Jazz Land

Japanese Jazz Music

Yi Yi: A One and a Two $3.88 A wedding and a grandmother's illness reveal fault lines in the lives of one Taipei family in Edward Yang's extraordinary film. Yi Yi is built from deceptively simple elements that together create a complex, warm, and utterly convincing portrait of family life. NJ Jian is a businessman facing bankruptcy, but he has to juggle his financial problems with family strife when his mother-in-law falls in...

The Jazz Channel Presents Keiko Matsui (BET on Jazz) $5.53 Keiko Matsui may have won a few Smooth Jazz Awards, but the Japanese- born, classically influenced keyboardist's music is not jazz--at least not if your definition of jazz includes swinging, the blues, and improvisation, all of which are in relatively short supply in this nearly 90-minute performance (plus DVD bonus features, including an interview with the artist). Not that it matters, really. Wh...

Sum and Kali $3.99 Ethno-Jazzy songs with Indian Tabla and Raga combined with accoustic bass and drums. Ray Spiegel has brought together some of todays top Indian and Jazz musisicans for Sum and Kali. The music ranges from meditative to ecstatic as Reggae meets ancient Raga forms and Jazz blends with devotional chants. The instrumentation itself is unique with Indian Sarod (lute), Sarangi (bowed lute), Tabla, folk ...

Yi Yi - Criterion Collection $24.99 Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 07/11/2006...

Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song (Harvard East Asian Monographs) $17.65 Enka, a sentimental ballad genre, epitomizes for many the nihonjin no kokoro (heart/soul of Japanese). To older members of the Japanese public, who constitute enka's primary audience, this music--of parted lovers, long unseen rural hometowns, and self-sacrificing mothers--evokes a direct connection to the traditional roots of "Japaneseness." Overlooked in this emotional invocation of the past, h...

Kenny Drew: Jazz Piano Collection (Jazz Piano Collection) Piano sheet music with additional text in Japanese. Songs include: Everything I Love I Can't Get Started Summer Night All Blues If Could Happen to You Stranger in Paradise Lullaby of Birdland Summertime Hush-A-Bye Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise As Time Goes By You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To Lover, Come Back to Me Fly Me to the Moon...

Moonlight on Mount Fuji SHEET MUSIC SATB $3.99 ...

You MUST listen to Hiromi Uehara. She’s AMAZING!! I wouldn’t exactly call it “Japanese” jazz, because that’s not exactly a genre, but she’s a more modern piano player who happens to be Japanese. Sorry, can’t help you with singers.