Asia

Jazz in Asia

Joseph Paice August 10, 2020

Saxophonist and flautist Sadao Watanabe (1933) has been a figurehead for Japanese jazz for around seven decades. He was born...

Joseph Paice July 24, 2020

Pianist Bobby Enriquez (1943-1996) became known to international audiences through his work with Richie Cole and through a series of...

Joseph Paice July 10, 2020

Bangladeshi percussionist Badal Roy (born 1945) has worked with many of the leading names in modern jazz since arriving in...

Joseph Paice June 26, 2020

Japanese trumpeter Fumio Nanri (1910-1975) was the first jazz musician from Japan to build an international reputation. He was born...

Joseph Paice June 10, 2020

Born in Surabaya, East Java, Bubi Chen (1938-2012) was an important figure in the development of jazz in Indonesia. Born...

Joseph Paice June 5, 2020

Trumpeter Muvaffak 'Maffy' Falay (born 1930) grew up in the Aegean town of Kuşadası, where a statue of him was...

Joseph Paice May 26, 2020

Amancio D'Silva (1936-1996) was born in Bombay to Goan parents. Keen to learn the guitar after hearing jazz on the...

Joseph Paice May 11, 2020

Oleg Lundstrem (1916-2005) ran the earliest (and longest lived) big band in Russia. He was born in Chita in Eastern...

Joseph Paice May 10, 2020

Born in Dairen, Manchuria, Toshiko Akiyoshi (born 1929) moved with her family to Japan in 1946. By the end of...

Joseph Paice May 9, 2020

Born in St Petersburg in 1961, Russian saxophonist Igor Butman studied clarinet at the Rimsky-Korsakov School of Music, where he...