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22.11.24 · Tokyo
NTS Guide to: Jazz In Murakami Novels
'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.
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Tracklist
- Bill Evans Trio, Scott LaFaro, Paul MotianWaltz For Debby
- Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan'Round Midnight
- Miles Davis, John ColtraneSo What
- Cannonball Adderley, Miles DavisAutumn Leaves
- Charles MingusPithecanthropus Erectus
- Lester Young & Teddy Wilson QuartetAll Of Me
- Thelonious Monk QuintetJackie-ing
- The Horace Silver QuintetSong For My Father
- Herb GellerS' Pacific View
- Art Blackey And His Jazz MessengersNo Problem (First Version)
- Eric DolphySerene
- Gingerbread BoyDexter Gordon
- Herbie HancockMaiden Voyage
- Sonny RollinsThe Bridge
- Ornette ColemanLonely Woman
- Dizzy GillespieManteca
- Stan Getz Feat. Astrud GilbertoThe Girl From Ipanema
- John ColtraneMy Favorite Things