Kiyoshi Koyama, widely regarded as Japan’s pre-eminent jazz journalist, who covered the music’s development throughout the 1960s and ’70s before becoming a producer of archival albums, died on Feb. 3 in Kashiwa, Japan. Katherine Whatley, a journalist and friend of Mr. Koyama, said the cause was stomach cancer. As the editor of Swing Journal, the leading jazz magazine in one of the world’s most jazz-loving countries, Mr. Koyama rigorously covered the music being made on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, often traveling to the United States. Mr. Koyama watched Coleman’s band rehearsing and spent time with him in his living quarters above the rehearsal space. That’s interesting to me,” Mr. Koyama told Ms. Whatley for a 2015 article in the English-language publication The Japan Times.

Source: New York Times February 17, 2019 20:48 UTC