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A quick tour around YokoMiwa.com
Hi friends! Many of you are longtime followers of Yoko Miwa, but for those who are newer to her music, we’d thought we’d take you on a quick tour of the website so you can see all it has to offer. You can see all the menu options along the top of the page. The…
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Remembering Hugh Masekela
South African trumpeter, singer, composer, bandleader and activist Hugh Masekela passed away on Jan. 22 at the age of 78. He left an indelible mark on the world of music. I’ve had several encounters with Hugh Masekela over the course of my life. The first was in 1993, when I saw him play at the…
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For his birthday … my Jimmy Cobb story
Hi folks, this is Jason again, the webmaster of YokoMiwa.com. Drummer Jimmy Cobb turns 89 on January 20. To mark this occasion, I thought I’d tell my Jimmy Cobb story. In 1991 I moved to Japan as a Rotary exchange student. I lived in Furukawa (now Osaki) a city in the northern Japanese prefecture of…
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