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Sendai jazz resonates across generations — “Jozenji Monthly Jazz Spot 2025” special performance to be held on Sunday, November 30th

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Sendai jazz resonates across generations — Special performance of “Jozenji Monthly Jazz Spot 2025” to be held on Sunday, November 30th ​
Vapwind Inc. Press Release: October 20, 2025 Sendai jazz resonates across generations — “Jozenji Monthly Jazz Spot 2025” special performance to be held on Sunday, November 30th Sendai’s oldest big band and its youngest elementary school big band will perform together on a special stage, playing the future of Sendai, the city of music. ■The current state of Sendai jazz, connecting across generations
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Main visual for this project On Sunday, November 30, 2025, the Talk Net Hall Sendai (Sendai Civic Hall) Main Hall will host the “Jozenji Monthly Jazz Spot 2025 – Sendai Jazz Across Generations” event. -” will be holding a special performance. This performance will feature the Swinging Herd Orchestra, Sendai’s oldest big band, active since 1968, and the Yagiyama Band Circle Yumeiro Ongakutai, the youngest big band formed by students from Sendai’s Yagiyama Elementary School. From the intersection of music that transcends generations and positions, this powerful event depicts the revival of Sendai, the “city of music.” Admission is free (unreserved seating). This will be a day where everyone, local residents and tourists alike, can freely experience the power of music. ■Last year’s event: A total of 1,800 people attended! It has developed into a popular local event that has been widely featured in the media.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pCgsonH1Bs Recap of last year’s event (moved to YouTube) In fiscal year 2024, four events were held between July and October at Sendai Mediatheque and L-Park Sendai. A total of over 1,800 people attended, an unprecedented turnout for a weekday evening cultural event. In a visitor survey, over 80% responded that they planned to eat and drink in the Jozenji-dori/Kokubuncho area after the show, demonstrating the efforts to create a natural flow from culture to the economy. The event was also featured on four commercial broadcasting stations, two radio stations, four newspapers, and six online media outlets, garnering a great response with comments such as, “Culture has returned to Sendai’s nightlife.” Building on this success, the event will be expanded in scale in 2025, with the first performance taking place in a hall. ■Art doesn’t end with art alone — Building a cultural-economic linkage model from Sendai
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/74291/23/74291-23-34e5c455744cfcda455f457cc6534c5e-1779×1388.png Don’t just “enjoy art.” That’s the vision of Sendai as a new musical city, as envisioned by “Jozenji Monthly Jazz Spot.” This project has the clear goal of revitalizing the region through the trinity of art, economy, and tourism. More than just a music event, we aim to “implement culture in society” to create an economic cycle for the entire city. After the performance, we’ve set up a system that encourages attendees to visit restaurants and commercial facilities along Jozenji-dori and around Kokubuncho. The lingering excitement of the concert will move the city, people, and the economy. This is the kind of cycle we’re designing. This will create a “night culture model” that will once again light up the nighttime streets, centered around Jozenji-dori. Through these efforts, economics and the arts came together, and in June of this year, “Live Restaurant J’Z” was born as an arts hub in Sendai, operated by Kanesa Fujiwaraya and with the full backing of the Sendai Association of Corporate Executives. This project will also collaborate with live music restaurants and cultural facilities to create a “regular cultural hub” where people can casually enjoy jazz music once a month. Music brings people together, and from there, it spreads to commerce, tourism, and education, visualizing the “flow from art to economy.” This initiative is also an attempt to reconnect Sendai’s historical background—its DNA as the “jazz capital” that gave birth to Japan’s postwar entertainment scene—to modern urban development. ■Music moves the city. Promoting the “Music City Sendai” Initiative
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/74291/23/74291-23-fc06188c68aa5d0df759360018623ea4-1994×1218.png Last year, to promote Sendai as a jazz city, they held a commemorative performance in Taipei. Many people were treated to live music that symbolizes Sendai’s jazz culture. Sendai has a special accumulation of arts and culture not found in other cities. However, in recent years, due to the concentration of people around Sendai Station and the decline of nightlife due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the bustle of people has gradually disappeared from the Jozenji-dori and Kokubuncho area. “Jozenji Monthly Jazz Spot” is an attempt to fill this void with the power of music. We will redefine Jozenji-dori as a “music-centered arts economic zone” and once again promote Sendai, the city where you can hear live music, to the world. Our ultimate goal is to realize a Sendai where music is played somewhere every day. And to create “music tourism,” where people from overseas visit Sendai for the music. We aim for a future where music is ingrained in the daily lives of citizens and Sendai is recognized as a city where tourists visit to listen to music. Art and economy, culture and tourism intersect–this is the new face of Sendai, where “art doesn’t end with art.” ■Eight companies are participating in this initiative as local supporters
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/74291/23/74291-23-850971dfc063cf5880dc6dbb8688ee9c-2026×543.png Eight companies are sponsoring this project as local supporters of Sendai, the “City of Jazz,” and are co-creating local culture. Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd., Suntory Limited, Fujisaki Co., Ltd., Fukamatsugumi Co., Ltd., Kanesa Fujiwaraya Co., Ltd., JR East Tohoku Sogo Service Co., Ltd., Sendai Kyoritsu Co., Ltd., and Vap Wind Co., Ltd. (in no particular order). This company has gone beyond mere sponsorship and will work together as a partner in “revitalizing the local economy through the arts.” The community, the company, and the citizens will work together to weave a new chapter for Sendai, the “city of music.” ■Comment from Founder, Saxophone Player Shun Kumagai
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/74291/23/74291-23-c287d1e24aee5bcc9d5c5e1496e1d28a-3900×2600.jpg “I want to create a city where art is not limited to art alone. Sendai is a city that has always been driven by music. Through jazz, its origins, I want you to experience on this stage the moment when music connects people, culture drives the economy, and the region is revitalized. I hope this performance will become a ‘beacon of sound’ for Sendai in the future.” ■Performance overview
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/74291/23/74291-23-1c103fd7d578076443abd12f24440779-1241×1754.jpg Performance Title: Jozenji Monthly Jazz Spot 2025 – Sendai Jazz Across Generations – Date and Time: Sunday, November 30, 2025 Doors open at 2:30 PM / Show begins at 3:00 PM / Scheduled end at 5:00 PM Venue: Talk Net Hall Sendai (Sendai Civic Hall) Main Hall (4-1 Sakuragaoka Park, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-0823) Admission Fee: Free (Unreserved seating, first-come, first-served) Performers: Swinging Herd Orchestra Yagiyama Band Circle Yumeiro Ongakutai Shun Kumagai
(Saxophone/Navigator) Sachiko Shimasue (Piano)/Shinya Mikata (Bass)/Masahiro Kishikawa (Drums) ■Sponsorship Sponsors: Miyagi Prefecture / Sendai City / Sendai Association of Corporate Executives / Tohoku Tourism Promotion Organization / Jozenji Street Jazz Festival Association / Jozenji-dori Area Management Sponsors: Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd., Suntory Limited, Fujisaki Co., Ltd., Fukamatsugumi Co., Ltd., Kanesa Fujiwaraya Co., Ltd., JR East Tohoku Sogo Service Co., Ltd., Sendai Kyoritsu Co., Ltd., Vapwind Co., Ltd. (in no particular order) ■Special website and information links Special
website:https://www.jc-capo.or.jp/jazzspot/ For more information about this release

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