RaveThe Los Angeles Review of Books...the Murakami cup runneth over with essays, travel books, newspaper column anthologies, and several meditations on music, especially jazz. Introducing this collection of one-on-one talks with an elder countryman whom he has long admired and now considers a friend, Murakami describes jazz and classical as the twin poles of his listening life since adolescence .... The sheer enthusiasm on display in Absolutely on Music, though, will inspire some of the discouraged to return to the concert hall ...a book that has its own way of dividing up time, space, and theme...take pleasure in following a favorite writer as he crosses the membranes, with eagerness and occasional awkwardness, between Japan and the West, between classical and jazz, between prose and conversation, and between the written word and the conducted score.
