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As the title suggests, the second leader album "Under The Spell Of The Blues" released by jazz drummer Kota Sawaguchi is an ambitious work in which a famous jazz musician boldly tried to approach "blues". What is the underlying blues sensation of jazz presented by Kota Sawaguchi in a piano trio with Norihiko Kawakubo (key) and Yohei Tanaka (CB)?
The feeling of blues is very important for jazz, and I think it will be completely different depending on whether it is present or not. However, I don't usually have many opportunities to delve into it, and I rarely meet jazz musicians who profess to like blues. I wonder what happens if we, who usually play jazz, play old blues songs. Of course, the so-called blues people are good, but of course they are only blues. Then, what would a jazz that loves blues do? --- I was also interested.
Regarding song selection, it would be interesting to expand the range from the true blues to a lineup of blues rock and rhythm & blues. I wanted to create something that would be an antithesis for both the jazz world and the blues and R & B scenes.
"People who come out in the 4000s and 4200s of Blue Note Label are, to be clear, blues. Many people feel that there is blues at the root. I remember that fact even for jazz fans of this era. There is a feeling that I want you to do it. It's good to be gorgeous and flashy, or to be urban and refreshing, but it's like struggling and climbing a muddy swamp and going step by step. The feeling was certainly in old jazz. However, if the we focus only on that, it will be an ENKA, so this time I have included songs that I chose to avoid it. I thought about the song selection while imagining the whole picture of the album. "(Interview by Kota Sawaguchi)
