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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.
Tracklist
- Waltz For Debby
- 'Round Midnight
- So What
- Autumn Leaves
- Pithecanthropus Erectus
- Lester Young & Teddy Wilson QuartetAll Of Me
- Jackie-ing
- Song For My Father
- Herb GellerS' Pacific View
- Art Blackey And His Jazz MessengersNo Problem (First Version)
- Serene
- Gingerbread BoyDexter Gordon
- Maiden Voyage
- The Bridge
- Lonely Woman
- Manteca
- Stan Getz Feat. Astrud GilbertoThe Girl From Ipanema
- My Favorite Things
