KotoJazz 15: “Chaos Jazz”

“Chaos Jazz” might be a genre of its own, and if that is the case, the east-west connection is alive and well in this category. Some samples of “chaos jazz” I’ve listened to that are connected to koto jazz tunes are:

Hatchidori (Hummingbird)- by Kenji

Tori No Yo Ni (Like a Bird), version by Kenji

Strange Beauty, Who’s Playing, & She Comes to Shore (3 albums), by Pui Ming Lee (the most dynamic, powerful chaos jazz I’ve heard; my recommendation: Strange Beauty (album)), by Pui Ming Lee

Nozaki (Edo Gigaku), by Masahiko Satoh

Koto Power Trio, by Michiyo Yagi, Jim O’Rourke, and Tamaya Honda

Shizuku (album), by Michiyo Yagi

She Comes To Shore, by Pui Ming Lee

Yuji Takahashi biography; and MP3 music samples, by Yuji Takahashi

Improvisational music, by Makoto Ozone

Drummin’ Koto- Ney & Guitar Intro to Silent Speech (featuring Mieko Miyazaki (koto), Patrick Goraguer (drums), Nguyen Le (guitar), Kudzi Erguner (ney) by Chris Jennings

O-Lim (Ascension) (Red Sun), by SamulNori (images of Korean traditional music and jazz)

Record of Changes & Then Comes the White Tiger, by SamulNori

Others:

Deception Pass, by Scott Cossu

Aerial Boundaries, by Michael Hedges

Something Ala Mode, by Rondoparisiano

Motherboard, by Random Access Memories

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