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NTS Guide to: Jazz In Murakami Novels
Tokyo, 22.11.24
'Somewhere along the line Coltrane’s soprano sax runs out of steam. Now it’s McCoy Tyner’s piano solo I hear, the left hand carving out a repetitious rhythm and the right layering on thick, forbidding chords. Like some mythic scene, the music portrays somebody’s - a nameless, faceless somebody’s - dim past, all the details laid out as clearly as entrails being dragged out of the darkness. Or at least that’s how it sounds to me. The patient, repeating music ever so slowly breaks apart the real, rearranging the pieces. It has a hypnotic, menacing smell, just like the forest' - Kafka On The Shore
Music, and specifically jazz, has always featured heavily in the literary imagination of Haruki Murakami. In this radio special, NTS lays down two hours of jazz records as featured throughout Murakami's corpus.
Tracklist
- Lester Young & Teddy Wilson Quartet
All Of Me - Herb Geller
S' Pacific View - Art Blackey And His Jazz Messengers
No Problem (First Version) - Gingerbread Boy
Dexter Gordon - Stan Getz Feat. Astrud Gilberto
The Girl From Ipanema
