The Brothers Revolutionizing Japanese Jazz
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- The shamisen is classic Japanese instrument best known for creating the sweet sounds in Kabuki Theatre. With a history dating back centuries, the shamisen has been a pivotal part of many ancient musical genres. But today, in the hands of the Yoshida Brothers, it’s getting a modern twist. After picking up the instrument at age five, brothers Ryoichiro and Kenichi fell in love with the quick tempo required to play Tsagaru-jamisen, a Japanese genre of shamisen music. Today, they meld the ancient art and precision of playing shamisen with new, popular sounds, creating their own brand of music and finding fans around the world.
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This was amazing to see.
I have been learning from the yoshida brothers as their apprentice for the last 5 years and I can tell you that it has been an amazing experience!!
No comments?!
Give Lens some love yall :(
You play really amazing as well! Love your vids!
I love your eggplant
I saw the title and I knew it's about Yoshida Brothers! They're awesome! I've been a fan for years.
Same I clicked the video to learn more about them because I love their music already
Me too!
Same here!🙋🙋
Same
Ikr! 😲😲😲
"Wii would like to play"
I remember seeing that commercial and I knew I had to find the rest of their music. They are phenomenal.
👍
I never heard of Japanese Jazz before. This is awesome.
Same.
Hi again
I'm not sure whether they're actually Japanese or even Jazz, but try Bohemianvoodoo
@@ggor06 hi :)
It's not actually Jazz, but the concept(Tsugaru style shamisen) is close to something like Jazz in concept.
I remember when I first heard the Yoshida Brothers- it was when I first saw those Nintendo Wii Commercials, two men in suits, show up at a stranger’s door, saying “Wii would like to play” all while “Kodo (Inside the Sun Remix)” play. The last time the Nintendo Wii/Yoshida Bros. Song played was for the commercial for “Super Smash Bros. Brawl”
And I still have the song on iTunes 🙂
My grandma got their autographs when they visited Hawaii, she loved them so much ❤️
The Yoshida Brothers are amazing. Been following them for years.
Love Yoshida brothers. It's funny how some of their older videos are tittled "shamisen rock", and here they call it jazz.
I saw them a few years ago at a convention and have been listening ever since. They took the audience’s breath away. Their music is so precise and beautiful while being simultaneously so playful and fun.
I've been listening to the Yoshida Brothers for years and never knew their background. Thanks for the video!
I'm so glad you featured them! I've been listening to them for years.
ayyyyy the Yoshida Brothers!! Been listening to their music for years! Glad to see Great Big Story do a video on them!! 😄😄
👍
The Yoshida brothers are awesome. Have been listening their music from time to time and it's always very energetic, they go all out on their performances.
I’ve loved their music for a long time. Glad to see them getting a whole focus video.
I'm so happy to see them on this channel
Sweet, love Yoshida brothers, I have a couple of their albums.
AHHHHHH its the Yoshida Brothers! Cant believe you guys are covering them thats great!!
American Jazz, Bluegrass and Folk all sound very cool on a shamisen...by accomplished musicians of course. Very cool video. *_GBS always delivers._* 👍
There are Japanese people who play American-style Jazz. This is nothing like jazz, they only called it "jazz" because it has improvisational elements, which is not really enough to sound like jazz
+David Boucard Nothing like Jazz? 😂 I guess you've never heard old school *_free style_* jazz. Sounds like a style of classic American jazz on a shamisen to me.
@@tosht2515 - If you're talking about the kind of jazz played by Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, etc then I don't hear it. American jazz is rooted in blues/gospel. This Japanese music doesn't share those roots.
Improvisation is an element of jazz but it's not a synonym for jazz.
+David Boucard Not Joplin or Satchmo which is ragtime, swing, Dixieland, big band, blues, popular Jazz, etc. I specifically mentioned free style. Search UA-cam for "Ornette Coleman free jazz" and click on any of the top videos.
Ahhh, so that's the one instrument I heard in some of Naruto's soundtracks. RESPECT + for another great instrument added to my favorites, and to the Yoshida brothers.
Yes ost's when naruto was still a kid . Wonderful .
BELIEVE IT! 👍
I believe toshio matsuda was responsible for the naruto soundtrack...
I so love their music even before I watch this
YOSHIDA BROTHERS! Been listening for at least 5 years :)
been a fan for maaaaany years.
Japan is such a beautiful country
That is wicked sick, man!
(Seriously, I like it!)
Been listening to them years ago. I love their song Nikata.
Storm
So the Japanese version of 2CELLOS?
Pretty much
Or the Japanese version of Ganesh & Kumaresh.
2 Cellos? Kubo and the 2 Strings.
i immediately thought of the Thunderstruck cover
Here's the thing. Japanese Jazz is known to have certain characters which featured in Tsugaru-Shamisen. Quick tempo, phantasmatical theme which transcends reality of period and space, sounds so nostalgic yet it's not real.
Got to see them once in LA, love the guys. Not musical at all, but they made me want to buy a shamisen.
