Teddy tanaka biography
Iolani grad authors book with jazz impresario Wein.
Teddy tanaka biography
Iolani grad authors book with jazz impresario Wein
By Zenaida Serrano Espanol
Advertiser Staff Writer
Teddy Tanaka asked his son what he wanted to do next.
"I said, 'You know, I'd really like to write a book,' " Chinen recalled telling his father.
"'I'd really like to write a kind of jazz history of some sort, you know, or like, write a biography of somebody. I don't know, maybe someday that will happen.'"
The idea wasn't far-fetched, as the 1994 Iolani graduate was an English major who, as a college student, did freelance jazz writing for the Philadelphia City Paper.
Chinen, a drummer, is a jazz musician himself.
Less than a year later, a series of chance meetings and coincidences lead Chinen to help write what