Mark Izu is an American jazz double bass player and composer. He is of Japanese ancestry and frequently combines jazz with Asian traditional musics (particularly the ancient Japanese court music known as gagaku) in his compositions. He has performed with Anthony Brown and Jon Jang. Izu is a seminal leader in the Asian American Jazz movement. His compositions include symphony, film, theater, dance and jazz. The principal curator of the original Asian American Jazz Festival held at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park for nearly two decades, he helped establish the genre. In addition to the double bass, he also plays the Japanese shō and Chinese sheng (both mouth organs).
He lives in San Francisco, California, with his wife, playwright and performer Brenda Wong Aoki, and son (Kai Kāne Aoki Izu).
Mark Izu received a Northern California Regional Emmy Award for outstanding Musical Composition/Arrangement for his score for Bolinao 52, a film about the Vietnamese boat people, which also received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary.
MarkIzu is an American jazz double bass player and composer. He is of Japanese ancestry and frequently combines jazz with Asian traditional musics (particularly...
The Dancing Girl of Izu or The Izu Dancer (伊豆の踊子, Izu no odoriko) is a short story (or, accounting for its length, a novella) by Japanese writer and Nobel...
for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. Aoki and her husband MarkIzu, an Emmy-winning jazz music composer, are the founders of First Voice,...
Toyo Fujita Edward Peil, Sr. Cinematography Frank D. Williams Music by MarkIzu, 2005 restoration Production company Haworth Pictures Corporation Distributed...
René Yañez, Leo Valledor. Live performances by Winston and Mary Tong, MarkIzu and Ray Robles, poetry readings by Janice Mirikitani, Jessica Hagedorn...
jazz festival in the San Francisco area. Notable participants include MarkIzu, Fred Ho, Vijay Iyer, and Jin Hi Kim. APAture is an annual multidisciplinary...
of the Fuji Five Lakes. The lake is within the borders of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. The lake has no natural outlet, and flooding of settlements...
Tchicai, Art Davis, Francis Wong, Miya Masaoka, Tatsu Aoki, William Roper, MarkIzu, and San Jose Taiko. He recorded for the Asian Improve and Soul Note labels...
Sciobhan Brooks, Glen Horiuchi, Vijay Iyer, George E. Lewis, Trevor Dunn, MarkIzu, Liu Qi Chao, Anthony Brown, Elliot Humberto Kavee, Thomas Day, Patty Liu...
American Jazz Orchestra, "Big Bands Behind Barbed Wire", Asian Improv 1998 MarkIzu, "Last Dance", Asian Improv 1998 "Rhythm Journey", San Jose Taiko 2005...
east, the Izu Peninsula, in Shizuoka Prefecture, to the west, and the Shōnan coastline to the north, while the island of Izu Ōshima marks the southern...
features on the 2-peso coin of Uruguay. In Japan, following the lead of Izu Shaboten Zoo in 1982, multiple establishments or zoos in Japan that raise...
breathplay 息遊、2007 NAVARASA A collaboration with acoustic bass player MarkIzu、2010 Striking Light, Striking Dark A collaboration with vocalist Sasha...
contract tuberculosis, requiring him to recuperate in a sanatorium in the Izu Peninsula, leaving Sadako to be raised by Shizuko's relatives. Like her mother...
provide views of the mountain. The mountain is part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. It can be seen more distantly from Yokohama, Tokyo, and sometimes...
(3.1–3.6 in)/year. The Izu–Ogasawara Trench is south of the Japan Trench in the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of the Izu Trench (at the north) and...
(modern-day Kōchi Prefecture). The earthquake and tsunami also struck Shimoda on Izu peninsula; and because the port had just been designated as the prospective...
statue originally created in the Japanese village of Niijima, located in the Izu Islands. The statues, which were created to promote awareness of Niijima...
Five hydroid species from the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. (1983) Hydroids from Izu Oshima and Nijima. (1984) A new hydroid Hydractinia bayeri n. sp. (family...
this region, it is not related to subduction. Some geologists include the Izu Islands, the Bonin Islands, and the Mariana Islands, other geologists exclude...
Japan include: Fukutarō – (Isabella), a Romanian national who worked in the Izu-Nagaoka district of Shizuoka Prefecture. She began her apprenticeship in...
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