Live under the Sky
The Jazz Festival Live under the Sky ( Jap.ライブ· ·ザ·スカイアンダー, Raibu ANDA Za Sukai ) took place from 1977 to 1992 in July and August in the Tokyo area. The festival was the first major open-air music festival in Japan and played a pioneering role in the field of jazz for other festivals such as the Mount Fuji Jazz Festival.
It was founded by Toshinari Koinuma, the head of one of the leading concert agencies for jazz in Japan ( first in Japan in 1974 ), Abdullah Ibrahim, Don Cherry, Andrew Hill and the Art Ensemble of Chicago in the 1970s, for the first time by, among others, Keith Jarrett Japan moved. Model was the Newport Jazz Festival, on the Koinuma 1967 was as road manager for Nobuo Hara & His Sharps and Flats, the first Japanese group at the Newport Festival.
1977 to 1981 it was in the open air Those Coliseum in Ōta ( Tokyo ) instead of ( actually for tennis events), the preconceived approximately 10,000 listeners. After a year break, it was continued in 1983 in the Open Theater East at the amusement park Yomiuri land in Tokyo. In 1987 she celebrated her tenth anniversary with a press party in New York and in the same year a branch in the Queen Elizabeth Hall was founded in Hong Kong.
There were, for example, 1981 Sonny Rollins and Herbie Hancock ( with his VSOP quintet already opened in 1977 ) to 1983 Weather Report, Chick Corea Trio, Sonny Rollins Quartet and The Crusaders, in 1984, the Gil Evans Orchestra and Herbie Hancock Rockit tape, 1985 Miles Davis Septet, 1986 Ornette Coleman, the duo Larry Coryell / Al Di Meola, Chick Corea Electric band that Herbie Hancock Quartet. 1987, there was a tribute to John Coltrane with Wayne Shorter and others, and there were Steve Gadd (The Gadd response), and Miles Davis, Sun Ra Arkestra in 1988, Miles Davis with Okett, David Sanborn, 1989 was marked by Michael Brecker and a Duke Ellington Tribute, in 1991, the Orchestre National de Jazz, Milton Nascimento, Shorter and Hancock on with Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller and 1992 there was also a Marcus Miller project, performances by Hancock 's VSOP Quintet and Pat Metheny.
From the Japanese side came on, among other things Terumasa Hino and Sadao Watanabe, and it also joined Roberta Flack, Elis Regina, Carlos Santana, Ron Carter and Al Jarreau on.
Koinuma organized from 1985 to 1991 the festival Tokyo Music Joy, played on, among others, Steve Gadd, Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Michael Brecker, Lester Bowie.
Discography
- Herbie Hancock, V.S.O.P. Quintet / Tempest in the Colosseum (1977 )
- Jazz of Japan: Live under the Sky '77 (1977 )
- Tony Williams All Stars: Live under the Sky ( 1978)
- Tony Williams / The Joy of Flying (1978 )
- McCoy Tyner / Passion Dance ( 1978)
- Ron Carter / 1 3 ( 1978)
- Galaxy All-Stars In Tokyo: Live under the Sky ( 1978)
- Hancock, V.S.O.P. Quintet / Live under the Sky ( 1979)
- Herbie Hancock Rockit Band In Japan (Video 1984)
- Various: Tribute to John Coltrane (1987: CD and video, including Joshua Redman, Michael Brecker, New York Voices, Dave Liebman, Dave Holland, Christian McBride )