My friend Rhonda Laurie is a swinging jazz singer (Sidewalk Café and more), music business instructor and underground promoter. Right now she's trying to put together a fundraising event to support ...

In May 2025 Japan welcomed an estimated 3.693 million visitors, marking a surge in global fascination with the country—up 125% (more than double!) compared to a decade ago. Many come for the exquisite ...

April is Jazz Appreciation Month. It’s also National Poetry Month. And the 2024 Unbound Book Festival wraps up Sunday. So it only seemed apropos to exchange emails with my friend Wayne Zade — a jazz ...

“Japanese-influenced listening bars” may be the latest, greatest trend in US bar culture, but their high-end sound systems and even more highfalutin aesthetic draw from a much more humble practice: ...

Eric Pye’s Tohoku saga comes to a close in Hakodate, and some final thoughts about his Jazz Kissa journey through Japan. I’ll admit to not being disappointed to leave Hirosaki, but it was sad leaving ...

There aren’t many musicians who have had a career quite as peculiar as Masayoshi Takanaka, the Japanese jazz-rock legend who ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan – For his whole life, Jay Clemons and music have been inseparable. Clemons, a chief warrant officer assigned to U.S. Army Japan, was a self-described “band geek” in middle and high ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A scene from "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie." (HANDOUT/SFC) When Mario A. Rodriguez of Wonky Power performance space/studio asked Woody ...