The Japanese do not have a lot of space ... He brought her to the attention of Verve’s Norman Granz, and off she went into the world of famous jazz artists. Akiyoshi was well known in the United ...

So who is Toshiko Akiyoshi, what is her background, and what is the scope of her impact in classical and jazz music? Akiyoshi was born in 1929 in Manchuria, China, to a Japanese family. She started ...

Blue Giant, an anime currently streaming on Netflix, is based on a long-running manga series of the same name, and it’s a totally sincere story of three young Japanese men who form a jazz group ...