Takehiro Honda & His Orchestra - What's Going On

The impossibly cool 1971 album What’s Going On from Japanese pianist Takehiro Honda swings through jazz orchestra renditions of American R&B and funk classics like Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” Otis Redding’s “Sitting On The Dock of the Bay,” and James Brown’s “Ain’t Funky Now” with Pacific panache.