From Pop to Jazz

Japanese jazz pianist Senri Oe was a stadium-scale pop star in the 1980s and ’90s, performing on lavishly designed stages with choreographed dancers and exploding fireworks. He even had a body double cavort in front of the crowd while the real Oe was backstage.

“One time, the scenery was the Greek Parthenon,” he tells . “And darkness fell over all of our vision. I hid, and fake me went out in the same costume. I was already