Original, Creative Japanese Jazz

[Mulboyne]

Ejazznews: Japan's Junko Moriya Wins Thelonious Monk International Composers Competition
The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz is pleased to announce that Junko Moriya, a composer from Kanagawa, Japan, has won the 2005 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composers Competition...The $10,000 Composers Award is presented annually to the young, aspiring composer who best demonstrates originality, creativity, and excellence in jazz composition...Junko Moriya began studying classical piano when she was five years old. By age 18, she was studying jazz piano and performing in the Waseda University High Society Orchestra...After receiving her bachelor's degree from Waseda University, Moriya lived in New York, where she studied with Harold Danko... During this time, she performed at numerous jazz clubs in New York and in Europe. Since returning to Japan in 1993, Moriya has performed...throughout Japan. She is known not only as a pianist, but also as a composer and arranger... She directs big bands at junior high and high schools and appears on radio and television programs all across Japan.

[Buraku]

Why did Japan Jazz die on its ass? Some played good standards but the magazines insist its not 'Real Jazz'

Jazz if it has not died already will probably die in the next few decades and I wonder if anyone will be around to miss it.

In a religion culture Asskcrackistan for example an islamo people walked out in the middle of an outdoor concert show....only to later comeback ...did they enjoy it?
How do people of other cultures 'hear'?
I think people from another culture era, classical musicians would enjoy Duke Ellington he had a great groove but also a great understanding of piano harmony

AI has come now, it chats with people, it entertains, it can do art, it can do your old boring 1 4 5 progression or 1 5 4 or even use more than Three Chords and do your chord axis of awesome trick, it can layer music and do an auto tuned voice. The robot software and artificial intelligence can do a drum machine and a bass machine line...the machine will replace all and people anyways are happy to listen to some techno disco sound or even tone deaf rap with Low IQ vulgar lyric, people are even entertained by a few notes 3 notes of tone even two electronic notes, no chords just a sampled beat edited to 'music' and that is enough to satisfy.

I liked some of Thelonious Monk's wacky stuff but I have a love hate relationship with this style of music, I kinda hate jazz more especially the modern stuff, I like the old Swing and Blues and Marching band stuff but mostly I feel the idea of jazz is gone, lost in the sand of time or blow by the winds, if not lost it has been dying. Recording types and industry, vinyl and mp3 seller they push it to concert halls and neo jazz it always sounded like stuffy pretentious music. It died when it pretended to be something more than it was, dies once the sophisty type took that scene. It lost its root, sophisticated music promoted by boring magazines and given review by elite writers in newspapers that would have been the down and drity music of its time, in Rock n Roll Halls, the fields of the South and Blues of Chicago, the Whore House and Juke joint and tried to turn it into this quiet hush hush pretentious scene with smokey rooms and everyone trying to 'get it'. A good example is Miles Davis massively over-rated, in his early years he is rocking, he is blues, he is swinging playing BeBop, then later a well off comfortable wealthy man is full of anger and hate, the 'Prince of Darkness' they called him.That bad vibration takes over his ears and brain, bum notes, out of tune with Prince, can't stay in key and plays totally out of time, Richard Pryor would mock his antics, he probably had an injection of AIDs in his arms or up his ass before he died but there would have been a huge 'taboo' of talking about it then.

a man worshiped, who lost his ears and eaten by his own darkness and addiction

The origin of the word 'Jazz' is almost lost, some say it was a fusion of crazy things combined, a type of apple that is a cross = a mixture of two insane ideas combined, the new blend of styles for a new country, African Blues and Gospel style, improvisation, syncopation, ragtime, new instruments and symbols and drums from the Far East and all of this put into a big European style band with European Orchestra harmony, some deliberate deviations of pitch. Jazz didn't have any definition it had a groove and swing, it had a rhythm section, brass, big upright bass, the word could mean silly 'empty talk' and maybe the songs had a certain cartoony circus or blue mood but was mostly 'unspecified things' all that jazz. Some say it came from an old word "jasm", an obsolete slang term meaning spirit, energy, and vigor, some new people even tried to deny its roots and say old Swing and Blues and Marching Big Bands of Parade and Ragtime was not jazz and they push this 'fusion' that's when I said Fuck Them and jazz is dead .

Then at one time in the Post-War era it became an elite thing, once they 'determined' it as a Neo smokey bar sound, a Nu-Jazz music style of depressing music

The Hiroshima woman is still playing

any feel Japan Jazz has come to its natural end?

https://twitter.com/junkomoriya/status/ ... 7243137026

Reuben Wilson, organist who helped usher in soul jazz, has died at 88

https://www.kasu.org/arts-culture/arts- ... died-at-88

'Japanese Jazz Spectacle Vol I: Deep Heavy & Beautiful Jazz From Japan 1968-1984'

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/yusuke- ... 862698-01/

and Classical people became far more edgy and experimental than 'jazz' itself and the elite pretentious and drug addicts that took over the scene.

As Jazz went up its own Ass, it lost an ability to create

The threnody, a wailing song,

or poem of mourning composed or performed as memorial to a dead person (s)