{"id":56271,"date":"2015-08-28T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=56271"},"modified":"2015-08-26T19:50:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T23:50:21","slug":"blue-note-late-night-grooveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=56271","title":{"rendered":"Blue Note: Late Night Grooveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, August 28 12:30AM<br \/>\nBlue Note<br \/>\n131 West 3rd Street, New York, NY 10012<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/noid-KazunoriKumagai_4upsingle.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[56271]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56272\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/noid-KazunoriKumagai_4upsingle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kazunori Kumagai born in Sendai City, Japan will make his debut at Blue Note. This night will feature Kazunori Kumagai (Tap dance), Alex Blake on bass, Bill Ware on vibes and Samuel  Torres on percussion.<\/p>\n<p>Kumagai  started tap dancing at the age of 15 and came to NY at the age of 19.  He trained in FUNK UNIVERSITY, the training workshop for the big hit  Broadway musical Bring in da&#8217; Noise, Bring in &#8216;da Funk. He studied with  Ted Levy, Buster Brown, Gregory Hines, Barbara Duffy, and Derick K.  Grant.<\/p>\n<p>He performed in Tony Waag\u2019s Tap City, the New York City Tap Festival  more than ten times and was dubbed by The Village Voice as the &#8220;Japanese  Gregory Hines.&#8221; In 2006, he was selected as one of Dance Magazine&#8217;s &#8220;25  to Watch.&#8221; In 2014, he received Flo-Bert Award on National Tap Dance  Day in NEW YORK.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets and information available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcreation.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.marcreation.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, August 28 12:30AM Blue Note 131 West 3rd Street, New York, NY 10012<\/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-56271","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\/56271","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=56271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56273,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56271\/revisions\/56273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}