Eric Pye’s Tohoku saga comes to a close in Hakodate, and some final thoughts about his Jazz Kissa journey through Japan. I’ll ...

Among the highlights were members of Waseda University’s Jazz Club marching through Dobuita - known as ... Alex Wilson covers ...

The documentary contains footage of live performances at the cafe by the late great jazz drummer Elvin Jones and leading Japanese artists, including saxophonists Sadao Watanabe and Akira Sakata.

The evening will include food, drink, and a performance by up-and-coming jazz drummer Tomohiro Mori’s trio—all leading up to a classic Japanese movie about dueling jazz drummers, The Stormy Man.

Jun Seba (Japanese: 瀬葉 淳, Hepburn: Seba Jun, February 7, 1974 – February 26, 2010), better known by his stage name Nujabes (ヌジャベス, Nujabesu), was a Japanese record producer, audio engineer, DJ, ...

Japanese trumpeter and composer NATSUKI TAMURAsplits his active performing career between his homelandand the United States. Internationally recognized for hisability to blend a unique vocabulary of ...

The trio’s members, Shinji Hashimoto (guitarist), Mariko Kajiwara (vocalist) and Junichiro Ohkuchi (pianist) play in jazz festivals across Japan. They come to Depauw to give students the opportunity ...

In 1977, so-called crossover jazz was all the rage, with artists such as Bob James and Earl Klugh earning a huge following in the US and abroad. Influential Japanese producer Shigeyuki Kawashima saw ...

When the album written to memorialize your mother becomes your calling card, where do you turn for your second act? For Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner, it involved diving deeper into herself to ...

Tohoku, which is located in the northern region of the Japanese island of Honshu is a treasure trove of Jazz Kissas. Eric Pye has some suggestions. When I travel to Japan, two destinations are givens.