Jazz
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Gary Karr obituary
Four years after retiring in 2001, the double bassist Gary Karr, accompanied by Harmon Lewis, added a farewell…
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‘Anger compels me forward’: Drive My Car composer Eiko Ishibashi on evil, experimentation and exploding genre
Her score for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s opus helped it to Oscar glory. Now the Japanese musician has reunited with i…
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Blue Giant review – electrifying animation captures the ecstasy of live music
A sublime score from Hiromi Uehara drives this coming-of-age-anime, which brings three young jazz musicians to…
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Jazz rulebreaker Hiromi: ‘The piano is a plane that can take me anywhere’
As she arrives in the UK for London jazz festival, the Japanese pianist explains how she subverts expectations…
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One kissa is all it takes: Tokyo’s finest jazz haunts – in pictures
Jazz kissa are niche Japanese cafes stacked with whisky, vinyl and high-end audio systems. Philip Arneill capt…
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‘Society was volatile. That spirit was in our music’: how Japan created its own jazz
Postwar Japan embraced the music of its former enemy – and, powered by anti-establishment feeling, remade it. …