Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Jam wrote:

it has a nice shakuhachi piece as the background music. I can't place it, I was wondering if someone else could

Cheers!

After the Snow the Fragrance by Tony Scott. The title pops up on my screen sometimes and sometimes  not.  It is apparently available as an Amazon.com mp3.  I wonder why that pop up only happens occasionally.

Last edited by Jim Thompson (2010-01-21 23:12:22)

Jim Thompson wrote:

Jam wrote:

it has a nice shakuhachi piece as the background music. I can't place it, I was wondering if someone else could

Cheers!

After the Snow the Fragrance by Tony Scott. The title pops up on my screen sometimes and sometimes  not.  It is apparently available as an Amazon.com mp3.  I wonder why that pop up only happens occasionally.

Actually, Jim, I must correct you on that a bit. The piece is from Tony Scott (who is--or was, don't know if he's alive now--a great Jazz clarinetist), and the album is Music for Zen Meditation, a classic from 1964. The piece is 'A Quivering Leaf, Ask the Winds' (After the Snow, the Fragrance is also on the album; it's a koto/clarinet piece.). The interesting part is that it's played by Hozan Yamamoto; Scott asks him to improvise something solo, and Yamamoto improvised (egad!) a Honkyoku on the spot. The entire album is improvised, with clarinet, koto, and shakuhachi, in various combinations.

A must have, IMO, even though it's not strictly a shakuhachi album. Wonderfully enough, it's available on iTunes.

Last edited by edosan (2010-01-22 00:42:27)