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406: 33: 345:, wrote of Shindo's work on the film: "The movie is being regarded as a vehicle that will create a demand for Japanese music in this country and do much to give the Western world a better understanding of Japanese culture." Shindo added, "An important part of what this picture is doing for an understanding of Japanese culture comes from the music. We have, of course, adapted it for the occidental ear." 533: 524:. One reviewer wrote: "Also on this record is some exciting music by Tak Shindo: Behind this music's fragility there is great emotional power. It's Japanese in antecedent one supposes. If you're too young to have this record stir memories, perhaps it will stimulate you into washing out your gym clothes and going out to look the world over." 335:
Shindo, Professor Sheppard noted: "Shindo suddenly found the mainstream spotlight shining on him in the late 1950s as the representative of Japanese musical culture in Hollywood film and television." He first gained general notoriety for his work as technical adviser for the music in the 1957 motion picture,
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label in Japan in 1966. The album features traditional Japanese folk melodies with eastern and western instrumentation. In his review for allmusic.com, Jason Ankeny calls it "clearly the most appealing and imaginative album of the bunch ... A beautiful, thoughtful album, free of kitsch and irony."
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Following the war, Shindo studied music at Los Angeles State College and studied jazz composition at the American Operatic Laboratory school. He also formed a dance band in 1947, which he continued to operate for more than 25 years. In a 1947 interview, Shindo discussed the multi-ethnic composition
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Pierson wrote that Shindo's "skillful arrangements of big band chestnuts and Hollywood theme tunes achieved a blend that was witty, cosmopolitan, and almost immediately outmoded as the ascendancy of rock and its youth market turned American pop music into an arena of generational identity politics."
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camp records listed his date of birth as November 29, 1922. Another record states that Shindo's birth date is November 11, 1922, and notes that this date was taken directly from Shindo's birth certificate. According to Sheppard, Shindo consistently told him that his date of birth was November 11,
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magazine in 1960 wrote: "Tak mixes ancient Eastern and modern Western instruments in a steamy dance sukiyaki." Another reviewer wrote that "the music is neither Oriental nor jazz, but a delightful, different sound" providing "nothing but fun for stereo fanciers." Writing for allmusic.com, Richard
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While he had some musical experience, he had just begun college before Pearl Harbor and had no thoughts of pursuing music as a career. ... Shindo performed in one of the camp orchestras and took advantage of the camp's musical education program. Most significantly for his later career, he also took
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are both divided "into two utterly different racial/musical realms." One half of the covers features a Caucasian woman "presented as sexually sophisticated and modern as she appears caressing and surrounded by phallic instruments," while the other half features a Japanese woman dressed in a kimono
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contributed a Chinese gong acquired on a trip to Hong Kong. At the time of the album's release, Shindo said: "It . . . introduces a foreign sound to the American ear. Oriental instruments have been used for solo passages in record before, but as far as I know this is the first time they have ever
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Shindo also collected Japanese instruments and wrote and lectured on Japanese music. In the late 1950s and 1960s, Shindo was frequently called on by Hollywood film and television productions to serve as a technical consultant on projects incorporating Japanese music and themes. In his article on
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peaked in 1959 as Denny's album "Exotica" spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart and was the No. 3 album of the year according to Billboard. Shindo later recalled what attracted him to the style: "Everyone is looking for a style. So in my case, I decided being Oriental, I had
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been an integral part of the arrangements." One reviewer rated it as the "Album of the Month" for April 1960, calling it a "sparkling debut" with "a new, refreshing blend of music of the East and West, big band dance arrangements spiced with exotic instrumental sounds of the orient."
