Have you ever had a project that started out small, but then the more you worked with it, the bigger and better it got? That’s kind of what happened with Yoko’s involvement in the upcoming film Midlife. Midlife is an independent film written and directed by Greg Travis. He is also the star, and has…
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This Sunday, June 30, at noon, the Yoko Miwa Trio will be playing at the Asian-fusion restaurant Theolonious Monkfish in Central Square, Cambridge. The restaurant’s slogan is “jazz for the palate,” but on weekends, they like to bring in some jazz for the ears as well. The tone of the menu at Thelonious Monkfish is…
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Previous episodes of Ken Burns’s JAZZ showed how jazz symbolized hope, relief, or escape for Americans during the Great Depression, but the seventh episode, “Dedicated to Chaos” shows jazz as a symbol of something else during the Second World War: defiance. This is one episode that is self-contained enough and good enough that I recommend…
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