朝イチのバスに乗って、再びボストンでございます。インターナショナル・ストリング・トリオでボストン大学で結婚式のギグでございました。まだ北風が吹いておりましたが、晴れ渡った素晴らしい天気でございました。
I went to Boston once again by the first bus from New York. It was a wedding gig with International String Trio at Boston University. The wind was still cold but there was the blue sky which I had not seen for a while.
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 Ben Powell (Violin)Slava Tolstoy (Guitar) Ippei Ichimaru (Bass) |
なんか知りませんが、私、ずっと電車で移動中のミュージシャンの姿を写真に撮りたかったんです。この日、ようやく撮ることができました。我々はほぼ毎日こうやって移動してるんでっせ。私に後ろにあるドデカいベースと一緒にニューヨーク中どこでも行きます。
なんでしょう、ステージ上の華やかなミュージシャンばかりを撮っているせいかは分かりませんが、普通にギグの場所まで移動してるところとか、ただ一人で練習してるところとかの華やかではない裏の場面を撮りたいと思っている今日このごろでございます。
I don't know why but I always wanted to take a picture of musicians on a move by a train. I finally could take it on that night. This is what we do every day. Can you see the huge bass behind me. I go everywhere in New York with public transport with this gigantic slab of wood.
Maybe because I have been only taking the pictures of musicians on the stage, I recently became more attracted to the musicians off stage, who are just going to the gig, just practicing, having a rest at the break etc.
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The gig was at Museum of the City of New York. Actually that was very first time to come to this museum. I had so much free time before the gig, so I went everywhere in the museum and saw all the exhibitions. That was fun! | |
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| Cody Geil (Vocal, Violin) Eric Nicolas (Vocal, Guitar) Hara Garacci (Guitar) Ippei Ichimaru (Bass) Ian Miller (Drums) | |
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| Cody Geil (Vocal, Violin) Hara Garacci (Guitar) Ippei Ichimaru (Bass) Ian Miller (Drums) | |
WaFooのリハーサルにゆうきちゃんがヨックモックを持って来てくれました。懐かしー！これ、子供のころ大好きでした。本当に２０年ぶりぐらいに口にします。ニューヨークでもボストンでも買えるらしいので、今度買ってくることにしましょう。
Yuki brought a French-style Japanese sweet called Yoku Moku to the rehearsal of WaFoo. I loved it when I was a kid but have not seen it for maybe 20 years or so. I have heard you can buy it at Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue.
サンセット・パークという、ウチの近所のけっこう広い公園でございます。もう少し暖かくなったら、ここに毎日来て三味線と三線を練習しようと思います。
This is quite a good sized park near my apartment, Sunset Park. I will come to this park everyday and practice the shamisen and sanshin once weather get a bit better.
ヴァージン・メガストアが大幅縮小するらしく、アメリカのフラッグシップ・ショップだったタイムズ・スクエアー店が閉店しました。その閉店の最後の日に言ってきました。いやー、色々なマニアックなCDやDVDが置いてあったり、地下が映画館になっていたりして、面白い所ではあったのですが、ちょっと値段が高かったかな〜という気がしてました。あ〜あ、こんなビッグな店も店をたたんじまう世の中なのですねぇ。なんか、不況でどんどんエンターテイメント関係が切られていくのをつぶさに見ているような感じがします。
Virgin Megastore is reducing the business and the one on Times Square, which is the flagship shop in America, is closing down. I went there on the very last day, the last hour. They had so many CDs and DVDs and I loved the nerdy selections which only musicians would know. There was a movie theatre on the bottom floor as well. I enjoyed visiting the store, but, to tell the truth, everything was a bit pricy. I am sure that those prices on the tags were right prices and I think that was why they could not compete with Amazon and those those cheap online retailers. Sighs, even the big company like virgin is closing down nowadays. I feel like I am witnessing the decline of whole entertainment business.
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| 私が好きだったジャズ／ラテン／ワールド・ミュージックのあった地下２階のセクションは閉鎖されていて、すっからかんになっていました。ああ、楽器屋さんに行った帰りには必ず寄る場所だったのに…………… On the second basement, there was the huge section of jazz/Latin/World which I loved, but they are all gone now. I had always stopped by here after I went to music shops. Oh well. |
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| Joe Kaplowitz (Piano) Ippei Ichimaru (Bass) Enrique Haneine (Drums) | |
 Cody Geil (Vocal, Violin)Hara Garacci (Guitar) Ippei Ichimaru (Bass) Marko Djordjevic (Drums) | |
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| 分かりますでしょうか。これ、観葉植物に模したアクターさんたちです。ウネウネとあやしく動いてて、なんかオモロかったです。うーん、実写版フラワーロック。私はサングラスとギターを貸してあげようかと思いました。 Can you see that the ones on the pics are actually actors playing potted plants. I could not figure out what it was for a while. They were moving slowly like a robot.  |
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| うちらのカルテットでの演奏が終わった後にコーディーがソロで演奏したのですが、そのステージ衣装がなんとウェディング・ドレス。なかなか堂々と着こなしていました。なんでも、ウェディング・ドレスをこの日みたいに営業で着るのは、もう今年に入って３回目とか。なんかオモロかったので私とハラも記念撮影。 After the performance of the quartet, Cody was getting ready for her solo act. Her stage costume was the wedding dress. White is really becoming on you, Cody! She said that that was already the third time to wear wedding dress this year for this kind of gigs. Since Hara and I had never seen her in wedding dress, we took some commemorative photos. | |
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| 米国移民局様、 私、市丸一平はこのたび、アメリカ人のピチピチギャルと結婚しました。この写真が動かぬ証拠です。グリーンカードを送って下さい。 かしこ Dear United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, I, Ippei Ichimaru, just married an American girl. This pic is the iron-clad evidence. Please send me a Green Card. Sincerely, | |
お友達のテナーサックス吹きの菊池健司とボストンのアイホップに来ました。健司さんは会話が面白いのでつるむのは大好きなのですが、この日は健司さんの『俺たちもいいかげん、嫁さん探さないとなぁ』との一言で、終始そういう話になりました。いやー、私の夢です。私の人生の夢は大作曲家になって世界中で演奏する、などという事では到底なく、いい嫁さんを見つけて、いい旦那になって、いい父親になって、小さいながらも楽しい我が家を持つのが夢なのですよ。今の私には夢のまた夢なのですが、まあ、いつかね。
Hanging with my buddy and the great tenor saxophonist, Kenji Kikuchi at IHOP in Boston. I love hanging with him because the conversation with him is sophisticated and fun. He said "we have to find a wife soon," and we continued on with this topic. Well, that's my dream. My dream is far from being the greatest world renowned composer or anything, but I want to find a good wife, be a good husband, be a good father and have a home however small it may be. Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. Basically I want to have and I want my family to have completely opposite life from the one I had had when I was a kid. There will be neither any kind of violence nor ill treatments to children and wife in my family but love.
This is my dream. Well, I am tripping over before the first step. I will find somebody someday.
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