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HELP:
Phil James Family Emergency Fund
WASTE TIME:
Shakuhachi Beat
What is Shakuhachi Beat?
Think of this blog as a bit like Raymond Chandler cruising the back streets of Los Angeles in a '48 Tucker sedan with a dark Taimu bass shakuhachi by his side.
Or perhaps, Easy Rawlins packing a thick 1.6 nobekan.
Imagine if Jack Kerouac, Neil Cassady or Gary Snyder blew the bamboo?
What if Lester Young leaped in with a 2.2? Or Paul Desmond floated his first lines of Take Five with a vintage Shiro hassun?
Join us for a cup of dark downtown brew while we ramble through randomly random perspectives during the Great Western Shakuhachi Transmission of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Or perhaps, Easy Rawlins packing a thick 1.6 nobekan.
Imagine if Jack Kerouac, Neil Cassady or Gary Snyder blew the bamboo?
What if Lester Young leaped in with a 2.2? Or Paul Desmond floated his first lines of Take Five with a vintage Shiro hassun?
Join us for a cup of dark downtown brew while we ramble through randomly random perspectives during the Great Western Shakuhachi Transmission of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Shakuhachi Music from Amazon
Essential shakuhachi info sites
komuso.com International Shakuhachi Society
Myoan Shakuhachi blog
Myoan Take Chicago featuring Morimasa Horiuchi's work
Web site of Kaoru Kakizakai — one of the late Yokoyama Katsuya-sensei's foremost students
Online beginner's videos at Mejiro
Jeff Shoudo Cairns' website and hanko database
Chikuho Ryu Master Riley Lee Performance schedule, discography, PhD thesis on shakuhachi honkyoku. Great CDs direct from the master-musician himself.
Michael Chikuzen Gould online lessons
zenflute.com/gallery.html John Singer's ancient shakuhachi gallery and CDs.
ryuzen.com Learning resources and CDs from Alcvin Takegawa Ramos
Shakuhachi Forum A happening place, but don't piss off the moderators unless you want your user name changed.
Perry Yung Shakuhachi Blog Enlightening repair and making tips from a traditionally trained American craftsperson
mujitsu.com Watch master maker Ken LaCosse make shakuhachi LIVE! (Videocast times vary)
Myoan Shakuhachi blog
Myoan Take Chicago featuring Morimasa Horiuchi's work
Web site of Kaoru Kakizakai — one of the late Yokoyama Katsuya-sensei's foremost students
Online beginner's videos at Mejiro
Jeff Shoudo Cairns' website and hanko database
Chikuho Ryu Master Riley Lee Performance schedule, discography, PhD thesis on shakuhachi honkyoku. Great CDs direct from the master-musician himself.
Michael Chikuzen Gould online lessons
zenflute.com/gallery.html John Singer's ancient shakuhachi gallery and CDs.
ryuzen.com Learning resources and CDs from Alcvin Takegawa Ramos
Shakuhachi Forum A happening place, but don't piss off the moderators unless you want your user name changed.
Perry Yung Shakuhachi Blog Enlightening repair and making tips from a traditionally trained American craftsperson
mujitsu.com Watch master maker Ken LaCosse make shakuhachi LIVE! (Videocast times vary)
Search 2.0
Places to cruise for good shakuhachi
I have found these makers and sellers to be excellent, reliable sources for shakuhachi. Please feel free to email me your experiences.
japanshakuhachi.com David Sawyer's American-based online store. Highly recommended.
mejiro.com Japanese online shakuhachi store
mujitsu.com Taimu and Mujitsu shakuhachi. Also Chinese Madake hocchiku
Chikuzen Studios
shakuhachiyuu.com The place to find the resin cast shakuhachi, The Yuu, David Brown's fine hardwood shakuhachi in the USA and various shakuhachi treasures
nyogetsu.com Flutes from Ronnie Seldin
ryuzen.com Shugetsu shakuhachi, Ryuzen jinashi and other shakuhachi
shakuhachi.com home of Tai Hei flutes and refurbished vintage shakuhachi from Monty Levenson
yungflutes.com hocchiku, Chikusing and Yung Shakuhachi by Perry Yung
japanshakuhachi.com David Sawyer's American-based online store. Highly recommended.
mejiro.com Japanese online shakuhachi store
mujitsu.com Taimu and Mujitsu shakuhachi. Also Chinese Madake hocchiku
Chikuzen Studios
shakuhachiyuu.com The place to find the resin cast shakuhachi, The Yuu, David Brown's fine hardwood shakuhachi in the USA and various shakuhachi treasures
nyogetsu.com Flutes from Ronnie Seldin
ryuzen.com Shugetsu shakuhachi, Ryuzen jinashi and other shakuhachi
shakuhachi.com home of Tai Hei flutes and refurbished vintage shakuhachi from Monty Levenson
yungflutes.com hocchiku, Chikusing and Yung Shakuhachi by Perry Yung
Shakuhachi & Zen Video to own or rent
A Buck for a Beat
http://homegrown-hope.blogspot.com/ and donate to the Phil Nyokai James Family Emergency Fund. Phil is a shakuhachi master and teacher and he had stroke recently. So he and his brand new baby Julian and little mama Lara need the bread to make squares and keep a tee-pee over their heads, dig? Be kind, Justice is blind. A few skins goes a long way toward keeping the bankers at bay.
From Amazon
About the Shakuhachi Beat masthead
The Shakuhachi Beat masthead started when I swiped a jpeg of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks at the Diner off of a museum website. I added a ghostly komuso, transformed the lady in the red dress into a Kabuki onnagata and replaced one of the fedora-ed men's drink of coffee with saki. The broken electric sign to the left of the komuso reads in Chinese "Asphalt Musician." The artwork was made to the size you see above. There is no larger version of it. It took hours of obsessive Photoshopping to complete to my liking. It has no intrinsic value.
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About Me
- Chris Moran
- Claremont, California, United States
- A shakuhachi non-professional (i.e. a student and enthusiast) and a publishing professional working in journalism, the Web, graphic arts and public relations. The blog title is a triple-entendre: "Beat" as in the area or topic a reporter covers; "Beat" as in the great American literary and cultural movement of the 1950s; "Beat" as in rhythm.
All contents of this blog are copyright © 2007 Chris Moran, Pomona, California 91767. If you are a journalist and use this blog as a source, contact me via email before you get something indelibly wrong.