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Ned Rothenberg: Crossing the Pacific with bamboo flute in hand

Blowing bamboo: Ned Rothenberg learned to play the Japanese shakuhachi flute after first making his own instrument. | COURTESY OF NED ROTHENBERG

By Katherine Whatley
Contributing Writer

Nov 27, 2018

Composer and performer Ned Rothenberg has spent his career traversing different musical worlds.

He has worked extensively as both a composer and performer in the jazz and improvisation scenes, playing alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet and the shakuhachi, a Japanese bamboo flute.

Rothenberg, 62, has also trained and played with traditional performers and taken part in the improvisation, new music, jazz and hōgaku (traditional Japanese music) scenes.

Ned Rothenberg: Crossing the Pacific with bamboo flute in hand

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