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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Sean Smith</title>
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		<title>Jazz acts must embrace some new standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drop by your local jazz club and on an average night there&#8217;s a fair chance the band will at some point play a rendition of &#8220;Autumn Leaves,&#8221; &#8220;My Favorite Things&#8221; or &#8221; &#8216;Round Midnight&#8221; &#8212; or maybe all three. You might hear an inspired rendition of a time-honored classic, but more likely you&#8217;ll have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miho Hazama starts a journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s believed that time spent living abroad can be a journey of self-discovery, and for Miho Hazama that has certainly been the case. Moving to New York to study for a master&#8217;s degree in jazz composition at the Manhattan School of Music (MSM) was an experience that led to the recording of her debut, &#8220;Journey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building off that four-letter word — &#8216;jazz&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something I&#8217;ve noticed recently when browsing the jazz sections of record shops is the proliferation of sub-genres among the Japanese artists. Just hearing the names is enough to get a fan excited about the apparent explosion of creativity. For example, postrock jazz acts such as Fox Capture Plan or Mouse On The Keys are clearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jazz Collective &#8220;Jazz Collective&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been to any jazz or funk gigs in the Kanto area over the last couple of years, there&#8217;s a good chance you may have seen trombonist Takao Hirose up on stage. In addition to featuring in the horn section for other acts and playing on various recording sessions, Hirose also heads his own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For jazz fans in Japan, 2012 marked the arrival of a few new divas and some great gigs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a genre that critics and musicians have been declaring dead for more than half a century, each year nevertheless sees new artists dipping their toes in the vast ocean that is jazz. Some decide to re-trace and re-interpret well-established routes, others choose to follow the prevailing winds of fashion, while a daring few head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Independent route pays off for jazz act Indigo Jam Unit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whichever way you look at it, there&#8217;s something a little bit different about Indigo Jam Unit. The Osaka-based band has succeeded on its own terms, eschewing the Tokyo club-jazz crowd, but at the same time carving out their own little niche within the scene. They&#8217;ve adopted a slightly different approach to their career to date, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jazzing up the industrial city</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On one side you have Montreux, a Swiss resort town on the banks of Lake Geneva that has seen many famous residents over the years, and which has been immortalized in the lyrics of the Deep Purple song &#8220;Smoke On The Water.&#8221; On the other you have a Japanese city in the heart of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ozone plugs hole left by Coleman at Tokyo Jazz Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Improvisation has long been a key part of the jazz musician&#8217;s repertoire, and the organizers of last weekend&#8217;s Tokyo Jazz Festival (TJF) found themselves having to do some of their own improvising at the eleventh hour when news came through that headline act Ornette Coleman was unable to fly due to poor health. In his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soil &amp; &#8220;Pimp&#8221; Sessions, Jaga Jazzist and Bruut! challenge jazz&#8217;s conservative image</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/09/06/music/soil-pimp-sessions-jaga-jazzist-and-bruut-challenge-jazzs-conservative-image/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=soil-pimp-sessions-jaga-jazzist-and-bruut-challenge-jazzs-conservative-image</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grammy Award-winning bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding recently told the Los Angeles Times that one of the problems in bringing jazz to a wider audience was essentially one of image. Unlike with pop music, where Auto-Tune can airbrush out any vocal shortcomings and computers can tweak instrumental performances, jazz artists spend many years learning their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethnic Minority &#8220;Startin&#8217; &#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been near Shibuya Station in Tokyo at night in the past 12 months, you may well have encountered three young guys playing up a storm to passers-by, many of whom have stopped to listen, cheer and/or dance. This trio goes by the name of Ethnic Minority, and is led by saxophonist Hiroyuki Yokota. [...]]]></description>
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