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There is some discrepancy in official records concerning Shindo's precise date of birth. The U.S. Social Security Administration's Social Security Death Index lists Shindo's date of birth as December 29, 1922. However, Shindo biographer W. Anthony Sheppard has noted that Shindo's
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and developed his interest in music. Music professor W. Anthony Sheppard, who published an article on Shindo and his music in 2005, concluded that, had it not been for his internment at Manzanar, Shindo would most likely have become an electrical engineer. Sheppard observed:
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opened up numerous opportunities for him. He noted that "the whole thing just lined up one after the other ... it just rode and rode to the point I couldn't keep up with it anymore." Other projects in which Shindo was asked to consult (or compose) include
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music genre during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Shindo also founded a dance band in 1947 and was a frequent lecturer and writer on Japanese music. He first gained prominence for his work on the 1957 motion picture
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policy that was adopted after the outbreak of war between the United States and Japan. Shindo spent more than two years at Manzanar. While at Manzanar, he worked as a reporter for the
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in the mid-1960s. His work, "Impressions for Piano and Strings," premiered at Cal State Los Angeles in 1967. In 1970, Shindo received a master's degree in Asian Studies from the
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in 1979, the same year that he retired from Cal State LA. In 1980, he released a documentary film, "Encounter with the Past," about the Manzanar relocation camp.
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named Shindo as a "Giant of Jazz" in the fifteenth article in Feather's series on the "giants of jazz." His albums won favor with listeners of music in the
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Shindo is most remembered for the albums he recorded featuring a mix of eastern and western musical styles and instrumentation. Jazz composer and critic
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of his band: "As long as a player can produce good music, that's all I'm interested in. My band is supposed to be Japanese-American. But besides the four
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did not achieve the same level of commercial success as its predecessor, and Capitol informed Shindo in March 1961 that it would not renew his contract.
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as "vibrant and intoxicating, with a rhythmic intensity quite uncommon for its era. For an artificial experience, it packs a genuine wallop."
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Shindo's albums drew attention for their cover art as well as the music. Music professor W. Anthony Sheppard has written that the covers of
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has been called "Shindo's orchestral fantasy of Africa" and is probably the best known of his albums in the exotica genre.
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Shindo received his bachelor's degree in 1951 from Los Angeles City College and subsequently studied under film composer
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His other albums for the Nippon Victor label included "Mood in Japan" (1964) and "Midnight in San Francisco" (1966).
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on it, I have Jewish, Negro, Russian, Irish, and Mexican-American boys on it. And we have a swell time together."
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William D. Laffler (February 20, 1963). "Popular Records: Ella Fitzgerald Treatment Brightens Arlen Song Book".
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Paul Mark and His Orchestra and Voices, "Golden Melodies from Japan: (1961, Imperial LP 9161/LP 12075)
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Shindo's albums received renewed attention in the 1990s with the revival of interest in exotica and
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Pat Hinton (April 18, 1960). "Highlights: The Realm of Entertainment and Other Scopes".
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Roger Matz (April 1, 1960). "Record Review: Album Introduces New Musical Combination".
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genre. The album explores the primal rhythms of African music with influences from
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Paul Mark and His Orchestra, "East to West" (1961, Imperial LP 9120/LP 12057)
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1922, which date was also confirmed by Sheppard with Shindo's daughter.
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Tak Shindo, "Mganga! Primitive Sounds" (1958, Edison International 100)
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and Shindo was asked to complete the follow-up album within 30 days.
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something I should draw upon and so I decided to go 'exotic sound.'"
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was requested by Capitol Records as a follow-up to the success of
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Superstar" (1983) – composer for show at Las Vegas Stardust Hotel
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Shindo also gained positive reviews for his instrumental work on
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American musician, composer, arranger, and bandleader (1922–2002)
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Seven Wonders of the World" (1955, Warner-Adventure) – composer
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Hiroshi Watanabe's Star Dust Orchestra, "Mood in Japan" (1964,
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Capitol, Mercury, Edison International, Imperial, Nippon Victor
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relocation camp where he was relocated in 1942 as part of the
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Tak Shindo, "Midnight in San Francisco" (1966, Nippon Victor)
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in 1944 and served as a Japanese language instructor in the
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Tak Shindo, "Accent on Bamboo" (1961, Capitol T-1433)
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Index

Shindo at the Manzanar Relocation Center, c. 1943
Manzanar Relocation Center
Sacramento, California
San Dimas, California
Exotica
space age pop
lounge music
Japanese music
Clarinet
koto
Japanese
exotica
Sayonara
Gunsmoke
The Ed Sullivan Show
Wagon Train
Rafu Shimpo
classical
popular music
Manzanar
Japanese American internment
Sacramento, California
Los Angeles State College
Manzanar Relocation Center
Japanese American internment
U.S. Army
Military Intelligence Service
Fort Snelling, Minnesota
Nisei
Miklós Rózsa

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