Riley Lee Interview pt 2

This is the continuation of the interview with Riley Lee ( • Riley Lee Interview - ... ), where we talked about his wide-ranging career in shakuhachi, taiko, ethnomusicological research and music in general. We also touched on topics of Zen and shakuhachi.
Watch the first part here:
• Riley Lee Interview - ...
From Riley’s biography:
Riley Lee began playing the shakuhachi (bamboo flute) in Japan in 1971, studying was with Chikuho Sakai until 1980, and has been a student of Katsuya Yokoyama since 1984.He was given the rank of Dai Shihan (grand master) in 1980.
Riley was born in Plainview Texas USA in 1951, and moved to Shawnee Oklahoma USA in 1957, where, aged 13, he became the bass player of the award-winning rock band “The Workouts”. He and his family moved to Hawai’i in 1966. He first went to Japan in 1970, and returned in 1971, when he began his shakuhachi studies. He lived there continuously until 1977.
From 1973, Riley became the first non-Japanese to play taiko professionally, by touring internationally as a full-time performer of taiko (Japanese festival drums), yokobue (a high pitched bamboo transverse flute) and shakuhachi with Ondekoza (now called Kodo) a troupe of traditional Japanese musicians, performing with such groups as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and at venues such as Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Roundhouse Theatre (London), Espace Pierre Cardin (Paris), and the Boston Symphony Hall.
0:00:28 Sakai Chikuho II
0:09:19 Teaching style
0:19:11 Learning from Yokoyama & licenses
0:26:13 The iemoto system
0:31:37 Licenses and teaching
0:38:47 KSK and Chikushinkai
0:44:47 Why do you still play?
0:56:37 Goals
1:07:35 Making a living
1:13:15 How to practise
1:20:57 But what do I practise?
1:28:05 Health and shakuhachi
1:35:06 What stands out?
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[@joestatuto5287]

Thank you for this insightful interview. Such useful advise.

[@MarkusGuhe]

Thanks! 🙏 Yes, I definitely learned a lot!

[@mayamunoz8693]

thank u !

[@MarkusGuhe]

Thanks for watching! 🙏

[@edwinso5328]

Riley's advice is straight from guts and pragmatic

[@MarkusGuhe]

I couldn't agree more! 🙏