[78-L] Very western sounding Japanese dance band

[Kristjan Saag]

The concept "non-US and non-Western Europeanrecordings" itself is a 
misconception.
The World outside the US and Western Europe doesn't consider itself 
"non-US" or "non-Western European." It sees itself as India or Egypt or 
Korea or whatever. Each of these countries could well produce a 
compilation of their own jazz or dance recordings, but hardly anyone 
would be interested in co-producing a "non-US" jazz or dance music 
compilation.

After all, it didn't take more than two-three years after The Original 
Dixieland Jazz Band made their first recordings before young musicians 
in Europe and elsewhere started to play "jazz", or what they thought was 
jazz. Hell, even Art Hickman and Jack Hylton thought they played jazz! 
Who knew for sure? All around the world young musicians were trying out 
the new music, and if it wasn't jazz it was ragtime, Hawaiian music, 
tango and even operetta - there are Japanese recordings of famous German 
operetta tunes from the 1920's!
Certainly everyone kept an eye on what was happening in the US as far as 
jazz goes, but local traditions set their marks on popular music, and 
nobody was thinking: "wow, we're producing non-US jazz" or "non 
Western-European tango". (Tango, by the way,  was huge in Russia, it was 
played and recorded in Turkey etc.) They were making contemporary music, 
that's all.
So, don't look for "non-this-or-that"-compilations, look for Chinese, 
Turkish, Japanese, Indian compilations, perhaps an Asian one, perhaps an 
African one - it's also good for combating ones ethnocentric 
perspectives which, I'm sorry to say, are all too common in Western 
Europe and, in particular, in the United States.
Kristjan



On 2012-03-18 17:42, Julian Vein wrote:
> On 18/03/12 13:40, Benno H?upl wrote:
>>
>> Is there a re-issue CD somewhere with a collection of the best dance
>> band recordings from non-US and non-Western European countries?
>> If not, it's about time somebody took care of this. I could supply a few
>> outstanding tracks.
>>
>> Benno
>> .
>> _______________________________________________
>>
> Harlequin put out a series of such reissues on LP years ago, but I don't
> think many were transferred to CD, apart from Charlie And His Orchestra.
>
>        Julian Vein
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