Moanin'-------------
Then let's talk about the background music, which attracts me most when I was watching it. I had not known much about the music style-Jazz before, just like Kaoru in that anime who was just a piano amateur playing classical music. There must be something that made him to step into the Jazz world, and that was the song called "Moanin'" appearing in Episode 1 and running through the whole story:

Moanin' is a jazz album from Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers recorded in 1958. The genre is called Hard Bop and Art Blakey seems to be called the spiritual leader of it. What makes the tune lingers in the house is the piano, saxophone and drums interweaving altogether, alluring the audience to hear the real moaning of a tipsy person.

Looking back to the anime scenes, Sentaro is a proficient jazz drummer with abundant knowledge of how to perform jazz music, but he never shows his talent aloud, until the heroine Ritsuko speaks it to Kaoru in the basement of her family's CD store. I could infer from the background knowledge that at these age, jazz was like pop music nowadays but not as popular as that. It is more civilian than the classicals, which explains why Jazz Sentaro does not like the Classical Kaoru at first. Otherwise, Otherwise, the "Jazz Kaoru" who used to practice <Moanin'> with him should be absolutely his type, I swear with full of my joy(*´∀`).

The title of the songs sounds a little bit lustrous under some dirty imagination, but their encounter and friendship must be as pure as the seawater under the sunshine.

Someday My Prince Will Come-------------
This song was first played in episode 3 from Kaoru to Ritsuko, and then Kaoru expressed his love directly to her but did not get the answer immediately. The song under this name with lyrics is a popular song from Walt Disney's 1937 animated movie <Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs>. It was written by Larry Morey (lyrics) & Frank Churchill (music), and performed by Adriana Caselotti (Snow White's voice in the movie). It was also featured in the 1979 stage adaptation of the 1937 animated musical movie. Another version with jazz adaption was from Bill Evans, a famous jazz pianist from 50s to 80s. When I searched the picture of him, what really surprised me is that he really looks like Kaoru in that anime. I finally understand why Kaoru once pretended to be Bill Evans to amuse the others, because they both wear a black plastic frame and Kaoru only need to put up his bangs.

It is also very interesting to hear this song's adaption again in episode 7. I highly recommend everyone to watch episode 7 even that you are not interested in the whole story or the painting style, because the live of Kaoru and Sentaro in this period is just so fantastic that I cannot describe it with my words. This video lies in my favorite collection for a fairly long time and everytime I feel less energetic or need some refreshment, I will watch it as my infinite supplement of recreation. It was absolutely amazing to see these, the two boys on the stage playing so synchronized at such a quick tempo as a impromptu.. I must tell: a miracle or a strong magnet between them as two unconstrained souls.

Some day my prince will come
Some day we'll meet again
And away to his castle we'll go
To be happy forever I know
Some day when my dreams come true

Kids on the slope, wits for the grope.
It is a story of youth and music, love and freedom.
Everyone struggling all their lifes for what the happiness is,
maybe you can watch this anime to grope for your living direction.

At last, enjoy the anime, enjoy the music~