JAKARTA -- Idang Rasjidi sits alone in the middle of the night, having been driven from his recording studio by one of the frequent and ferocious rainstorms in his adopted hometown of Bogor. Although ...

Certainly it would appear that there is a growing appetite for the music. Jazz festivals are popping up all over the place and the two largest, Java Jazz Festival in Indonesia and Jarasum Jazz ...

Patahan, the first of simakDialog's widely available records, was a recording of a 2005 live performance at Goethe Haus in Jakarta. It was released in 2007. Led by the piano and Fender Rhodes of Riza ...

Gunung is not the name of the town which hosts Jazz Gunung; in Bahasa—the predominant language of Indonesia—it means mountain. Mountain Jazz is as good a name as any given that this one-day festival ...

NEW YORK — Joey Alexander’s favorite things include the Avengers, SpongeBob and Thelonious Monk. He’s a normal 11-year-old kid who just happens to be a jazz piano prodigy from Indonesia and has ...

The Java Jazz Festival in Indonesia will take place next month. It will be one of the largest jazz festivals in the world. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how ...