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With the discharge of her 1993 Blue Note debut Cruisin’, pianist Junko Onishi arrived among the most appealing of Japan-born jazz music artists. We were young in Tokyo, Onishi received traditional piano lessons but became quite thinking about jazz. She researched at Berklee and after 3 years shifted to NY. …

b. Kiryu, Japan. Yamanaka performed piano from age four, studying traditional music and was ultimately granted the grand reward of Japan’s Gumma New Talent competition. In america, she studied in the Berklee University Of Music, graduating in 2000. She was critically praised, earning DownBeat publication’s award for Exceptional Performance as …