shocked that that kind of thing hadn’t come to Japan , and I felt like I had to bring the music back with me. I have a dance group, and one of the members was a backup dancer for various artists, and when he went to Iwate, the director Kobayashi was still working at a club in Iwate and was DJing, and he was playing Dizzy Gillespie’s songs at a hip hop event, and he was dancing in that style, so he responded and called out to him, and when he came back to Tokyo he said he had someone he’d like to introduce to Izumi, and that’s how I met the director for the first time. At the time, we were holding a jazz event every month in Roppongi, and I invited him to be the regular DJ there, and we started hanging out, and we even played in a band together. The director was at File Records, but he quit and we decided to start Jazzy Sport, and I also did a lot of stuff. I was exploring the possibility of not just dancing but also things surrounding dance, and I decided to join because I wanted to connect them all together. Before I started and opened this place, I ran just a dance studio at Tohokuzawa Station for about six years . Since I started in Shimokita, I’ve wanted to adapt to the needs of the local area , so because it’s Jazzy Sport, I’m not so conscious of a certain type of dancer or a certain type of person teaching, I prefer it if the customers tell me what they want to learn, so I always listen and try to include classes like that. I also teach about twice a month, and I teach UK Jazz , a step-style club culture that originated in the UK . About 70% of the students are kids, with some younger than me being three years older, and some even older than me, and some in their 60s. It’s a studio . Are there turntables? I usually do DJ parties, so I move the booth around and everyone dances while I DJ , like a practice session. I’ve been to New York and the UK a few times, and I think I like smaller places because you can get information out quickly and the UK’s small size suits me because you can walk around. Shimokita is also very close and crowded , so you can walk around and I like that a lot. My number one priority is danceable jazz, so I buy whatever I think is interesting to listen to. I guess it ‘s House, hip-hop , UK Jazz. The top box is all new releases, and I sort them alphabetically by genre, but I also sort them by label or artist, J, Dilla, Madlib , and the bottom box is used. There are a lot of original records, so the more expensive ones are…. I like Jackie Mittoo, but I also recommend Augustus Pablo . My recent recommended used items are genre-less, but I add more every week . House , There’s a lot of hip-hop disco music. Over there it’s more hip-hop and over here it’s more label-based, as well as new jazz and new soul. Especially around here there’s a lot of music you can dance to . There are a ton of CDs released by Jazzy Sport, and they have separate sections for DJ MITSU THE BEATS BUDAMUNK, and there’s also mixed CDs and a few imported CDs , but they mainly put out the new releases that come in every week, and it’s up to the staff to do what they like, so right now the top shelves are mainly jazz, and it’s pretty easy to see the genres like this . It’s a broken beats compilation, but I always end up buying music that’s danceable overall, and that’s just the way I listen to music, so since I’m DJing sometimes too, it ‘s all about stuff that makes the DJs dance. We don’t do lounges that often, so I’m conscious of that, and that’s what comes first. Each store has a different concept, or rather the content, and the apparel they stock . Ours has quite a lot of apparel, and some designers put a lot of effort into it, so we have music-related items everywhere, but other than that, I think Shimokita only stocks sporty tennis T-shirts and volleyball T-shirts. Jazzy Sport label T-shirts. Is this a collaboration? Moodymann with Roland. This is the Jazzy Sport Nurseries pop-up in Kannai, Yokohama…. I pushed it a little… We have tapes that were released over there, so the Yokohama store also sells greens, so it ‘s a green shop and records. The manager of that store works on greens, so that’s the section. It seems like there’s been a sudden shift to foreign customers. Records have gotten more expensive, too, but I’d say it’s about 90%. Nowadays, of course, there are people who know Jazzy Sport, and we don’t stock much city pop, but of course we get a lot of questions like, “Do you have any recommendations from Japanese people?” People do come looking for old stuff, especially dead stock. Is it a festival? There were foreigners on their way out or on their way home, and they piled up like this, listening to music and dancing, and they could buy beer there, which made it even more…. there were some customers who were like they were in a club by themselves , but I couldn’t really tell them to go away, so please enjoy yourself, it’s nice to be able to share something you love and it being sold out, it’s great when you think it’s a good song and it doesn’t sell, and you wonder why it isn’t selling, so as a record store I started later, so I run the store with the feeling that I’m just stocking records rather than running a record store, so on the other hand I think there are quite a few dance studios in Shimokitazawa right now, so I would like to expand this studio a bit more.

世界中の魅力的なレコード店を紹介し、店主の魅力やレコード文化の多様性を掘り下げる本企画。

今回は、東京・下北沢にある「Jazzy Sport Shimokitazawa」さんをご紹介します！

Jazzy Sport Shimokitazawaは、レコード、アパレル、そしてダンススタジオが融合したユニークなカルチャー拠点です。学芸大学に本店を持つJazzy Sportの下北沢店は、2025年に10周年を迎えます。店名は、代表が愛する「ジャズ」と「スポーツ」のアドリブ性にちなんで名付けられ、即興性と躍動感が店のコンセプトに息づいています。

店内には、ハウス、ヒップホップ、UKジャズを中心に、ダンスフロア直結のグルーヴィーなレコードがずらり。中でも“踊れるジャズ”はセレクションの中核です。

併設されたダンススタジオでは3歳のキッズから60代のシニアまでが通うダンスクラスが毎日開講されており、週末にはDJパーティーやインストアライブも開催。音楽と人が交差する、地域密着型のカルチャースポットとして地元の人々に愛されています。

また音楽と連動したセレクトアパレルも展開しており、レコードを掘る楽しさが、着る喜びへとつながります。音楽を「聴く」だけでなく「踊る」や「着る」体験へと広げてくれる、唯一無二のレコードショップです。

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■SHOP INFO
Jazzy Sport Shimokitazawa

13:00〜21:00(火曜定休)　土12-20 日12-18
東京都世田谷区北沢２丁目１９−１７ サワダヤビル 3F-A
03-6453-2278

取扱：新譜・旧譜
ジャンル：ジャズ、ヒップホップ、ソウル、ハウス、レゲエ
在庫枚数：約2,500枚

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