Today’s guest deejay is Meg Okura .
Meg is an American jazz violinist, composer, erhu player, and leader of the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble, based in New York City. The Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble combines jazz, Jewish and Japanese cultures into a unique musical identity.
On today’s show, Meg plays select tracks from the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble, various projects she’s been involved with, music that showcases her influences and expresses her identities.
Join us next week with our guest deejay will be Muriel Grossman .
I have a very complicated personal identity and somewhat of a conflicting one. And my music reflects that as well. But had I not play the violin, I would have never fought with Jewish bands, and have my parents not converted to Christianity, I would have never become a musician, because I was conceived to become a church musician. So in the end, my personal intersection of identities and that of my music art the same.
—Meg Okura
- Meg Okura & The Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble “Ima Ima” from Ima Ima
Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp - Meg Okura & The Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble “Naima” from Naima
Amazon | Apple Music - Meg Okura & The Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble “Tango” from Meg Okura: Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto
Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp - Emilio Solla y La Inestable de Brooklyn “Para la Paz” from Second Half
Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp - Brian Marsella’s Imaginarium “Secret Ways of the Songbirds” from chapter one: THE CLOCKS HAVE GONE MAD
Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp - NPO Trio, Meg Okura | Sam Newsome | Jean-Michel Pilc “A Four Forty” from Live At The Stone
Amazon | Apple Music - Meg Okura & The Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble “Birth of Shakyamuni”, Ima Ima
Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp
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