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Two Japanese jazz musicians travelled 7,000 miles to find a home in New Orleans

July 30, 2019 by: Stacey Leigh Bridewell

 

Haruka Kikuchi grew up in Tokyo: a big city girl with a background in classical music. Yoshitaka “Z2” Tsuji is from Osaka; his mother started teaching him piano when he was five years old. Haruka came to traditional jazz though a music teacher—Z2 says he was hit by a bolt of lightning when he first heard Oscar Peterson. Their studies and enthusiasm brought them both to New Orleans separately, but soon they found each other and have since created a lif...

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