{"id":74255,"date":"2014-08-28T09:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T00:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?p=53658"},"modified":"2016-04-01T01:20:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T16:20:49","slug":"nakasu-jazz-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/nakasu-jazz-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Nakasu Jazz 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of cultural events are happening around town this autumn including the 6th annual <a href=\"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/event\/nakasu-jazz-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nakasu Jazz festival<\/a>, which is growing both in the quality of performances and audience size. Here are two acts not to be missed!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-53537\" alt=\"200124-5D_0394\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/200124-5D_0394.jpg?w=640\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/200124-5D_0394.jpg?w=2700&amp;ssl=1 2700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/200124-5D_0394.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/200124-5D_0394.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/200124-5D_0394.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Don\u2019t miss! HEX &#8211; Toshio Matsuura<\/strong><br \/>\nDJ\/Creative\/Radio Presenter and the original founding member of internationally acclaimed DJ unit, United Future Organization (U.F.O.) is joined by a quartet of musicians consisting of Kan Sano on keyboards &amp; programming, Midorin on drums, Shikou Ito on piano and Yoshihito P Koizumi on bass, and the sixth side of the hexagon is recording engineer zAk. HEX is already setting the pace for a new brand of crossover Jazz from Tokyo to the world. Catch them live in Nakasu on Sep. 12<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-53659\" alt=\"hex 2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/hex-2.jpg?w=640\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/hex-2.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/hex-2.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/hex-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo by Mari Amita<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Don\u2019t miss! Keith Middleton<\/strong><br \/>\nOne of the earliest members of the Off Broadway powerhouse Stomp, Keith Middleton has been pounding the stage in the show where performers turn everyday objects such as matchboxes, brooms, and garbage cans into the fundamental building blocks of a dance, music and theatrical performance. Joining him on stage on Sep. 13 are local artists GUN, Pepe Ito, Jun, Hiro, and URA Hironori.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53660\" alt=\"keith\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/keith.jpg?resize=640%2C640\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/keith.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/keith.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/keith.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u2013\u2013<br \/>\nNakasu Jazz 2014<br \/>\n9\/12 (Fri.), 13 (Sat.) @ Nakasu area<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/event\/nakasu-jazz-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">Event listing here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of cultural events are happening around town this autumn including the 6th annual Nakasu Jazz festival, which is growing both in the quality of performances and audience size. Here are two acts not to be missed! 1. Don\u2019t miss! HEX &#8211; Toshio Matsuura DJ\/Creative\/Radio Presenter and the original founding member of internationally acclaimed DJ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":53659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"53658","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","en-US"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/hex-2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1366&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84711,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74255\/revisions\/84711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}