Do you like this genre? Episode 6 - Jazz in Haruki Murakami's 'Age of Loss'

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​"Sunday morning, as usual, I sat at my desk and wrote to Naoko. I drank coffee from a large cup and wrote long letters while listening to old Miles Davis records."

00:00 Bill Evans Trio - Waltz For Debby (Take 1) (Live)
📖 There were only six records in total, and the cycle started with the Beatles' and ended with Bill Evans' .

06:51 Bud Powell - I'll Keep Loving You
09:34 Thelonious Monk - 'Round Midnight
📖 ”After the lesson, we drank tea and talked to each other. Sometimes I teach by mimicking a jazz piano. This is Bud Powell, and this is the Cellonius Monk.”

13:24 Antonio Carlos Jobim - Desafinado
16:09 Antonio Carlos Jobim - The Girl From Ipanema
📖 It kept raining. Occasionally there was even thunder. After eating all the grapes, Reiko lit a cigarette as usual, took out a guitar from under the bed, and started playing. I played and , and played Baccarat's songs and Lennon and McCartney's songs.

18:50 Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart In San Francisco [vocal]
📖 When I played hard rock, a few hippies and bums gathered in front of the store, dancing and smelling the syner, and other times they just sat there doing nothing. And when I hung Tony Bennett's record, they disappeared somewhere.

21:42 Thelonious Monk - Honeysuckle Rose
📖 I was silently listening to played by Cellonius Monk. There were five or six other guests in the cafe besides us, but we were the only ones drinking. The fragrant smell of coffee filled the cafe, creating an intimate atmosphere in the afternoon.

27:14 Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman
32:15 Bud Powell - It Could Happen To You
📖 The crowded Sunday street calmed me down. I bought Faulkner's "August Light" at Kinokuniya Bookstore, which was crowded like a commuter train, went to a jazz coffee shop where I wanted the sound to be as loud as possible, listened to Ornette Coleman or Bud Powell's records, while enjoying hot, thick, tasteless coffee. I drank and read the book I just bought.

35:30 Miles Davis - So What (from )
📖 On Sunday morning, as usual, I sat at my desk and wrote to Naoko. He drank coffee from a large cup and wrote long letters while listening to old records by Miles Davis.
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“A rainy Sunday confuses me a bit. Because when it rains, you can't do laundry or iron. I can't even walk, and I can't roll around on the roof. All I can do is sit in front of my desk, play Kind of Blue on auto-repeat, and listen to it over and over again, staring blankly at the scenery of the raining yard.”

44:53 Sarah Vaughan - Misty [vocal]
📖 I nodded and said nothing further. Then, I ordered a second whiskey soda and ate a pistachio. Sara Vaughn was singing an old love song in the background as the shaker swayed, the glasses clashed, and the ice machine creaked from grinding.

47:56 John Coltrane - A Love Supreme, Part I - Acknowledgment
📖 The world around me was changing drastically. Many people died, including John Coltrane.

55:40 Henry Mancini - Dear Heart [vocal]
📖 First of all, she played Henry Mancini's very cleanly and quietly.
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I like some of Haruki Murakami's novels and jazz genre music.

It felt good to hear a song I used to listen to and knew from the book 'The Age of Loss'!