SOUND OF DHARMA :
EVENING OF BUDDHIST JAZZ

Saturday,April 10th - 7:00pm
HOMPA HONGWANJI KAIKAN HALL
815 EAST FIRST STREET,LOS ANGELES,CA90012

There were a large an audience of about 300 at the concert. Rev.Joseph Jarman and TROY winds with Rev.Toyoda(TRAY winds) participated EVENING OF BUDDHIST JAZZ.

Early in 1969,Rev.Joseph traveled to Europe with a group of musicians,Art Ensemble of Chicago.Rev.Joseph and Rev.Toyoda is Buddhist and great musican.Rev.Toyoda has been a professional jazz drummer for more than 30 years.

TRAY winds is fusion band. They play a lot of music genre. Classical music,Jazz,Japanese traditional music and so on. Yutaka, Ray and Toshi are playing music in their life for a long time.Toshi is composer, pianist, arranger and scientist too. His song "UNAGI" played at 2st stage. Rev.Toyoda admired "UNAGI isn't Jazz and Japanese traditional music. It's New Sound!!" Toshi said " I make songs that humans and everyone respect nature."
It's very comfortable and melancholy sound.

Joseph Jarman : Sax,Fulte,Vocal,Bell
<TROY winds(TRAY winds)>
Toshi Maezawa : Piano
Ray Nomura : Keyboard
Akira Toyoda : Drum
Yutaka Ando : Bass

1st stage Joseph Jarman with TRAY winds
1 Joseph Song
2 Buddha Song
3 Joseph Song (with Akira and Yutaka)
4 Happiness Is (with TRAY winds)
5 Trio LifeTime Visions (with TRAY winds)

Rev.Joseph has peculiar music world. His sounds isn't popular common music.
Sometimes he sang about Buddhism,expressed and played the Universe.
It was quietness and the mysteries of the Orient.

2nd stage TRAY winds
1 Rair(Air on G string)
2 UNAGI
3 Cantloop Island
4 A Remark You Made
5 Touryanse
6 Spain
7 Over The Rainbow
8 Open Your Eyes (with Joseph)

by Toshi Maezawa

You can listen to "Rair" and "UNAGI" under the TROY winds's site.

TROY winds : http://popup7.tok2.com/home2/troywinds/
Toshi Maezawa : http://www37.tok2.com/home2/tmp/