... was a huge growth in luxury liners crossing from the Pacific which gave Japanese the chance to explore new things in different countries, like the customs of America.6 They first began hearing jazz music on the liners when orchestras played music; at the majority of every stop they would go to in America, they would get off and find music stores and ... knowledge of the genre.13 For New Orleans to be very open the Japanese musician to perform in the place where it originated, says a lot about how open the jazz community is. The jazz community is so small, yet has great potential to make...

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