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Dairo Suga

細井徳太郎

秋元修

Tide

Switch It

Chamakana

A Little Rag … For You

This Thing

林理惠 Mars Lin

郑顺聪

舒伯特联篇歌曲《冬之旅》是古典音乐的瑰宝，人声独唱加一台钢琴，以24首歌曲诉说一名失恋者的旅程。

《冬之旅──台语爵士浪游》计画分两阶段：第一阶段由谢明谚以爵士四重奏重新编曲，林理惠演唱郑顺聪的台语诗词，配合音乐剧场《末日前的冬之旅》，2025年4月在台北表演艺术中心公演。导演鸿鸿以舞台叙事将之构筑成文明与社会进展的寓言，郑顺聪则参考威廉・穆勒的原始诗作及舒伯特的音乐灵感，加上舞台意象和台湾当代情境，创作出全新歌词。

第二阶段则在演出后调整词曲，独立录制发行。跨越将近两百年的时空和文化隔阂，开创出台语爵士的特殊情味。

Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise is a masterpiece of classical music. Comprising 24 songs for solo voice and piano, it tells the poignant story of a heartbroken man’s journey.
Tang-tsi-lí: A Jazz Winterreise, presents a fresh reinterpretation of this classic. Arranged for jazz quartet by Minyen Hsieh, featuring Taiwanese lyrics by Tēnn Sūn-tshong and singing by Mars Lin, the work was performed as part of the music theatre production Journey into the Apocalypse at the Taipei Performing Arts Center in April 2025. Directed by Hung Hung, the production reimagines Winterreise as an allegory of civilization and social progress. Drawing inspiration from Wilhelm Müller’s original poems and Schubert’s music, Tēnn infused the lyrics with contemporary Taiwanese imagery and themes.
This recording, based on the live performance, transcends nearly two centuries of time and cultural distance, creating a distinctive and evocative blend of Taiwanese jazz.

冬之旅──台语爵士浪游Tang-tsi-lí_A Jazz Winterreise sung in Taiwanese

Resa Club

李宇宸

Masterpiece

鸿鸿

爵士诗灵魂夜 A Soulful Night of Jazz Poetry

一张精纯的爵士乐，也是文学的立体展演！

台湾第一张爵士诗专辑。由爵士音乐家谢明谚与诗人鸿鸿联手制作，邀请八位年龄、背景不同的诗人──分别来自台湾、香港、澳门的郑烱明、陈家带、鸿鸿、廖伟棠、曹疏影、袁绍珊、崔香兰及林理惠，以截然相异的声音及语言、腔调，读出自己的诗行，乐手则以即兴的声响回应。谢明谚率领衔的杰出乐手，包括钢琴曾增译、贝斯池田欣弥、鼓组林伟中，以及客串的长号邓亦峻，呈现了一个既平行又交织的状态：音乐让诗的意象更加有穿透力，诗也让音乐更能带听者进入情节。加上林理惠深富磁性的戏剧性嗓音，或变化声线，吟唱经典曲目，或以灵动的声音穿梭。就像所有爵士乐的演奏一样，在电光石火间完成，一期一会，无可复制。

专辑的一面是诗与爵士乐传统的对话，包括献给盖希文、比莉・哈乐黛、查特・贝克、约翰・佐恩的诗，鸿鸿也以〈台北蓝调〉为台湾历史最悠久的爵士酒吧留下印记。另一面则是对台湾历史与当代生存的探索：林理惠的〈请问芳名〉将妮娜・西蒙的黑人女权歌曲〈四女性〉填上新词，纪念四位白色恐怖的受难女性；郑烱明〈倾听〉则是为美丽岛事件所写的召唤。

文化评论者包德乐（Dean Anthony Brink）教授评道：「这张专辑反映出爵士乐的主题与节奏，同时也体现了歌手、诗人和演奏者的精采互动……可说完全捕捉到了现场戏剧表演的兴奋张力。」

Jazz is relatively unknown in Taiwan, which lends a freshness to these fusions of poetry and acoustic instrumental accompaniment, which each opens to the other. Jazz signifies a wide variety of styles, with its very roots bound up in the pentatonic transgressions of the blues, Gospel’s telltale call and response, and a muted channeling of the energy in ragtime. Its forms of expression range from jazz standards with a big band of lounge sound, to stride piano and scatting and even electronic experimentation. The original renditions and variations of jazz classics and recent edgy work are each accompanied by a poetry read in one of multiple Chinese dialects—Taiwanese, Cantonese and Mandarin—and some English. What I like most about this particular collaboration of poets and musicians is that the voices of the singer and the poetry create a parallel movement that sometimes overlaps and often engages in dialogic interaction—notable intense with the saxophone on “Listening,” by Cheng Chiung-ming. Mars Lin’s “Should You Ask My Name” is a powerful reinterpretation of Nina Simone’s bitter pathbreaking black civil rights song “Four Women,” which outlined various harmful stereotypes of African American women, suggesting an empathetic personae-embodiment-and-deconstruction of the suffering of black women in being pegged in these stereotypes that perpetuate unkind racializing attitudes that objectify divisions among us. The four women in Lin’s poem are victims of Taiwan’s White Terror, the climatic final one being the famous case of Ting Yao-tiao (丁窈窕 1927-1956), who was killed by firing squad merely due a personal vendetta and false accusations of being a communist. Reflexively folding into jazz themes and rhythms, Chen Chia-tai’s “Rhapsody on Gershwin” touches on motifs in jazz while embodying some of the interplay of singer, poet, and players. Hung Hung’s “John Zorn, Taipei Impromptu, 1995” is one of the more dramatic, minimalist and experimental on the album, even humorous at times in its impeccably edited syncopation of instruments punctuated by verses. It even captures the excitement and intensity of his live theatrical performances. 

——Dean Anthony Brink, Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Author of Poetics and Justice in America, Japan, and Taiwan: Configuring Change and Entitlement (2021).

爵士诗灵魂夜 A Soulful Night of Jazz Poetry

Leo37

Flowstrong

In a time where opinion rules supreme, this is a reminder to be yourself. 
No matter what.

Makes No Difference (Explicit)

這是薩克斯風手明諺的第二張實體個⼈人專輯。也是在即興音樂裡相當罕見的錄音室作品。
樂手除了了有台灣即興鋼琴第⼀一把交椅李世揚之外，最特別的是日本國寶，高齡75歲的世界知名即興爵士鼓/二胡 豐住芳三郎Sabu Toyozumi。三人自2013年年起就有陸續在台灣和日本有合作演出，於是在2017第二屆台灣國際即興音樂節的巡迴空檔之中，他們花了了一個下午的時間在錄音室裡，姿意揮灑。
而從3小時的錄音素材中，精選出了50分鐘的音樂。即興音樂講究一氣呵成，以及捕捉演奏當下獨一無二的吉光片羽。所以通常出版的都是現場錄音，但是較不易有好的音質水準。本張專輯就是以希望能完整捕捉到樂器所有細節聲響，加上完善的混音後製來來完成一張最高規格的即興音樂作品。
而水滋養萬物，一切都需要它才能發生延續，在自然中以各式各樣的型態出現，無限循環。所以「上善若水」意指的是：即興音樂有如水一般的純粹。是去除掉多餘的定義之後，回歸到的聲音本質探索。隨著標題帶來聽覺上的指引，加上音樂中三人多變的樂器音色還有許多妙不可言的互動，這是一張充滿故事性的音樂專輯。用50分鐘來沈澱自我的心靈，讓形色萬變的音符如水的各種型態將聽覺固化，讓身體液化，進而汽化聆聽中的神識，若水而至善。


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