Watch City Pop Legend Masayoshi Takanaka Perform In America For The First Time In 40 Years

The 71-year-old Japanese guitar hero Masayoshi Takanaka has had a long career that’s stretched across prog, jazz fusion, and the hybrid genre known as city pop. He’s collaborated with Santana and Roxy Music, and Grimes sampled his track “Penguin Dancer” on her Art Angels song “Butterfly.” This past week, Takanaka performed at the Wiltern in Los Angeles, and this was a rare thing indeed. As far as anyone can tell, Takanaka’s Wiltern shows were his first American appearances in de...

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