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Japanese jazz had frequently been criticized as derivative, or even as an unworthy imitation of U.S. jazz, both by American and Japanese commentators. In response to the belittling attitude of their audience, Japanese jazz artists began adding a "national flavor" to their work in the 1960s. [ Expatriate Toshiko Akiyoshi drew on Japanese culture in compositions for the  big band  she co-led with her husband and long-term collaborator  Lew Tabackin . On  Kogun  (1974) they first utilized traditional instruments, such as the  tsuzumi , and  Long Yellow Road  (1975) features an adaptation of a melody from the Japanese tradition of court music ("Children in the Temple Ground"). [18] Inspired by the analogies Akiyoshi presented to him between jazz music and  Zen Buddhism , jazz writer William Minor has suggested that a Zen aesthetic can be perceived in the music of Masahiko Satoh and other Japanese jazz artists. Around the turn of the millennium,...
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A TICKET TO THE JAPANESE ART I DID NOT KNEW THAT IT EXISTED

The weekend I went to the Tokyo underground Art scene... and I still was in Berlin! Last weekend while checking one of the music blogs I follow,  I stumble upon this Transmedia project called "Floating images from the future" (Mirai no Ukiyoe) that was being recommended by an e-magazine I always read. By the name, I was first expecting sort of a political project about futurism or the future of the world, but it came to be a Transmedia Documentary about different nowadays Japanese Artists from such diverse fields as Punk-Jazz, Butoh Dance and Installation, among others. The project is interactive, that means that I can choose where to go and also I can choose between documentary shorts, this click and reward platform and the  The project is interesting, so let me tell you a brief story of how it went. First I started and a webpage with what seemed to me like a beautiful traditional Japanese painting of... David Bowie (?!) pops in front of me. I click on it and found a m...
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