The Suzuki Method

is pretty similar to the Chuck Berry method; Damo Suzuki comes to a town, and the promoter has a band of local musicians set to back him up...except he's not doing Chuck Berry songs (or songs by Can, for that matter), he's doing all improvisations.
Here are clips of some recent performances:



DAMO SUZUKI feat. CHATEAU LAUT - LIVE @ AUSLAND, BERLIN, 04/30/10



REnDeR PLaNT & Damo Suzuki
Part of a three-day Experimental Music Festival at the Luminaire in Kilburn in May 2010



Damo Suzuki and The Vultures, The Luminaire, 05/03/10



Damo Suzuki and the Dominic Lash Quatertet, The Luminaire, 05/03/10
Ricardo Tejero (sax), Javier Carmona (drums), Dominic Lash (bass), and Rodrigo Montoya (Japanese shamisen), perform at the Luminaire in the vicinity of Kilburn.

And sometimes the Chuck Berry method works really well:

SNO

Shoji Hiromits (analog synthesizer + tape)
Numa Naoya (drums)
Oshima Teruyuki (guitar + pc.effects)

06/19/09

"Pretty harsh sound, right?" "Calm down, Grandma."

One of the best ways to start a gig...

The deathful love story of a free jazz saxophonist, Kaoru Abe (1949-1978) and a novelist, his wife, Izumi Suzuki (1949-1986). A film "Endless Waltz" was produced by Koji Wakamtsu Production in 1995.

Clank and Twang

Kuknacke (ククナッケ) on guitar and Hot Troche (ツポールヌ) on vocals at Guitaristival, Roppongi SuperDeluxe, Tokyo, 06/28/09.

the riff from "Bunnies" by electric eels at 1:27...



Seiichi Yamamoto (山本 精一) and Makino Takuma (牧野琢磨) duet at Guitaristival at Roppongi SuperDeluxe, Tokyo, 06/28/09.

Both clips courtesy of blackpostcards.

"Cherokee"?

Otomo Yoshihide New Jazz Orchestra @ North Sea Jazz Fest, Rotterdam, 07/12/09

Mats Gustafsson, Axel Dörner, Cor Fuhler, Mizutani Hiroaki, Yoshigaki Yashuhira

Video by Shuffleboil

(I used this border to complement Axel Dörner's swell suit...)



Video by 010zico

Not particularly American at all...

加藤啓／浦邊雅祥パフォーマンス

Kei Kato performance an accordion of monster featuring Masayoshi Urabe
March 2009

"Do you think Yoko will leave Paul?"

Plastic Ono Band, London, 06/14/09

(SuzySecret took the video by cellphone.)

Opera Southern Cross

Opera Southern Cross at Super Deluxe, Tokyo, September 25th 2007.
Katsuaki Iida (poetry reading)
Taku Sugimoto (photo slide, music composition)
Taku Unami (computer) (JP)
Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board)

http://www.japanimprov.com/schedule/cgi/schedule.cgi?&keyword=outsidejapan