Culture / Jazz September 27, 2023 The Japanese Jazz scene came into its own after the end of WWII. During the war, jazz was banned in Japan as its American roots made it the music of the enemy. After the end of the war, western forces occupied the country, and the jazz scene began to flourish. Japanese jazz ( Japanese: 日本のジャズ, Nihon no jazu) is jazz played by Japanese musicians, jazz connected to Japan or Japanese culture, or both. The term often refers to the history of jazz in Japan, which has the largest proportion of jazz fans in the world, according to some estimates. [1]
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Wiki Shouts Japanese Jazz Artists Horii Katsumi Project 474 listeners We don't have a wiki here yet. Miya 3,458 listeners Miya Official Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/miyamuzik Miya official Web Site: http://www.miyamuzik.com MiYA have just released their first album… Kazuki Katsuta 1,755 listeners We don't have a wiki here yet. Fumido The 25+ Best Japanese Jazz Bands | List of Jazz Bands/Artists From Japan Watchworthy Weird History Graveyard Shift Total Nerd Unscripted Lifestyle Music Sports #11Al Kooper on The Best Organists in Rock and Jazz Today #13Anthony Braxton on The Best Jazz Saxophonists in the World COLLECTION98 LISTS Sadao Watanabe is a Japanese saxophonist who plays alto (predominatly) as well as soprano and sopranino saxes and flute. His music has incorporated straight ahead jazz, fusion, bossa nova and classical music. Category:Japanese women jazz singers Pages in category "Japanese women jazz singers" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . A Aimer Junko Akimoto Naomi Akimoto Mina Aoe Maki Asakawa F Taeko Fukao H Hatsumi Shibata Peggy Hayama Mieko Hirota I Iri (artist) Kimiko Itoh J Juju (singer) K
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Akiko Yano (矢野 顕子, Yano Akiko, born Akiko Suzuki (鈴木 顕子, Suzuki Akiko); February 13, 1955) is a Japanese pop and jazz musician and singer born in Tokyo and raised in Aomori and later began her singing career in the mid-1970s. Category:Japanese jazz singers - Wikipedia Category:Japanese jazz singers Help Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jazz vocalists from Japan. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory. + Japanese women jazz singers (23 P) Pages in category "Japanese jazz singers" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. 赤崎真由美 | Mayumi Akasaki - Jazz Singer -Japanese female Jazz singer Jazz Singer Mayumi Akasaki 4th Album Something Now What's New? NEXT Live > 2023/12/26 Jazz Spot Swing 赤崎真由美 2023 LAST LIVE SPECIAL MOMENT with YOU!! Show begins at 19:30~ live charge ￥2,500 赤崎真由美（Vo.）近藤有輝（p） DUOライブ 2024/2/14 jazz inn LOVELY バレンタインライブ Show begins at 19:30~ 672 For Sale Videos Releases Showing 0 - 0 of 0 Explore music from Akiko. Shop for vinyl, CDs, and more from Akiko on Discogs.
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Taeko Fukao (深尾 多恵子 Fukao Taeko) is a Japanese jazz singer from Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Fukao is based in New York City, but travels extensively throughout the US and Japan performing in jazz festivals and jazz club venues. In between national and local appearances she has recorded two albums for Flat Nine Records. 30: 30. Kimiko Kasai (笠井 紀美子, Kasai Kimiko) (born December 15, 1945) is a retired Japanese jazz singer. Biography Kimiko was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1945. She first became interested in jazz at the age of 13 after hearing Chris Connor's song "All About Ronnie" on the radio. At age 16 she moved to Tokyo and started performing in jazz clubs.
Keiko Matsui (松居 慶子, Matsui Keiko, born 26 July 1961, as Keiko Doi) is a Japanese keyboardist and composer, specializing in smooth jazz and New-age music . Biography Matsui at an autograph signing, 2006 Keiko Matsui was born in Tokyo, Japan. Her mother, Emiko, took her to her first piano lesson in the June following her fifth birthday. Toshiko Akiyoshi is a Japanese jazz composer/arranger, bandleader and pianist. She has received 14 Grammy nominations, and she was the first woman to win the Best Arranger and Composer awards in Down Beat magazine's Readers Poll. In 1984, she was the subject of a documentary film titled Jazz Is My Native Language.
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