Welcome to the new series of jazz videos, 'Jazz Instant Course'.
In this episode, we've lined up rhythms used in jazz.
Jazz allows for the free manipulation of rhythms, even within the same
song.
Let's aim to identify which rhythms are being used
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Booze, Cigarettes, and a Jazz Pianist
I am a jazz pianist, but I cannot drink alcohol. The same goes for cigarettes.
When it comes to coffee, I can only drink a little after eating meat because
it raises my heart rate.
This may seem unthink able now, but when I was young ... 50 years ago
in Japan, it was difficult to be accepted in adult society if you could
neither drink nor smoke.
It was no problem for close friends, but the more you met new people, superiors,
or people you felt distant from, alcohol and cigarettes were the lubricants
of communication.
Especially in the jazz world, if you couldn't drink, you often had to turn
down favors from business partners, and it didn't make a good impression
on them either." I felt very bad when he told me, "You can drink
whatever alcohol we have here.
It must have been a heavenly place for a drinker. But even if I could
drink, I didn't.
I am not a very dexterous pianist, and I feel that drinking dulls my senses
and prevents me from practicing and deeply appreciating the piano; even
if I am only 3% numb, after 10 days it becomes 30%, after 100 days it becomes
300%, and I feel like I am playing a piano that is not my true self, which
is a waste.
Maybe that is being stingy.
But my wife says I am too unique like that and don't need alcohol.
I have renewed my website.
Three years after arriving in Yoshino, I finally rewrote my website, which
I had left as it was when I was in Abeno.
You never know what will happen in life, and this is a life I never imagined
three years ago, or at least not four years ago. S
urrounded by nature and feeling the seasons in my life, I feel that my
music has also changed a lot.
