[Shaku] The Long-Lost KPFK Tapes of Jin Nyodo

A while back, I was googling Jin Nyodo just to see what was out there.
In one session I came across a reference to a KPFK radio series on
traditional Japanese music, and it mentioned a set of performances by
Jin Nyodo on Radio Pacifica in the early 1960s.

The program was called "Evening on the Roof," and was hosted by Peter
Yates.

Particularly intriguing was that Jin had apparently played sankyoku as
well as honkyoku.

Not too long after that, Peter Hill came through LA and we had a day of
shakuhachi lessons and general hanging out. The woman who put the day
together was Professor Rachael Rudich, who teaches at Pomona College,
where we held the day's activities. Later that day, I got into a
conversation with her husband, Ron Sappington, who mentioned that,
years before, he had salvaged a garage full of old KPFK tapes years ago
when the radio station was cleaning house.

I mentioned the Jin Nyodo stuff to him, and he dug through the tapes
and found the lost Jin Nyodo concerts, as well as some interestingly
related stuff - in particular, recordings of Myoan-ji temple komuso
playing honkyoku, and some shomyo chant, both with introductions.

Ed Heckerman had a working reel-to-reel tape deck which he lent to Ron.
Ron used it to record the stuff and burn it to CDs, and sent me a set
of disks.

Those music files are now available online as MP3s at:

        http://shikan.org/KPFK

Enjoy!

p.s. if anyone has further information on these performances, please
let me know so I can add the information to this archive.

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Received on Mon Nov 16 13:50:55 2009