BOMBAY BEBOP
孟買旋律
IT DON’T MEAN A THING
if it ain’t got that swing, as the Duke Ellington number goes. He’s totally right. Nothing is more truly toe-tappingly joyful than jazz: great jazz can fill and lift the soul like a plane in flight.
Round about the same time that Ellington was penning that song, jazz was arriving in the land of tigers and tiffin. Jazz came to Mumbai – or Bombay, as it was then – in the 1930s, and a whole new kind of cool was born. On p32, we chart the fortunes of jazz in this Art Deco-drenched city, from stately hotel bands to Bollywood swing to a resurgence in Brooklyn-inBombay dives.
Also in this issue, we’re prepping you for the Rugby World Cup with an insight into the rise of the sport in Japan – and the tale of how a town devastated by a tsunami is putting itself back together through the power of rugby (p40).
We travel to Bordeaux and discover a city of wine reborn (p46) – and tell the story of a few very lucky Marco Polo Club members who travelled with Cathay Pacific to the wineries of the region, before hopping onboard a pristine A350-900 for its maiden flight to Hong Kong (p64).
We meet the mastermind behind noties-allowed creative club Soho House, which has just opened its Hong Kong outpost (p58). And we find out what happens when a writer decides to travel around New Zealand in a battered old van for a month – with someone she met on the plane (p52).
After all, great travel – just like great jazz – is all about improvisation.
Have a great flight.正如殿堂級爵士樂手Duke Ellington的歌曲所說：「沒搖擺就沒意義」，他說得一點也沒錯。什麼都比不上爵士樂更能讓你開心地用腳尖點地，隨音樂搖動身軀，美好的爵士樂可以慰藉心靈，讓心情飛躍，如同展翅翱翔的飛機。大概在Ellington創作那首歌的時候，爵士樂也傳至老虎出沒、遍地奶茶和印式午餐的神奇國度。爵士樂於1930年代席捲孟買，帶動當地發展出「酷酷」的音樂類型。我們在第32頁探討爵士樂在這個裝飾藝術城市的發源、興衰與重生，它的起點是衣冠楚楚、一本正經的酒店樂隊，
然後成為波李活電影的搖擺配樂，再演變成「孟買版布魯克林」的爵士樂復興。
本期還會帶你一探在日本逐漸興起的欖球運動，以及一個受到海嘯重創的小城如何透過欖球重獲新生，讓你做好觀賞
2019年欖球世界盃的心理準備（第40頁）。我們還趁著前往法國酒鄉波爾多旅遊的機會，遊歷這個脫胎換骨的城市（第46頁），並且告訴你幾位非常幸運的馬可孛羅會會員的故事，他們有幸乘搭國泰航空的空中巴士A350- 900交付航班返港，同時也造訪了幾間波爾多的酒莊（第64頁）。另外，我們訪問了私人會所Soho House的創辦人，會所謝絕會員穿西裝和領帶，奉行休閒愜意主義，它最近在香港開設分部（第58頁）。最後，我們去看看一位決定駕著老舊客貨車暢遊新西蘭一個月的作（第家，而她的旅伴是在飛機上認識的新朋友52頁）。說到底，最難忘的旅行跟爵士樂一樣，都是臨時起意的即興創作。祝大家有個愉快的航程。