Waƙar jazz akan rediyo a Japan

Jazz yana da keɓantacce kuma mai haɓakawa a cikin Japan tare da ingantaccen tarihi tun daga 1920s. A wannan lokacin, an gabatar da mawakan Japan zuwa waƙar jazz ta hanyar raye-raye na mawakan Ba-Amurke waɗanda suka zagaya a ƙasar. Kiɗa na Jazz cikin sauri ya zama sananne kuma ya kafa kansa a matsayin muhimmin nau'in kiɗan a Japan a cikin shekarun 1950. Daya daga cikin mashahuran mawakan jazz daga Japan ita ce Toshiko Akiyoshi, wacce ta shahara a shekarun 1950 tare da babbar kungiyarta. Duke Ellington ya rinjayi salon Akiyoshi kuma sabuwar hanyarta don tsarawa ta zama sautin sa hannu. Wani mawaƙin jazz mai tasiri shine Sadao Watanabe, wanda aka sani da haɗakar jazz na musamman tare da kiɗan gargajiya na Japan. Aikin Watanabe ya kwashe sama da shekaru 50, kuma ya yi hadin gwiwa da shahararrun mawakan jazz, da suka hada da Chick Corea da Herbie Hancock. Kidan jazz a Japan ba a keɓe ga masu kida ba. Mawaka irin su Akiko Yano da Miyuki Nakajima sun ba da gudummawa sosai ga nau'in, musamman a cikin Smooth Jazz subgenre. J Jazz, wani yanki ne na jazz wanda ya haɗa kiɗan Jafananci na gargajiya da jazz, shima sananne ne a Japan. Masu fasaha irin su Hiroshi Suzuki da Terumasa Hino wasu ne daga cikin majagaba na wannan salon, wanda ya samu karbuwa a shekarun 1970. Tashoshin rediyon Jazz a kasar Japan sun hada da "Jazz Tonight" na Tokyo FM wanda ya shafe shekaru sama da 30 yana kan iska, da "Jazz Express" na InterFM, wanda ke dauke da hadewar jazz na zamani da na gargajiya. Sauran gidajen rediyon da ke nuna jazz sun haɗa da "Jazz Billboard" na J-Wave da "Jazz Tonight" na NHK-FM. A ƙarshe, kiɗan jazz ya zama babban jigon kiɗan Jafananci tare da haɗuwa ta musamman tare da kiɗan Jafananci na gargajiya. Shahararrun masu fasaha irin su Toshiko Akiyoshi da Sadao Watanabe ya taimaka wajen samar da irin wannan salo, kuma gidajen rediyon jazz sun zama abin farin ciki ga dimbin masoya wakoki a fadin kasar.