A detail from the cover of Minoru Muraoka's collaboration with Herbie Mann, Gagaku and Beyond. It took some time to count the stamps on my passports, but it turns out I've averaged one trip to Japan ...

Even if the name isn’t familiar, you might know the sound of the shakuhachi. It’s a traditional Japanese flute with a distinct, airy sound quality. Shawn Head is a local shakuhachi performer who ...

A failed fashion designer has admitted launching an expletive-filled tirade against two Balinese vets in a dispute over her cat but has begged a panel of judges not to be jailed. Jessie White, founder ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. A scroll through the Instagram profile of Australian fashion designer Jessica White reveals a charmed life in sunny Bali, replete with ...

Combining the haunting sounds of the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) with the musical language of the West, this concert features classic Zen Buddhist music and works by Minoru Miki and James ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Silence in music rarely, if ever, gets much attention. Audiences generally see the stars of the show as the sounds, the chords, the ...

Kominato Akihisa is a ground-breaking virtuoso on the shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese bamboo flute. For Kominato, the appeal of the shakuhachi lies in its resemblance to the human voice. It is this ...

Riley Lee will never forget the first time he heard the shakuhachi — a Japanese bamboo flute — on a record his brother brought home to Hawaii in the late 1960s. "It was as if some sentient being was ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Texas A&M hosted the eighth World Shakuhachi Festival, celebrating the Japanese bamboo flute’s music and culture. People gathered in Bryan-College Station to perform, ...

It took some time to count the stamps on my passports, but it turns out I've averaged one trip to Japan per year for the past decade. While crack-of-dawn sushi at Daiwa's in Tokyo's Tsukiji fish ...