NTS Guide to: Jazz In Murakami Novels 22nd November 2024

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Straight Jazz Modal

'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

0:00:08
Bill Evans Trio, Bill Evans Trio, Scott LaFaro, Scott LaFaro, Paul MotianPaul Motian
Waltz For Debby
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Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Monk, Gerry MulliganGerry Mulligan
'Round Midnight
0:12:11
Miles Davis, Miles Davis, John ColtraneJohn Coltrane
So What

Cannonball Adderley, Cannonball Adderley, Miles DavisMiles Davis
Autumn Leaves
Charles MingusCharles Mingus
Pithecanthropus Erectus
Lester Young & Teddy Wilson QuartetLester Young & Teddy Wilson Quartet
All Of Me
Thelonious Monk QuintetThelonious Monk Quintet
Jackie-ing
The Horace Silver QuintetThe Horace Silver Quintet
Song For My Father
Herb GellerHerb Geller
S' Pacific View
Art Blackey And His Jazz MessengersArt Blackey And His Jazz Messengers
No Problem (First Version)
Eric DolphyEric Dolphy
Serene
Gingerbread BoyGingerbread Boy
Dexter Gordon
Herbie HancockHerbie Hancock
Maiden Voyage
Sonny RollinsSonny Rollins
The Bridge
Ornette ColemanOrnette Coleman
Lonely Woman
Dizzy GillespieDizzy Gillespie
Manteca
Stan Getz Feat. Astrud GilbertoStan Getz Feat. Astrud Gilberto
The Girl From Ipanema
John ColtraneJohn Coltrane
My Favorite Things