# Takuya Nakamura's jazz-jungle fusion & a new book of letters between composer Larry Sitsky and Gwen Harwood

An episode of [The Music Show](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/156556864), 25 Sep 2026, 55 min.

Audio: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/or/Z/od.mp3

Some might think that jazz and electronic music don't have much in common, but Japanese DJ and trumpeter Takuya Nakamura has proven all that wrong. Growing up in 1980s Tokyo, he moved to the United States in 1990 to study under the legendary jazz composer George Russell, and went on to bring this expertise to the New York jungle electronic scene. He now performs live DJ sets of jungle, trip hop, dub, and all sorts of experimental electronic music with trumpet in hand. Larry Sitsky may be one of Australia's most important living composers, and he's certainly the most commissioned. One of his most important creative relationships over his long career was with poet Gwen Harwood, who wrote many of the libretti for his operas. A new book filled with the substantial thirty-year correspondence between the two has just been released. Ann-Marie Priest is a longtime scholar of Gwen Harwood's work, and is the editor of the book, Fiery Tales: The Correspondence of Gwen Harwood and Larry Sitsky Takuya Nakamura is performing as part of Move My Way festival, on October 3 in Eora Sydney, and October 4 in Naarm Melbourne. His forthcoming album -- Shape The Future is out November 12. Fiery Tales: The Correspondence of Gwen Harwood and Larry Sitsky is out now via Monash University Publishing. Music heard in this program: Title: Jungle JungleArtist: Takuya NakamuraComposer: Takuya NakamuraAlbum: Mysteries of the Cosmos Title: The Banks of the Moldau, Act1 Sc3Artist: Raymond Myers (Rabbi Judah Loew), The Australian Opera Chorus, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon Gee (cond.), Barrie Kosky (dir.)Composer: Larry Sitsky, Gwen Harwood (libretto)Album: The GolemLabel: ABC Classics Title: EpilogueArtist: Gerald English (tenor) as Lenz, Isabel Veale (soprano), Lyall Beven (baritone), James Christiansen (baritone), Marilyn Richardson (soprano), The Corinthian Singers, Adelaide Symphony OrchestraComposer: Larry Sitsky, Gwen Harwood (libretto)Album: LenzLabel: ABC Classics Title: Broken Jazz feat. Tim ReaperArtist: Takuya NakamuraComposer: Takuya NakamuraAlbum: Shape the Future Title: Giant StepsArtist: John Coltrane (tenor sax), Tommy Flanagan (piano), Wynton Kelly (piano), Art Taylor (drums), Paul CHambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums)Composer: John ColtraneAlbum: Giant StepsLabel: Atlantic 1311 The Music Show is made on Gadigal, Gundungurra, and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country Technical production by Tegan Nicholls

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