Japanese pianist Toru Dodo and his trio are the featured act on Sunday nights at Cleopatra's Needle, 92nd and Broadway, New York City. Dodo plays a full set, then hosts the Sunday night jam. His trio ...

Toru Dodo, born in Tokyo , started playing classical piano at age 4. After he entered the Meiji University in Tokyo , he discovered Jazz music. (His major was Economics.) He started gigging in Tokyo ...

Maria Sokolovsky grew up in Russia, studying violin and classical voice. She was headed for a career as an opera singer. Now she has an entirely new life. The New York-based Sokolovsky is the ...