Results for "Masayoki Takayanagi"

Istanbul Jazz: So Close to the Music, So Far From New York

by Arthur R George
September 25, 2019

That any musician, old cat, young lion, or apprentice anywhere, endeavors in jazz is amazing enough, given the elusiveness of “success." That is even more true in Istanbul, Turkey: not a conventional jazz capitol, far from the African-American roots of jazz, and even beyond the music's major continental domiciles. Yet the tilting cobblestoned streets of the ...