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May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, as designated by Congress in the early 1990s. (Prior to that, going back to 1978, its observance was a weeklong affair.) As an acknowledgment of the myriad contributions of Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders, the occasion prompts both celebration and a moment s reflection. Within the music called jazz, born of the African American experience, there has always been a space for Asian-American contributions but it s often been a marginal space, even a provisional one. And as Gary Fukushima thoughtfully explored in a recent article for DownBeat, pressure has only increased since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. ....
It did not take long for a booking at Little Tokyo’s Blue Whale to become a stamp of approval among music fans with an ear for improvisatory sounds. If you could get your name on the chalkboard marquee, it was a validation from the owner and booker Joon Lee that you were doing something interesting. Probably not commercial. Maybe a little hip. But definitely new and worth pursuing. That approval was enough to keep the club as the centerpiece of L.A.’s imaginative and expanding jazz scene for more than a decade. But amid an evaporated source of revenue and unforgiving lease obligations during the COVID-19 pandemic, Blue Whale has permanently closed. ....