Jazz Greats--Mushroom Spring Tree Essay Series

Author: Haruki Murakami (Japanese) translated by Lin Shaohua
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: This is a rare opportunity in a thousand years—when two Japanese super jazz fans met, allowing twenty-six contemporary American jazz talents to gather in one collection. The painter Wada Makoto has listened to "jazz of all types and periods," and encountering Murakami was extraordinary—"he spent most of his life with jazz," and at one point even treated it as his profession." Thus, both of them brought their expertise to jazz. Wada's twenty-six illustrations are naturally elegant and masterful, full of subtlety; Murakami's twenty-six essays are even more brilliant and extraordinary. "Whenever Parker was about to roll or dissolve in the rich melody and imagery, Gillespie would decisively blow in fresh air to reinforce the, and at times of mist and fog, he would use the razor to cut through the haze"—such a fluid and dazzling long sentence is rarely found in Murakami's other works.