What I Learned On My Trip To Asia (Live)

What's up everyone? Hope you guys are having a great Sunday. I just got back from a trip to South Korea and Japan with my family. Was gone for a couple weeks and some of you probably didn't notice it because I was releasing videos during it.

uh none of which I made while I was over there, but um my first time ever traveling to Asia at 63 years of age and it was really fascinating the two the two cultures there um and and seeing how uh the importance of music in the two different cultures uh in Korea where we went first, South Korea. If you think about it, some of the exports of South Korea like Squid Games and there's a number of TV shows that that uh people watch here in the United States that are just that, you know, have uh captions and that are all in Korean. and K-pop music has been massively big here for about a decade or so. Um, so those are just some of the things that are um I would say important not just to the United States but to all to Western cultures.

Um, and then in Japan, Japan, uh, we only went to Tokyo, but uh, Japan is so important to Western music, jazz. Um, it's uh the reverence that the Japanese people have for I'll just talk about American jazz music. I I'll give you an interesting statistic from um or point of reference from uh one of my interviews with Keith Jarrett. Keith Jarrett told me that he played 251 times, I think is that's what it was, in Japan in his career.

251 concerts. That's an insane amount. I looked up the last time that Keith Jarrett played in Atlanta and it was in 19 late 84 85 because almost no jazz musicians come to Atlanta. Um, I I looked up when Kurt Rosenwinkle was in Atlanta because we we went to see.

So, uh, in when we were in Seoul, I was looking in the the um looking on Instagram and it came up that Kurt Rosenl was playing in Soul. So, I uh so I texted Kurt. It was Kurt. It was Peter Bernstein, another guitar player.

Uh, Joe Farnsworth was playing drummer. great drummer. I'm trying to remember who the bass player was. Um they were playing at a theater ...