My First Jazz Festival When we got married, in our apartment we had a poster of the Jozenji Street Jazz Festival poster on the wall. The very left one in the photo — a gray silhouette1 of a jazz man playing the piano against a white background with the title [...]
A Roady! (by Will) I always wanted to be a roady. A roady is a person who travels with a rock band and does all the physical1 work that’s necessary to put on a music show. They drive the busses and carry the equipment2, hang the lights and set up the stage. [...]
My Saxophone Life It has been exactly 16 years at the end of this month since I started learning tenor sax. The first encounter1 with the saxophone was when I went to a live performance by Sadao Watanabe when I was a high school student. I was fascinated2 by him [...]
The Answer to the New Year’s Riddle1 Happy New Year!! Here is the answer to2 the riddle on our New Year’s Card : What kind of room has no walls, no windows and no doors? a mushroom!! Did you get it right? Some cards [...]
At the End of the Year Now it is the night of New Year’s Eve1. Are you finally enjoying a relaxing time? I hope you are. (So I hope you are reading this after New Year’s Eve!) I’m finally relaxing in the living room with Will. In December, [...]
