'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:
Bill Evans Trio, Scott LaFaro, Paul Motian - Waltz For Debby
00:00
Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan - 'Round Midnight
7:04
Miles Davis, John Coltrane - So What
12:17
Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis - Autumn Leaves
21:35
Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
32:23
Lester Young & Teddy Wilson Quartet - All Of Me
42:42
Thelonious Monk Quintet - Jackie-ing
47:49
The Horace Silver Quintet - Song For My Father
53:57
Herb Geller - S' Pacific View
1:00:01
Art Blackey And His Jazz Messengers - No Problem (First Version)
Eric Dolphy - Serene
1:14:15
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
1:21:12
Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
1:28:56
Dexter Gordon - Gingerbread Boy
1:34:15
Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman
1:48:17
Dizzy Gillespie - Manteca
1:53:20
Stan Getz Feat. Astrud Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema
2:00:02
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
2:03:02
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