American jazz artists became popular again in Japan in the 1950s and 1960s, but very few people could afford the prices of the records. That reality made the jazz kissa the only place that the average ...

CD1: Maiden Voyage; Sugar; So What; Sophisticated Lady; Footprints; Work Song; What a Wonderful World. CD2: Mr. PC; Body and Soul; Cold Duck Time; Watermelon Man ...

The virtuoso pianist Hiromi -- full name: Hiromi Uehara -- made her debut on BBC's "Later … With Jools Holland" on Tuesday (Oct. 24) as the first-ever Japanese jazz musician to perform on the ...

Body & Soul, in Japan's capital Tokyo, is celebrating 50 years of hosting jazz greats including Art Blakey, Terumasa Hino and Makoto Ozone A trailblazer of the modern jazz club scene in Japan ...

Though the jazz kissa may be the genesis of the above-mentioned trend, it’s gradually fading away in Japan due to an aging clientele, increasing business costs, shifts in popular music and the ...

Tal Mashach and Ofri Nehemya – performed at Japan’s first live jazz show in almost three years. The GTO Trio has accompanied some of the world’s greatest jazz artists, such as Chick Corea ...

This article highlights 20 influential jazz artists from the 1920s ... Sweet as Apple Cider” and “Japanese Sandman,” highly influential. His contributions to the development of jazz cornet ...