Yoshi Kato

1 week ago | downbeat.com | Yoshi Kato

By Yoshi Kato   I  Apr. 16, 2025 From sisters Tia Fuller and Shamie Royston, Kneebody co-founders Shane Endsley and Kaveh Rastegar and the late Ron Miles to historic figures like Paul Whiteman and Jimmie Lunceford, Denver has been called home by a plethora of jazz talent. Now that home has its own festival. Scheduled to run April 3–6, the inaugural Denver Jazz Fest celebrates the storied past and vibrant present of the metro area’s jazz scene.

1 month ago | downbeat.com | Yoshi Kato

By Yoshi Kato   I  Mar. 18, 2025 During his 54 years as a Bay Area resident, tabla maestro Zakir Hussain had an unspoken reputation with locals as somehow being both omnipresent and omniscient. So it was wholly appropriate that the Celebration of Life and Music for the late virtuoso on Feb. 28 was held at Grace Cathedral. Hussain, who passed away from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis on Dec.

1 month ago | medium.com | Yoshi Kato

console.log(“Hello World”)Yoshi Kato·Follow2 min read·--This is exciting. I’m a ponderer through and through, but I find myself being conservative with writing my thoughts out. Somehow the notion of creating a document to save my ideas seems unnecessary. Yet I find myself deliberating over thought and perspective, and ruminating with an AI bot (Claude, my second therapist) for many hours about what I am. So certainly this — writing — is quite necessary.

2 months ago | sfcv.org | Yoshi Kato

There are typically a few different draws for an orchestral concert: the soloist, the composers whose works are programmed, the home team of musicians itself. All those will certainly be in play when cellist Joshua Roman performs music from J.S. Bach to Caroline Shaw on Feb. 12 at Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall, joined by the Stanford Medicine Orchestra for the evening’s second half.

Jan 22, 2025 | sfcv.org | Yoshi Kato

Community has become a hallmark of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, be it gatherings, services, or celebrations. “Lift Every Voice: A Singer Showcase,” presented this past weekend by the San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF) at the SFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson Lab, embodied all of these modes in an uplifting musical setting.