Thursday, December 17, 2009

Japanese Jazz Opera



IT SIMPLY DOESN'T GET ANY HIPPER THAN THIS!

update: This "jazz opera" isn't meant to be serious. It is based on an ancient Japanese fable, The Peach Boy (Momotaro), and all the jazz bop standards included herein contain written or re-written lyrics pertaining to that story. Think Saturday Night Live. I just meant it was "hip" because it was so funny and silly due to its drawing upon source materials from such widely divergent centuries. This video came to me via Bill Holman to Tamori Taguchi to Yasuo Sangu. . .

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'll now always think of this whenever I hear "Waltz For Debbie"!