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Blue Giant
| Alt Names: |  ブルージャイント |
| Author: | Ishizuka Shinichi |
| Artist: | Ishizuka Shinichi |
| Genres: |  Award Winning Music Seinen |
| Type: | Manga (Japanese) |
| Status: | Ongoing |
| Description: | The latest great works by Ishizuka Shinichi! A high school 3rd year student, Miyamoto Dai, whose heart was touched by Jazz, continued to play the Saxophone alone in Kawahara, rain or shine, day or night, for many years. "I want to become the world's best Saxophone player...!!" Effort, talent, faith, environment, luck...which are necessary? A tale of reaching towards his goal recklessly and sincerely begins in Hirosegawa, Sendai. Nominated for the 8th and 9th Manga Taisho Award. Won the 2016 Shougakukan Manga Award in the general category alongside Juuhan Shuttai!. And won the 20th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards Grand Prize. Sequel: > Blue Giant Supreme (http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/blue-giant-supreme-r21050) |
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>Nominated for the 8th and 9th Manga Taisho Award.
Followed.
I really should start adding more Jazz music again to my playlist, thanks for the list mmm...
And I can really feel how I get motivated to do something after reading this manga mmm...
Yep. Yep.
Manga about jazz.
Following this all day erry day.
quick updates. wonderful
Thank you for the list! ^^
Made a youtube playlist for it
http://youtu.be/rmkGFlh5C2Y
Let's get this blue train rolling!
(I am very bad at puns...)
There are two "soundtracks" it seems that mainly have bebop/hard-bop stuff from the 50-60s.
http://www.universal-music.co.jp/blue-giant/
Translation of the track listings:
BLUE GIANT
1. Newk's Fadeaway - Sonny Rollins
2. November Afternoon - Dizzy Gillespie
3. I Remember Clifford - Lee Morgan
4. Deep Night - Sonny Clark
5. Kofi - Donald Byrd
6. Confirmation - Charlie Parker
7. Tempus Fugit - Bud Powell
8. Dear Lord - John Coltrane
9. Eclypso - Tommy Flanagan & John Coltrane
10. Remember - Hank Mobley
11. Visitation - Paul Chambers
12. Where or When - Clifford Brown
13. 'Round Midnight - Thelonious Monk
The Sounds of BLUE GIANT
1. Johnny Griffin - Olive Refractions
2. I'm a Fool to Want You - Dexter Gordon
3. Moment's Notice - John Coltrane
4. Night in Tunisia - Sonny Rollins
5. Moanin' - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
6. Well, You Needn't - Thelonious Monk
7. Cherokee - Clifford Brown
8. Countdown - John Coltrane
9. Time Was - John Coltrane
10. Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock
Is there a playlist for this manga?
Finally someone started this. Thank you so much Golden Roze.
Thanks Golden Roze mmm...~!
Btw this is the first thought when I see the title and the cover mmm...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gib43AKiXc0
Wow. Someone actually started this. Kudos to you guys.
Hikaru no Jazz.
this was a dumb joke the translator did while doing it