LTSC Announces Sake on the Couch
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Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC) is excited to announce the first, last and only Sake on the Couch (formerly Sake on the Rocks) on Saturday, July 17.
The popular summer event is a fundraiser for LTSC. For over 40 years, LTSC has provided a safety net of social welfare and community development services to empower people and communities in need. LTSC provides culturally and linguistically appropriate services to the Japanese American community in the Southland, builds multi-family affordable housing projects to uplift low-income neighborhoods of color throughout Los Angeles, and promotes equitable development and cultural preservation in the Little Tokyo neighborhood.
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Put yourself there: Chinatown, Honolulu during and after WWII. Drummer Harold Chang, now 92, remembers jazz clubs all through the neighborhood.
Chang says fine musicians cycled through Hawai i in the military. And the robust entertainment scene, centered in Chinatown, attracted high quality players to the islands.
Good musicians were coming in and going out. In the service, at night they d go to Hotel Street. And jam, you know?
You can still find Honolulu s oldest bar, good old Smith s Union, on Hotel Street. Established in 1934, it opens daily at 8 a.m. In the late 40s, 50s and 60s, Remember international tattoo trend setter Sailor Jerry? His tattoo parlor and others, welcomed patrons, alongside fortune tellers, next to liquor stores, taxi dance halls, and jazz bars on Hotel Street.
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Tomoko Omura, Tomie s Blues
Born in Shizuoka, Japan and based in Brooklyn, NY, violinist Tomoko Omura has earned just acclaim for her command of the jazz tradition on her instrument, going back to Joe Venuti, Stéphane Grappelli and Stuff Smith. But she has also made a conscious and inspiring study of folkloric music from her homeland, notably on her albums
Roots, in 2015, and
Branches Vol. 1, in 2020. A follow-up,
Branches Vol. 2, is coming soon, featuring Omura with an ensemble that includes pianist Glenn Zaleski, guitarist Jeff Miles, bassist Pablo Menares and drummer Jay Sawyer. Its most touching piece is Tomie s Blues, an original dedicated to the memory of Omura s grandmother.