Here are five videos featuring terrific Japanese bands: Here's Anita O'Day in 1963... Here are the Four Freshmen in 1964... Here are the Four Freshmen again... And more recently, here's champion ...

Directed by trumpeter Masaki Shinohara, a protégé of Wynton Marsalis, the Mad Hatters are recent winners of the East Japanese Jazz Competition. The students began their stay in Monterey County ...