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Ryu Bok-Sung

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Ryu Bok-sung was a teenager fiddling with his radio dial in rural South Korea when he chanced upon a strange new music he couldn't name, but it struck an immediate emotional chord. It was the mid-1950s, and Ryu had tuned to the Armed Forces Radio network popular with U.S. troops. When the boy heard the tune "Straight No Chaser," played by John Coltrane and Miles Davis, he reveled in its staccato-fire jazz saxophone riffs and melodious trumpet solos and knew his life was changed forever. "I've been obsessed with the music ever since I first heard it," says Ryu, now 72. "I didn't even know what the music was

Album

Ryu Bok-Sung Jazz Concert Live at Jazz Park

By Ryu Bok-Sung

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2009


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