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John Coltrane playing shakuhachi on shinkansen with Alice Coltrane
Tracing a Giant Step: John Coltrane in Japan
 
This article, published in Point of Departure, commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of John Coltrane's historic tour to Japan. Through archival research in Japan and the United States, parsing through published and unpublished materials and through oral histories, I create a rich picture of tour.
 
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箏と２１世紀：八木美知依のグローバルな箏音楽
Echoes of Tradition: Yagi Michiyo’s Koto Music in a Globalized 21st Century
 
I presented a paper  at the Japanese Society for Sonic Arts' (JSSA) 27th Research Conference. Though the presentation was conducted in Japanese, the paper is written in both English and Japanese. 
 
My paper focused on how the physicality of the koto is suited for 21st century musical collaboration. 
Jazz musician Ornette Coleman at Prince Street
“Ornette at Prince Street”: A Glimpse from the Archives​
 
The genesis of this article was a wild goose chase that involved hunting for an article about the musician Ornette Coleman and his loft that had inspired the sax player Umezu Kazutoki  to go to New York in the early 70's. I searched through stacks of Swing Journals at the National Diet Library in air conditioned freezing hot Tokyo July. After translating the original article, I tracked down the author and interviewed him about his relationship with Ornette Coleman. 
 
The final article was co-written with Columbia Professor Brent Hayes Edwards.  

 

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