台湾歌谣遇上爵士乐：台北爵士大乐队11月底巡演登陆新奥尔良
文化部驻休士顿台湾书院与美国纽奥尔良爵士博物馆（New Orleans Jazz Museum，简称NOJM）深化合作，促成台北爵士大乐队今年11月底赴北美巡演：乐团将登上爵士乐圣地纽奥尔良、参加第9届"即兴演奏盛会"（Improvisations Gala）爵士音乐盛会，并赴亚洲协会德州中心（Asia Society Texas）、路易斯安那州立大学（Louisiana State University）等地演出交流，为海外观众带来源自台湾歌谣的原创爵士飨宴。
台北爵士大乐队由知名萨克斯风演奏家、学者李承育担任音乐总监暨指挥，汇集台湾顶尖、活跃于古典与爵士乐坛的专业乐手，曾获选为国艺会"Taiwan Top"演艺团队。此次北美巡演将带来多首台湾歌谣爵士精选曲目，呈现乐团多年深耕"台湾歌谣爵士委托创作计划"的成果——长期邀请海内外作曲及编曲家，以爵士大乐团形式重新诠释台湾歌谣、童谣与民间音乐。
巡演曲目涵盖"台湾歌谣之父"邓雨贤的《四季红》《月夜愁》《望春风》《雨夜花》，以及《基隆山之恋》《高山青》《港都夜雨》等。熟悉的台湾旋律融入爵士大乐团丰富的管乐声响、节奏律动与即兴语汇，在当代爵士中展现崭新风貌，也让承载世代记忆的台湾音乐跨越语言与地域，与国际听众对话。
值得一提的是，驻休士顿台湾书院与纽奥尔良爵士博物馆自2022年起即展开合作，持续邀请台湾爵士乐团赴美演出；现任馆长格雷格·兰布西（Greg Lambousy）曾受文化部邀请访台，拜访多位台湾爵士音乐家及艺文机构。
行前，台北爵士大乐队将于10月12日在国家两厅院演出《感爵台湾》美巡行前音乐会，完整呈现美国演出的精选曲目，让台湾观众抢先体验。
信息来源：世界民报（据报整理）。
Taiwan Folk Songs Meet Jazz: Taipei Jazz Big Band Brings North America Tour to New Orleans in Late November
Taiwan's Ministry of Culture office in Houston (Taiwan Academy) and the New Orleans Jazz Museum (NOJM) have deepened their partnership to bring the Taipei Jazz Big Band to North America in late November: the band will perform in New Orleans — the holy land of jazz — at the 9th Improvisations Gala, and also appear at Asia Society Texas and Louisiana State University (LSU), offering overseas audiences an original jazz feast rooted in Taiwanese folk songs.
The Taipei Jazz Big Band is led by music director and conductor Lee Cheng-yu, a renowned saxophonist and scholar, and brings together Taiwan's top professional musicians active in both classical and jazz circles. The band was selected as a "Taiwan Top" performing arts team by the National Culture and Arts Foundation. The North America tour will present selections from the band's years-long "Taiwan Folk Song Jazz Commissioning Project," which invites composers and arrangers from home and abroad to reinterpret Taiwanese folk songs, nursery rhymes and folk music in big-band jazz form.
The program includes works by Teng Yu-hsien, the "father of Taiwanese folk songs" — "Four Seasons Red," "Moonlight Sorrow," "Longing for Spring Breeze" and "Rainy Night Flower" — as well as "Keelung Mountain Love," "Green High Mountain" and "Harbor City Night Rain." Familiar Taiwanese melodies, woven into the big band's rich brass textures, rhythmic drive and improvisational language, take on new life in contemporary jazz, letting music that carries generations of memory cross language and geography to converse with international audiences.
Notably, the Taiwan Academy in Houston and the New Orleans Jazz Museum have collaborated since 2022, regularly inviting Taiwanese jazz ensembles to the U.S.; NOJM director Greg Lambousy previously visited Taiwan at the Ministry of Culture's invitation, meeting many Taiwanese jazz musicians and arts organizations.
Before departure, the Taipei Jazz Big Band will perform its farewell concert "Feeling Jazz Taiwan" at Taiwan's National Theater & Concert Hall on October 12, presenting the full program of the U.S. tour for home audiences first.
Source: 世界民報 (World People News), as reported.
图片来源：图：新奥尔良Frenchmen街Spotted Cat音乐俱乐部内爵士乐队现场演出。摄影：Jeremy Thompson，CC BY 4.0，来源：Wikimedia Commons
