{"id":44495,"date":"2014-06-25T08:59:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T12:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=44495"},"modified":"2014-06-23T16:02:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:02:29","slug":"jazz-saxophonist-sadao-watanabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=44495","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Saxophonist Sadao Watanabe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, June 25, 2014 8:00 PM &#8211; 9:30 PM<br \/>\nAsia Society<br \/>\n725 Park Avenue, New York, NY<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Jazz-Saxophonist-Sadao-Watanabe.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[44495]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44496\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Jazz-Saxophonist-Sadao-Watanabe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sadao Watanabe is one of Japan\u2019s greatest jazz musicians. By 1958, he had established himself as a world-class saxophonist, having performed with leading musicians and quartets. He moved to Boston in 1962 to study at Berklee College of Music. His work encompasses a large range of styles, and he has collaborated with musicians from all over the world. Joined by an ensemble of talented American musicians, he gives a rare performance at the Asia Society as part of the Blue Note Jazz Festival.<br \/>\nSadao Watanabe: Saxaphone<br \/>\nRussell Ferrante: Piano\/Keys<br \/>\nFelix Pastorius: Bass<br \/>\nWill Kennedy: Drums<br \/>\nThis performance is supported by Japan Foundation, New York through its JFNY Grant for Arts &amp; Culture.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the event, please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/new-york\/events\/jazz-saxophonist-sadao-watanabe\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, June 25, 2014 8:00 PM &#8211; 9:30 PM Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44499,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44495\/revisions\/44499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}