Publisher's Synopsis
When a Japanese jazzman crosses the world to perform, it's more than a concert - it's an offering. Masaki Hanawa, The First French Concert tells the story of the artist's arrival in France and the author's quiet, growing anticipation in Paris, then Lyon, and finally Saint-Étienne.
In the forests of Rochetaillée and Le Bessat, Masaki captures the voices of nature - the wind's breath, the rustling of leaves, the vibrating hush of stillness - to weave them into his next album. In Roche-la-Molière, he prepares for his very first concert on French soil. But this book is much more than a travelogue or musical diary.
It is the tale of a slow, luminous encounter - the birth of a bond shaped by music, one that suspends time and renders distance irrelevant. A meeting that shakes your inner compass and whispers that chance is merely a name we give to what was always meant to be.
A sensitive, resonant narrative in which every note beats like a heart, and every word hums like a promise.
