JUNKO YAGAMI: Pop Meets Jazz on Route 66

Birdland Theater, New York2 dates

What happens when Japan's City Pop meets New York jazz? Nobody knows. That's exactly the point. This isn't a tribute show. This isn't nostalgia. This is a live experiment --- four world-class musicians walking into Birdland Theater with decades of Japanese pop and American jazz in their bones, and no predetermined destination. The songs will be familiar. What happens to them won't be. Junko Yagami's catalog has already proven it can travel. Songs like , "rdquo" -> Bay City," crafted in the…