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Hi folks, hope you all doing fine.
Lately Ive been digging into these asian countries' s music, I would like to know if any know some jazz musicians from these countries. But not just straight standards jazz, players who also combine jazz with the typical music of their countries. Mostly, but not only, interested in piano players, and not so much in guitar players.
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02-06-2022 04:35 PM
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Maybe not quite what you’re asking for, but I really like Otomo Yoshihide’s cover of Out to Lunch .
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Originally Posted by osloutah
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Have you heard Hiromi from Japan? Here she is live with Anthony Jackson on bass and Simon Phillips on drums.
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Originally Posted by Flat
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Good Sounds
This thread has lots of Japanese and other jazz guitar players.
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man-argentina -
Are you a lazy person? I just googled 'asian jazz' and got all sorts of things, artists, shows, what have you, all down the page. Why can't you do that too? Or must we post one thing at a time here which you dismiss, one at a time, as not your cup of tea?
Waste of time, don't you think?
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Originally Posted by ragman1
People are looking for some nice things and looking for opinions, I guess that's normal.
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Originally Posted by kris
Ridiculous. Unless he's disabled he can look for himself, just like everyone else does. There are lists of the best Japanese/Chinese/Korean jazz acts around. He can filter them very quickly. Getting us to do it for him is silly, it's not rocket science.
(And you can bet your bottom dollar now he's going to absolutely love the album you just posted :-))
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I have no time.
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Originally Posted by ragman1
Lets say someone doesnt know anything about jazz, that person could just go to Wikipedia and start looking for jazz in youtube, and if have a doubt just google it, but also could use the forum to talk with people who have been years, decades, into jazz and see what they have found in so many years of their experience listening and digging into jazz.
Im asking for a very specific material, not something so simple as "just google it", there could be so many musicians that are not going to appear on the first results of google or youtube.
I know local musicians of my town that if any asks for musicians from Argentina they never gonna show up in google.
Again, there is a great value to ask to people that have done the path before than you.
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Originally Posted by ragman1
Of course I do my own research about music, but because this forum exist, I use it, its also a tool.
And again, its also about to interact with other musicians !! Its not about just get facts.
And Im gonna listen the album they recommend me here, why you think Im just gonna love it ? Thats a very strange thought from you, why you think that ? Its just odd.
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Originally Posted by ragman1
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man-argentina -
I think we're not understanding each other. By the way, I'm not going to answer that other person. He said I was being diagnostic... and then proceeded to diagnose me! Totally wrongly, as it happens. So that's that. No one was having a bad day or anything.
I have to ask you again, then. How do we, or anyone here, know what your cup of tea is? Or your preference, or your like and dislike, or what excites you, or what does not? Obviously we don't. You've specified Oriental jazz (let's call it that) and that the piano interests you more than the guitar. That's all.
So how do we know? There may, by mere chance, be an expert on here on that particular kind of music but even they don't know. They may know their subject but unless they pass it by you, they don't know either.
So what do we do? We google like I did, because I'm helpful, and there are lists of the best Chinese/Japanese/Korean jazz pianists. And other lists of that kind of music.
What then? Go looking and select something I personally like? And post it and you say 'Not my cup of tea' and that's that. And so it goes on.
How do we know what you like? So we're quite obviously doing your homework for you, right? Which you could do far, far more quickly for yourself.
Don't brush it off as 'just having fun', it's not that at all. That's an excuse, a deception. It means, to answer you as helpfully as possible, we have to look around for you. Except, as I keep saying, we don't know what we're looking for.
So it's rather silly, isn't it? Well, it is to me but perhaps I have quite a serious mind and I can't help that.
You say you're using the forum as a tool. Quite right, you are. But by 'the forum' you mean real people, which means you're using people who are trying to help you. That might seem harsh but it's true, isn't it? Of course, some people don't mind being used, but that's up to them.
So I'm just repeating what I said before, unfortunately. You've got people looking for something (except they don't know what, which is absurd) and you just accept or reject it. That seems to me to be entirely the wrong kind of thing to do.
But anyway, if you want them to do it, and they want to do it, so be it. Except it would be far easier just to do it yourself, obviously, because only you really know what you want.
Is it all clear now? No one's having a bad day, I'm just telling you what I think. And, believe it or not, I'm still trying to help you by showing you a quicker way to what you want, right?
And Im gonna listen the album they recommend me here, why you think Im just gonna love it ? Thats a very strange thought from you, why you think that ?
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Originally Posted by ragman1
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So have you found anything yet?
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Originally Posted by ragman1
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But something must have started off your interest in this. What was it?
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Originally Posted by ragman1
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I think the issue here is that it's not specific enough. Japan, China and Korea are big countries. You're going to have to look methodically. Start with, say, Japan and their jazz artists and find something that appeals. Then the other two countries. Whittle it down till you get a clearer picture.
You could start here.
Japanese jazz - Wikipedia
Lots of names. Here's one.
Good luck!
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I live in China and there are a lot of very good musicians both Chinese and expats. My band, (we are based in Beijing), and we are mixed of musicians from the US, China, Italy, Poland.
On our latest recording some of our music is derived from traditional Chinese music, as well as original compositions. Have a listen below, thanks!
Doug Martin
Doug Martin & Alchemy - Cosmos
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Erena Terakubo:
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Joey Alexander, if Indonesian counts...
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I watched the Emmet Cohen stream. Silberstein gets a convincing jazz tone from a Strat. Apparently a top-load hardtail with a humbucker at the neck. Makes me want to try one, almost.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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