Two-Hour Mix of the Jazz in Haruki Murakami Novels

From NTS, this is a two-hour mix of jazz music featured in the books of Haruki Murakami.

‘Somewhere along the line Coltrane’s soprano sax runs out of steam. Now it’s McCoy Tyner’s piano solo I hear, the left hand carving out a repetitious rhythm and the right layering on thick, forbidding chords. Like some mythic scene, the music portrays somebody’s — a nameless, faceless somebody’s — dim past, all the details laid out as clearly as entrails being dragged out of the darkness. Or at least that’s how it sounds to me. The patient, repeating music ever so slowly breaks apart the real, rearranging the pieces. It has a hypnotic, menacing smell, just like the forest’ —Kafka On The Shore

The playlist features tracks by Ornette Coleman, Coltrane, Dizzy, the Bill Evans Trio, Monk, Mingus, and Miles Davis. Some of the video’s comments:

I had just prepared a light meal and hit play on this playlist when the telephone began to ring.

about to make my morning matcha, a spring breeze is flowing through the open windows, the air smells of optimism

Early morning, sun shining to balcony, having espresso and writing.

Studying the day before the exam with a bittersweet optimism while playing this and holding on to my hopes

Canned cold beer, windows open on a warm summer night, just after finishing a simple dinner of rice and salmon and sitting next to my cat

See also Classical Music from Murakami Novels. Both of these are going straight into my Underscore collection.

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