Jazz Articles about Kanji Ohta

Kanji Ohta & The Jazz Family with Jimmy Heath: Our Jazz Family

by Dan Bilawsky
September 26, 2013

The music that appears on Our Jazz Family was meant to serve as an aural commemorative keepsake-of-sorts. Pianists Kanji Ohta and Toshiko Kiryu celebrated their fifteenth wedding anniversary by putting on a concert with their family and friends in 2002. The concert was recorded and kept as a private memento at first, but ten years later, as the couple celebrated their silver anniversary, they decided to share what they had made a decade earlier. The music that ...