Yasuhiro "Fuji" Fujioka

Male

Osaka

Japan

Profile Information:

What instrument do you play?: NO
Who influenced you to listen to jazz: John Coltrane from radio program
How did you find out about the WDCJN?: washingtondcjazznetwork.ning.com/events/parma-jazz-festival-may-58th
My Website: http://http://blog.livedoor.jp/coltranehouse/
Where are you located?: Osaka, Japan
Tell us about yourself: A freelance jazz journalist, photographer, educator and producer.
Contributor for Japanese magazines Swing Journal, Jazz Critique and Record Collectors since 1987.
An author/co-author of John Coltrane/A Discography and Musical Biography, Scarecrow Press, MD, 1995
and The John Coltrane Reference, Routledge, NYC 2008.
One of a board member for the preservation of "John Coltrane Home" in Huntington Dix Hills, NY, USA where John had been living three years - '64 through '67 - and composed his masterpiece "A Love Supreme" in 1964.
http://www.thecoltranehome.org/