From a Japanese bamboo flute that is harvested and then cured to an unusual fretless zither and a blue Fender Strat, three performers tell the stories of the instruments they cherish A central figure ...

You have probably heard this sound before. This is the first thing that shakuhachi player Kojiro Umezaki tells people who aren’t familiar with his instrument. Maybe you’ve heard the vertical bamboo ...

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 ...

Kominato Akihisa is a ground-breaking virtuoso on the shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese bamboo flute. For Kominato, the appeal of the shakuhachi lies in its resemblance to the human voice. It is this ...

Students have the opportunity to learn to play the Japanese bamboo flute from visiting fellow Riley Lee, the first non-Japanese to attain the rank of shakuhachi grand master. Read more. In a rehearsal ...

In a rehearsal room in the Woolworth Center of Musical Studies, students are blowing into their instruments, flicking hands over finger holes, shaking heads, and dipping chins up and down to create ...

Since debuting in 2016, Yoshimi Tsujimoto has been promoting shakuhachi to a global audience through her popular YouTube channel, performing flute covers of famous songs. Tsujimoto’s online fame has ...

How a few side gigs with his former band led to a post-rock career as an arts entrepreneur and tea shop owner. Ritchie says, “I was playing with Violent Femmes and we toured Australia a lot and came ...

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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 ...