The composer and saxophonist Yasuaki Shimizu is at home in free jazz ... the album that broke him out of straight jazz and rock, to his electro-world albums in the late ’80s with Martin ...

When the album written to memorialize your mother becomes your calling card, where do you turn for your second act? For Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner, it involved diving deeper into herself to ...

Japanese trumpeter and composer NATSUKI TAMURA is internationally recognized for a unique musical vocabulary that blends extended techniques with jazz lyricism. This unpredictable virtuoso’s seemingly ...

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