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

Scholarspeak postponed, a blast of word music opens Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan (Duke University Press). It’s nighttime in Yokohama and E. Taylor Atkins riffs loose and free on Mix ...

Over and over, I came across Ryo Fukui, the godfather of Japanese jazz piano (or at least the most famous jazz pianist outside Japan). I ordered a copy of Scenery, his 1976 debut, and from the cover ...

With this year's International Jazz Day concert taking place in Osaka, an East Asian historian (a musician himself) describes how the music came across the Pacific — and how it took off after that.

With this year's International Jazz Day concert taking place in Osaka, an East Asian historian (a musician himself) describes how the music came across the Pacific — and how it took off after that.

It’s maybe 10 guys.” While he’s been a fan of the Jazz for more than two decades, Nishio first came to visit Utah roughly eight years ago on assignment with a Japanese media outlet.

Learn taiko from TaikoArts Midwest and meet Tiffany Tamaribuchi, an O-Daiko player. Taiko drumming is an art form that balances music, dance, and athletics into a dynamic demonstration of Japanese ...

At Jazz Fest on Saturday, May 3, 2014, which shall be referred to here on out as "Springsteen Saturday," we spotted many men around the Fair Grounds who looked like ...

March 17, 2015 Jazz gained mainstream popularity during a volatile period of racial segregation and gender inequality in the decades that followed its late 19 th century inception. Against adverse ...

A variety of Japanese and Japanese American arts -- including Butoh and jazz, as well as anime -- will be celebrated during ‘JapanOC,’ a seven-month festival presented by Carnegie Hall, the ...