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A co-founder from the Asian Improv Information label, jazz pianist, composer and bandleader Jon Jang has helped revitalize the jazz music picture in San Francisco’s Bay Region since the later ’80s. The L.A.-blessed musician was raised in Palo Alto, CA and didn’t begin learning the piano until he was 19, …

Located in Chicago but originally from Japan, Tatsu Aoki can be an acoustic bassist who documented mostly avant-garde jazz within the ’90s but may also manage straight-ahead post bop and traditional Japanese music. Sometimes, he has mixed jazz with components of Asian music. Aoki was created and elevated in Tokyo …