Mr. King passed peacefully in his sleep at 9:40pm Pacific Time on May 14 2015

B.B.King on the stage for madarao jazz.

1984 Jazz Picnic
1986(w/o photo)
1991 Jazz Picnic＆1991 Jazz Night
1994 Jazz Picnic＆1994 Jazz Night

Swing Journal Japan/Jazz Readers Poll

Yosuke Onuma was on the tour in 2008

Yosuke Onuma made a tour with Yuta Kaneko(org.) and Otsuki "KALTA" Hidenobu(drm), which was continued alomost one year. His trade-mark is Gibson guitar but in this tour he mainly played with the accustic guitar. Now he is as popular as Kazumi Watanabe who is known all over the world.

Yosuke Onuma on the stage in 2003 Jazz Picnic

Indy trumpeter Freddie Hubbard dies

Freddie Hubbard, the Indianapolis native who represented the next step in modern trumpet playing after Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, died Monday in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Hubbard, 70, died from complications of a heart attack he suffered Nov.26.2008 http://www.indystar.com/article/20081229/LOCAL/81229048

Freddie Hubbard on the stage in 1983 Jazz Picnic

2008 was the 50th Annniversary of the Bossa Nova.

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band

would like to pay tribute to the people and the city of New Orleans,Louisiana;may our spirit survive through our irreplaceaable culture.