How Japan created its own jazz
Featured photo: Pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in 1958. She is still active today at the age of 92. Photograph: Everett Collection Historical/Alamy Postwar Japan embraced the music of its former enemy – and, powered by anti-establishment feeling, remade it. As they find a new global audience, the country’s jazz innovators explain what drove them The story of Japanese jazz is about music and a movement, but also a nation’s state of mind […]
