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Yu Ooka, a jazz guitarist and shamisen player who moved to the United States in 2004

"We have to go to the real thing." Jazz guitarist Yu Ooka performed at the pregame for the Dodge…

Keiko Fukuda • Oct. 15, 2024

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Keeping the Beat: The Story of Legendary Drummer Paul Togawa

As part of my ongoing series on Japanese American jazz musicians, I now turn to the fascinating sto…

Jonathan van Harmelen • Oct. 31, 2023

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On Nikkei

Episode 32: "The Development of San Pedro Brotherhood" - On the way to the coastline of Japan ①

From Americamura in Shima City, Mie Prefecture Since the year before last, I have been traveling by…

Ryusuke Kawai • July 14, 2023

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Paul Higaki – The One Who Made It Big

On August 2, 1949, legendary Nisei composer and musician Takeshi “Tak” Shindo penned an article f…

Jonathan van Harmelen • June 8, 2023

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Big Band Music is My Jam

When people ask me what my favorite kind of music is, I often see a shocked look on their faces whe…

Kaiden Paul Uyeda • May 22, 2023

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Kamisama of the Club — Jazz Player James Araki and Bebop in Japan

If there was a sound that defined United States history, it would be jazz. As Amiri Baraka stated i…

Jonathan van Harmelen • Sept. 13, 2022

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Ruth Sato Reinhardt: From Chorus Girl to Jazz Momma - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> After 1940, Ruth Sato’s life was transformed, and she shifted her career from sho…

Greg Robinson • Jan. 11, 2022

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Fluent in Jazz—DJ Yuki Maguire celebrates music that crosses borders

“Hello. Konnichiwa. Bon Jour. Ni Hao. Gutentag. Buenas Dias. Welcome to Yuki Maguire’s Internationa…

Bruce Rutledge • Nov. 5, 2019

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Semi-Immersion

ON THURSDAY NIGHT, Nov. 16, 2017, I had a date with my cousin, Diane, to see Kuniko Fukushima sin…

David Yamaguchi • Feb. 7, 2018

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Ken Ychicawa: Jazz, music and consciousness

For the painter Henri Matisse, the greatest exponent of Fauvism, a movement that has been defined a…

Javier García Wong-Kit • June 12, 2017

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