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 ...

You have probably heard this sound before. This is the first thing that shakuhachi player Kojiro Umezaki tells people who aren’t familiar with his instrument. Maybe you’ve heard the vertical bamboo ...

THE SHAKUHACHI MANUAL FOR LEARNING, Revised Edition, by Christopher Yohmei Blasdel. Printed Matter Press, 2008, 202 pp. with many illustrations, musical notations, and an attached CD of practice ...

In a rehearsal room in the Woolworth Center of Musical Studies, students are blowing into their instruments, flicking hands over finger holes, shaking heads, and dipping chins up and down to create ...

The first non-Japanese to attain the rank of Grand Master of the shakuhachi bamboo flute, Riley Lee has been mesmerizing audiences with his spellbinding playing for decades. Teaming with Grammy ...

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

The first non-Japanese to attain the rank of grand master of the shakuhachi bamboo flute, Riley Lee has been enthralling audiences with his mesmerizing playing for more than three decades. Moving from ...

California native Bruce Huebner fell in love with the shakuhachi flute as a young man, and in the subsequent decades he has become an accomplished composer, performer, and teacher of the traditional ...

And this refers to the legendary founder of the tradition of shakuhachi playing as spiritual practice, Fuke. Now Fuke himself, the Chinese Zen Buddhist priest who lived in the 9th century, he existed, ...

From a Japanese bamboo flute that is harvested and then cured to an unusual fretless zither and a blue Fender Strat, three performers tell the stories of the instruments they cherish A central figure ...