Man! i love them....I was unaware of them a year back...
They are such amazing musicians, with incredible songs.
Ive been playing yoshida brothers for years....and this is my first time seeing their faces
Narrator please: It's pronounced Sha MI Sen. Not "shamasen". It's brutal every time it's repeated.
Narrator, the brothers say it properly throughout the video, please try to mimic proper pronouciation in the future.
it's accent and i doubt u guys could said it like us
1) That is not an accent. It's a mispronunciation.
2) Yes we can say it like "us". Japanese has been romanized.
3) You just defended a guy and then proceeded to gatekeep him in the same sentence. Get your shit together Mako.
Straight up.
Made me cringe each time he said it. Just about as bad as people pronuncing Hiroshima, as HUH-ROEshuhMA.
Gross.
@@ezewong290 maybe Mako should be pronounced as Maaco? 😅😅
Wow awesome jam I love it. 👌💞
Thank you wii commercials for making a fan of these brothers and shamisen music.
They are really gifted 😊
Wow, sure enjoyable music good job. such a special instrument
I had an inkling they would feature the yoshida brothers in this one,their song 'morricone' is a fave of mine :3
Love them ❤️ they're on Spotify too!
I love The Yoshida Brothers!!
Yoshida Brothers!!! Woooohhh!!!
great to see Japanese perserving their culture (even if it originated from China) the fact that their descendants are able to pass down this ancient is truly admirable.
Love these guys
this is amazing!
So COOL I WOULD LOVE TO PLAY LIKE THAT!
This reminds me of kubo & two strings hehee 😉😂
why
I Really Love Japanese Jazz Bands! :-D
Remember the old Nintendo Wii commercial where 2 Asian guys came at the door saying “We’d like to play”? That’s their music played in the commercial
I remember this sound from the first wii's comercial: We would like to play.
I knew it! The yoshida brothers.
*SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT*
LOL, I see what you did there
Fantastic 😮😮😮
hey yeah!❤️ yoshida spell yoshid for UA-cam.
Shamisen shredding!
Omg i didnt think u would make a vid abt them
Yes 👌🏻😍
Interesting. I've quite read dozens of books from Japan but never encountered Japanese jazz.
Amazing
I love the yoshidas!
Yoshida brothers!
Japan Rocks 👍👏
Yassss the yoshida brothers
Uno de los grandes artistas del Japón que no merecen el olvido
Yoshida Brothers and the Two Strings
Such brilliant material; akin to a novel that captivated me with its depth. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Leo Flint
Even though im not japanese... I still want to play that instrument 😅
These are my boys! Do you hear me?!!!!!!!!!!!!
For a great colab between shamisen, classic style n modern acoustic. I recommend MV: Hanabi by Miyavi , Jin Oki & Hiromitsu
I remember them from an older Nintendo commercial.
If you love jazz/ groovy jam with shamisen, here's a good one:
Kaori Kobayashi - Driver's meeting
Tokyo Groove Jyoshi - What is Hip?
Sugoi!!
I have their album
Classic instrument shamisen still rocks!
btw accordion does equally well, check out anything by CHARAN-PO-RANTAN.
I was lucky enough to see them about 10 years or so ago... I would not consider them jazz at all, though. I think their albums are usually found in the pop or traditional sections here in Japan.
2Cellos VS Yoshida brothers
NOW!!!
*WAGAKKI BAND - HOMURA*
At 0:33 the narrator calls the shamisen a "classic Japanese guitar". Wouldn't it be much more apt to say that it's a Japanese banjo?
You haven't see Wagakki Band who plays rock 🤘🏻
I have but only one from a rhythm game called osu. The song was Tengaku.
arigatou for introducing wagakki band. their genre is so my favorite. now i'm a fan :)
@@emwinzy Glad to :)
So that's why they went quiet on their channel so much years ago. They abandoned their channel to make new music, without having to stressfully upload and edit it.
Well shit, dudes are going hard at it
Y A L I K E J A Z Z
Can you do the ErHu next pls!!
is that the same instrument from Kubo and the two strings?
Congrations to these two(^○^) They really deserved this.
YOSHIDA KYOUDAI!!!!
was this the instrument in Kubo and two strings?
Yes
And literally no one mentioned kubo....
"Not quite my tempo"
I know these brothers. They've played with Monkey Majik as well
I didnt understand that in a which way they call/mean this jazz genre?
0:37 DJENT right there
*watches mashiro no oto*
youtube :
Kubo and the Two Strings.
...but these guys have three.
三味線(shamisen)も英語だとシャームスン(ʃɑːmsn)になってしまうのか
三味線をグーグル翻訳で日本式ローマ字のとおり発音してたのはラテン語、イタリア語、フィンランド語、スウェーデン語、アラビア語など少数だった
16 people could not get tickets...
what is Shaaarmasen?
Kubo?
0:28 Oh god he looks like Joji...
Talk about a misleading title...
Wow... an episode about Japanese musicians, presented by a Korean car brand.
*BuT DoEz iT Dj0NT?!?*