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The award-winning manga of one young man's journey to become the greatest saxophone player in the world. Dai lived a normal high school life in Sendai: a city of hot summer days and rainy nights. Between basketball, part time jobs, and an uncertain future, something was missing. And that thing was music. With his days in senior year running out, Dai swears a heartfelt vow: "I'm gonna be the best jazz player in the world." But what do you need to be the best? Talent? Effort? A lucky break? Or maybe just a deep, pure love for music, and too much stubbornness to know when to quit. Winner of The Shogakukan Manga Award and the Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize for Manga! No library descriptions found. |
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Here our saxophonist is Miyamoto Dai, a Japanese teenager, who has decided to be the greatest jazz player in the world. Self-taught, he spends every spare minute of his days and nights practicing his sax on the banks of the Hirose River in Sendai or telling other people how much he loves jazz. And that's the first third of the book. Eventually he gets some chances to play in public. We're told that he's not a great technical player, but he has that certain something which can move certain listeners.
Slow-paced and low-key, this really drags over the course of 400 pages, though there are some nice character bits toward the very end.
I think this might have seemed more dramatic in Japan where a person boldly repeating out loud he is going to be the best at something may be considered a somewhat shocking breach of etiquette. ( )