Toku is known as a jazz singer and flugel horn player in Japan. He is getting popular and now, he is a main character of an advertisement of bourbon called Four Roses. I haven’t heard his songs before except TV commercial song.
The bar was filled with young women. There were also men but it seemed they were brought by their girl friends. For me, jazz is music for elder people, so this was a very rare experience.
Unfortunately, I was getting sleepy after the show started.
I didn’t go mad. She was a guest of this concert. Her name was Tokiwa Kinoshita and she was a bossa nova singer. She sang some Brazilian songs which included “the girl from Ipanema”. That was quite fun to listened to. Her voice was smooth and beautiful! You can feel the warmth in Brazil, even though you are in winter in Japan.
I liked Toku’s songs too, although I was sleepy. He was cool while he was singing… Well, his voice was quite sexy because it was low and husky. I know it doesn’t sound that I enjoyed this concert at all, but I enjoyed it!!!
http://toku-jazz.com/
The homepage of Tokiwa Kinoshita http://www1.ttcn.ne.jp/~tokiwa/