"I wanted to study jazz and everybody was here," he said.
Akiyoshi immediately loved the sound, and began to study jazz.
Students are studying the gospel music and jazz that the migrants brought North.
The challenge now will be preparing instrumental and vocal students to study jazz at the college level.
He then went on to study jazz, played drums in various bands, and also became a drum teacher.
His mother, Judy, studied ballet and jazz until she was 18 but then became a physical therapist.
She dropped classical music and began studying jazz with an instructor in Boston.
Dancing since the age of three, she studied ballet, tap, and jazz.
In high school he took up the tenor saxophone and began studying jazz.
We want an academic center, not a place where it is played because there are many of them but no place to study jazz.