Jazz Musicians and Their Love for Japan article by Atzko Kohashi, published on August 6, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more In ...

There’s a well-established tradition of Japanese jazz artists, but there does not seem to be, at least in the Western world, as strong a tradition of Chinese jazz artists.

Leading the country's hard bop craze in the 1960s, Japanese jazz drummer Hideo Shiraki sadly didn't live long enough to enjoy ...

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For example, Japanese jazz artists have their conception and adaption of jazz music into their own tradition, which is always refreshing to listen to.

Additional topics of discussion include Japanese jazz artists (including Ryo Fukui, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto and Isao Suzuki), and why classical music is still so popular when interest has fallen off in many ...

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‘Music Behind Barbed Wires’ free concert in S.F. Japanese American musicians who kept playing after they forced into internment camps.

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Japan was soon a country infatuated with the genre, but jazz artists at the time rarely toured in Japan, and jazz records were very expensive since they had to be imported from the States.