Trailblazing jazz club marks 50th anniversary in Japan

Jazz is great and Japan has had for decades a jazz passion. Art Blakey was a jazz band leader who helped players here in the US become stars and getting other big names into Japan has done the same there. I remember a student of mine in Komaki where I taught telling me that record stores all over Japan closed the day John Coltrane died. I listened to a lot of live shows when I was there and there are some really great jazz artists in Japan. This place seems like one of the venues that have a great atmosphere for the music. I'd like to go back and visit this place. Jazz doesn't rock, it be bops.

My most hated musical form, oh it dont half get on me wick make no mistake.

Jazz started in Kobe. There's a summer Jazz festival.

"In 1923, Kobe became the birthplace of jazz in Japan when the first jazz performance by a professional band was conducted in the city's former foreign commercial district, and this year marks the 100th anniversary of jazz in Japan."

http://202.246.160.112/documents/69152/202304_enprint.pdf

wallace

Do you like it? I find it soooo ruddy annoying.

ffs

Yes, I like Jazz. Herbie Hancock Jazz Fusion.

There is definitely a nerdy aspect to some jazz, I will give you that, ffs. Some of it can be quite trying, cerebral and pretentious. But if there any genres you like which have an overlap with jazz (jazz funk, jazz rock, jazz blues, etc) you could start there and work back and out. Jazz is actually a pretty big genre all in all. Some of it is BS, some is very good.

wallace

I remember Mr Hancock because he did some collaborations with bands I liked at the time.

I went to some place here about 20 years a jazz bar with a friend who liked that stuff and it sounded like they were making it up as they went along. It was dreadful but the audience seemed to like it, I just wanted to clear off to be honest.