Even if the name isn’t familiar, you might know the sound of the shakuhachi. It’s a traditional Japanese flute with a distinct, airy sound quality. Shawn Head is a local shakuhachi performer who ...

A while back, Stan Richardson was performing traditional Japanese shakuhachi music for an audience of museum patrons when he received one of the greatest compliments of his life. “Someone in the ...

A detail from the cover of Minoru Muraoka's collaboration with Herbie Mann, Gagaku and Beyond. It took some time to count the stamps on my passports, but it turns out I've averaged one trip to Japan ...

MINATO-KU, TOKYO, JAPAN, May 24, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- The arrangements of Yamaya’s works are popularly known as "Wamono" (和モノ) and are frequently ...

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KINGSTON — Music from around the world is a mouse click away. For musician Jamie Orfanella, world music is in between his fingertips. Orfanella spent 10 years learning the art of the Japanese ...

Composer and Bates music professor Hiroya Miura already had plenty on his plate when a music festival in the Czech Republic made him, as they say, an offer he couldn’t refuse. In addition to teaching ...

The first non-Japanese to attain the rank of Grand Master of the shakuhachi bamboo flute, Riley Lee has been mesmerizing audiences with his spellbinding playing for decades. Teaming with Grammy ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sony Music Labels today released a music video in support of “Shakuhachi Classic,” the second album by all-female traditional instrumental ensemble Bamboo Flute Orchestra. The ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Five of today's leading shakuhachi masters join forces as the traditional ...