Introduction
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photo by morishita
 The Jazzboilers is a mixture of trad jazzmen in Tokyo, Japan who gathered
with an intention to play New Orleans jazz at streets. Formed in 1995.
Its home ground is Inokashira Park locating in Kichijoji, Musashino-shi Tokyo.
As a result of continuous effort to play (sometimes being covered by mud and sometimes getting fully wet under the rain) with a hope to play like
sandlot baseball or benchchair chess, the total number of performance recently exceeded 100 times ! Now we
used to be talked by awaiting fans so that we feel as if we are in a story
of rakugo comic storytelling, but we had thought that a band is somewhat more fashionable...
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We are frequently asked by audiences "hey, don't you play at live
restaurants ?". Actually we sometimes receive offers from such restaurants,
but we respectfully refuse them, partly because it is rather difficult
to gather at weekday nights, and partly because playing music under the sun is so much fun ! When the music starts, a joyful situation takes over where babies begin to cry, aged listeners begin to dance, and dogs passes across the band. We are sorry about the inconvenience or difficulty to access but we believe that our policy would be accepted by our fans.
As performance is held only one time in a month, and at an open-air park,
our performance is mercilessly postponed to the next month in case it rains. We understand that it is
quite an inconvenient style of activity in this 21st century, but we believe
- while without a stable basis - that such an inconveniency, in turn, enhances
keenness of impulse of our music and thereby produces beautiful jazz !
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photo by asako
We have heard seven times in total from unknown fans stating "tears came into my eyes when I listend to the Jazzboilers at the park", while we wonder whether our music is good to that degree. At any rate, the joy of playing filling our enthusiastic performances, and groove feeling of our music, appear to be favourably accepted by audiences having good ears, so that we had some concerts at special occasions such as Kichijoji Music Festival "Street Jazz Time" (14th to 19th), Takashimaya Dept. Sinjuku Store 1st & 2nd anniversaries, the 1st Okubo Festival, Tokyo Non-professional Big Bands Union 19th annual concert (guest), and Tachikawa Sakae Public Hall (one-man concert). We are also willing to play outside the park, maybe depending on payments, so please feel free to contact us.
In 1993 we have won a Tokyo Metropolitan Government's official street performance
license named "Heaven Artists". We had applied for it just out
of necessity, but are a little bit proud of it, in view of the competitive rate which was 14.0 for music performers section. Anyway it was a great effort
to play for its audition held at Metropolitan Government Office Square,
as it was held in a day in August of 33 degrees centigrade...
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