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Gramophone Concert “Jazz Summit (40) – Habanera Undercurrent”
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A series of gramophone concerts is regularly held within the lecture theater Academia at Intermediatheque. The current concert series focuses on the Satoshi Yuze record collection, from which famous jazz recordings from the 1920 through to the 1940s are selected and played on the illustrious Victrola Credenza gramophone, sharing a quality of sound which has now vanished from public spaces.
The European dance music style known as contradanza was imported to Cuba at the beginning of the 19th Century. Taking root there, it was later exported again to Europe and then the United States as the habanera, creating a sensation. Its rhythm pattern consistently flows through early jazz. Jelly Roll Morton named it “the Spanish tinge,” and considered it an essential element of jazz expression. Once Latin-flavored themes were incorporated within 1930s swing jazz, which has a fondness for exoticism, Cuban musicians started playing alongside jazz musicians, working throughout the mid 1940s toward a unification of their sense of rhythm and the bebop style. Here the complex relationship uniting Cuba and jazz music is reconsidered, from the habanera sensation to the birth of Afro-Cuban jazz.
The European dance music style known as contradanza was imported to Cuba at the beginning of the 19th Century. Taking root there, it was later exported again to Europe and then the United States as the habanera, creating a sensation. Its rhythm pattern consistently flows through early jazz. Jelly Roll Morton named it “the Spanish tinge,” and considered it an essential element of jazz expression. Once Latin-flavored themes were incorporated within 1930s swing jazz, which has a fondness for exoticism, Cuban musicians started playing alongside jazz musicians, working throughout the mid 1940s toward a unification of their sense of rhythm and the bebop style. Here the complex relationship uniting Cuba and jazz music is reconsidered, from the habanera sensation to the birth of Afro-Cuban jazz.
Schedule | Jul 1 (Sat) 2017 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://www.intermediatheque.jp/en/schedule/view/id/IMT0142 | ||||
| Venue | Intermediatheque http://www.intermediatheque.jp/en/ | ||||
| Location | 2F, 3F JP Tower 2-7-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-7003 | ||||
| Access | 1 minute walk from the Marunouchi South exit of JR Tokyo Station, 2 minute walk from exit 4 at Nijubashimae Station on the Chiyoda line. | ||||
| Phone | 050-5541-8600 (Hello Dial) | ||||
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