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2011年12月11日
My diary of traveling overseas <1>
It’s already been 10 years since I started playing in concerts overseas.
My international musical activity, starting from 2001 in New York where I met the terrorist attack on Sep.11, gave me the chance not only to develop my music but also to make my view global and think about things deeply.
For me, the great thing about traveling around the world is diving into unfamiliar circumstances, and drawing out power from my internal space to deal with things which you meet.
It was risky in a way to play with musicians in unfamiliar countries without enough information or preparation, but after continuing in that way, I got assurance and confidence.
I kept a diary almost every day during my trip.
I’m going to read them again, and write them on my blog little by little.
New York 2001 “Prologue”
I met Mrs.F. at a workshop at “Pit Inn”, which she organized for Paul Bley, a jazz pianist, who taught her at music school in Boston.
A while later, I met her and her husband at my concert when I played a tune by Charlie Parker with a saxophonist and a shamisen player.
Mrs F and Mr T studied jazz at the music school in Boston, then after doing musical activities in New York for 10 years, they recently came back to Japan.
I liked their bohemian mood, and we hit it off at once.
After we had talked for a while, they asked me if I’d like to join them in New York when they went there next time, and recommended that I should record in a studio in New York.
I hadn’t recorded my music before, and I hesitated at first, but as I heard that it’s the norm for musicians overseas to make a CD as part of their musical activities, I decided to do it.
投稿者 yokomiura : 2011年12月11日 17:40