Jazz Journeys to Japan: The Heart WithinUniversity of Michigan Press, 2004 - 369 pages Part music history, part cultural meditation, part travel narrative, Jazz Journeys to Japan is the first book to address the experiences of individual players -- Japanese jazz greats such as Toshiko Akiyoshi, Masahiko Satoh, Makoto Ozone, and Yosuke Yamashita. William Minor navigates the converging streams of Western music and Eastern tradition, revealing through interviews with musicians, critics, and producers the unique synthesis that results from this convergence. And, turning conventional wisdom on its ear, he disproves the widely held notion that Japanese jazz artists don't "swing." Along the way, we experience Minor's growing appreciation of Japanese culture, which mirrors his subjects' discovery of American jazz. William Minor's previous books include Unzipped Souls: A Jazz Journey through the Soviet Union, and Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years. He has written for Downbeat, Jazz Times, Jazz Notes, Coda, and Swing Journal. |
Table des matières
A History Lesson | 1 |
in Flight | 6 |
The Hawaii International Jazz Festival | 18 |
The Tiger | 22 |
And the Lady | 31 |
Masahiko Satoh | 42 |
Scotch and Jazz | 59 |
Hototogisu | 67 |
Terumasa Hino and Junko Onishi | 191 |
Takeshi Tee Fuji and Three Blind Mice | 199 |
The Foreign Cemetery an Art Museum and a Night on the Town with Tee Fuji | 211 |
Nikko and the Albatross Swing Jazz Orchestra | 216 |
Love Rescues the Earth the Castle Donny Schwekediek Star Eyes Jazz Aster and Swing | 225 |
YokoyamaJima the Ise Shrine and the Wedding Rocks | 241 |
Takeo Nishida Tadao Kitano Noriko Nakayama and the Arrow Jazz Orchestra | 245 |
Return to the Over Seas Club and Hisayuki Terai | 256 |
Kotaro Tsukahara and Eiji Kitamura | 77 |
King Records the Jazz Restoration in Japan and Swing Journal | 88 |
Sima | 99 |
More on What Prompted Me to Go to Japan | 109 |
Sumi Tonooka and Kenny Endo | 116 |
Akira Tana | 124 |
Makoto Ozone | 136 |
The Monterey Jazz Festival in Noto | 146 |
Nara Kyoto and the Rag Club | 158 |
Yosuke Yamashita | 161 |
Zakone | 175 |
The Blue Note Satoru Salt Shionoya the Over Seas Club and Meeting Hisayuki Terai | 179 |
The Mt Fuji Jazz Festival | 186 |
Koto Master Miya Masaoka | 268 |
Sadao Watanabe Aki Takase and Kazumi Watanabe | 273 |
Free Improvisers | 283 |
A Bevy of Pianists | 292 |
The Monterey Jazz Festival in Noto Again | 299 |
Masahisa Segawa | 311 |
Tokyo Jazz Scene 1998 | 316 |
CODA | 323 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 333 |
DISCOGRAPHY | 341 |
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