“Read something by Haruki Murakami” has been a reading-related bucket list entry of mine for years. Tw : Violence during WW2, quite gruesome in description. This translation by Jay Rubin is in collaboration with the author Three books in one volume: The Thieving Magpie, Bird as Prophet, The Birdcatcher. Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute a malevolent yet mediagenic politician a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan’s forgotten campaign in Manchuria.
Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Japan’s most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. Additionally, he has published articles in Bass world, Jazz Perspectives, and the Massachusetts Music Educators’ Journal. His book The Jazz Rhythm Section was published by Rowman & Littlefield in conjunction with NAfME in 2019. He has presented his research at the International Society of Bassists Conference, Issues in Contemporary Jazz, Jazz Education Network, International Society for Improvised Music, BassEurope, Massachusetts Music Educators Association, and the National Association for Music Education. Celebrating Bird: A Tribute to Charlie Parker, a collaboration with saxophonist David Detweiler, was released in September 2020 by Next Level Music. He also appears as a member of HGTS on their debut release And Then They Played… released in April 2020 by Summit Records.
His 2019 recording, The Elephant Vanishes: Jazz Interpretations of the Short Stories of Haruki Murakami, was released to critical acclaim by Origin Arts records and was listed in the top ten records of 2019 by Jazziz.
"Wind Up Bird and Tuesday's Women" from his composition The Elephant Vanishes: Jazz Interpretations of the Short Stories of Haruki Murakami (2019 CD release on OA2 Records)īassist, composer, and educator Fumi Tomita was active in the New York jazz scene for over fifteen years.
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