Jazz Shakuhachi with Bruce Huebner and Jonathon Katz. A dual language edition with optional Japanese subtitles.
DVD (53 minutes) plus 20-Page Booklet
– $37.50
Jazz Shakuhachi is based on over six years of recording and performing that has yielded a body of composition and improvisation tailored to these two wildly disparate instruments, piano and shakuhachi.
The Jazz Shakuhachi DVD comes with a 20-page booklet that includes an Introduction, Glossary and Sheet Music of all the pieces performed. V-20 Dual Language – English with Optional Japanese Subtitles.
This DVD features:
• Live stage clips filmed at STB 139, a club located in the Rippongi district of Tokyo, Japan.
• Engaging discussion of strategies for blowing, writing and interpreting across the cultural divide.
• Easy to understand examples from original tunes and folk songs.
• Clear on-screen notation of scales and chord names.
• Short improvisation exercises for play along or keyboard study.
Jazz Shakuhachi includes:
• Pedagogically-arranged chapter headings and menus.
• Screen notation, chord names.
• Overhead keyboard shots.
• Optional Japanese subtitles.
• A printed glossary and sheet music.
• Screen glossary.
• Live concert clips.
Jazz Shakuhachi could be for you if you are:
• A traditional shakuhachi veteran looking for ideas for a new musical outlet.
• A western-trained musician, but shakuhachi beginner, hoping to exploit your chops in a new and creative way.
• A composer or back-up player looking for hints on bringing out the best of this traditional instrument.
• An educator introducing new trends in non-western music, aesthetic issues in modern fusion music or Japanese studies.
Jazz Shakuhachi presents key issues in a fast and interesting pace while attempting to answer the following questions:
• How can I begin enjoying improvising with only a rudimentary knowledge of the shakuhachi or with little or no jazz background?
• How can I harmonize chords played on the piano with the open tones of the shakuhachi?
• How is the shakuhachi uniquely built for the blues?
• How are Japanese folk melodies ideal for Latin jazz?
• How can I build a jazz solo or play over fast chord progressions on a 5-hole bamboo flute?
• How can traditional scales apply to modern jazz chords?
Jazz Shakuhachi includes performances of the following original tunes and arrangements:
• Zen In
• Ro, Tsu, Re, Chi, Ri Blues
• Mogamigawa (Mogami River Boat Song)
• Amado River
• The Number You Have Reached
• Bright One
• Like the Wind
Jazz Shakuhachi DVD
| Introduction | 0:53 |
| 1. Fitting Piano Chords with Shakuhachi Open Tones | 1:34 |
| 1a. Diatonic Triads with Open Tones | 2:16 |
| 1b. Seventh Chords with Open Tones | 3:28 |
| 1c. Various Chords with Open Tones | 4:52 |
| 1d. Performance:“Zen In” | 6:17 |
| 1e. Practice: Open Tones with Piano Chords | 8:12 |
| 2. Playing Shakuhachi Blues | 9:00 |
| 2a. Performance:“Ro, Tsu, Re, Chi, Ri Blues” | 9:17 |
| 2b. Traditional Shakuhachi Techniques and the Blues | 10:53 |
| 3. Fusing Folk Shakuhachi with Latin Jazz | 11:57 |
| 3a. Performance:“Mogamigawa”(Mogami River Boat Song) | 12:04 |
| 3b. Playing a Montuno on the Shakuhachi | 15:07 |
| 3c. Building a Jazz Solo on the Shakuhachi | 16:01 |
| 4. Using Traditional Modes with Modern Jazz Chords | 19:21 |
| 4a. Performance:“Amado River” | 19:21 |
| 4b. Applying Tetrachords to Jazz Harmony | 20:41 |
| 4c. A Closer Look at Tetrachords | 23:08 |
| 4d. Building the Minyo Scale | 23:58 |
| 4e. Transposing the Minyo Scale in Fourth Movement | 24:29 |
| 4f. Minyo Scale in Fourth Movement in Time | 26:22 |
| 4g. The Minyo Scale in Stepwise Movement in Time | 27:38 |
| 5. Performance:“The Number You Have Reached” | 28:58 |
| 5a. Using the Ryukyu, Minyo and Miyako Bushi Scales | 29:50 |
| 5b. Building the Ryukyu Scale | 30:19 |
| 5c. Building the Minyo Scale | 30:40 |
| 5d. Building the Miyako Bushi Scale | 30:59 |
| 5e. Ryukyu Scale in Fourth Movement | 31:28 |
| 5f. Ryukyu Scale and Piano Chords | 31:37 |
| 5g. A Closer Look at the Three Scales | 32:57 |
| 5h. Practice“The Number ”Progression 4 Bars Each Chord | 33:37 |
| 5i. Practice“The Number ”Progression 2 Bars Each Chord | 34:37 |
| 5j. Improvising on the Three Scales | 35:22 |
| 6. Simplifying Improvisation Over a Fast Chord Progression | 37:37 |
| 6a. Performance:“Bright One” | 37:37 |
| 6b.“Bright One”Chord Progression | 38:56 |
| 6c. Performance“Bright One”Continued | 40:43 |
| 7. Composing for the Shakuhachi | 43:20 |
| 7a. Performance:“Like the Wind” | 44:39 |
| Credits | 48:24 |
| Total Run Time | 53.37 |