Following up the other day’s punishment with something of a lighter, breezier variety. It’s almost criminally rhythmic though. I’ve listened to it about 14 times today since writing this, going on 15, and probably will not stop with that. This track kinda just feels like a waterfall of music is cascading through your ears. There’s a great live performance on YouTube featuring jazz bassist Richard Bona, but I’ll drop a link in the comments to the vanilla.

Watanabe Sadao started clarinet after being influenced by the movie, “The Birth of Blues,” at the age of 15. He would then lead several Japanese jazz groups, becoming a bright star for the jazz world. After studying music at the Berklee College for some time, he became heavily involved in the Brazilian jazz scene, and would ultimately go on to ignite a bossa-nova boom in Japan.