Their visit is an unusual opportunity for the music lovers of Islamabad and Rawalpindi to witness a performance by such a world-renowned jazz group like the Hino Terumasa Jazz Quintet. This performance will also be the masterpiece and concluding cultural event of the Pakistan-Japan Friendship Fest in the metropolitan area which is being held since October last year.
Invitation is on first come first served basis.
The concert at Rawalpindi will be the last leg of the group's South Asian tour, after performances at Calcutta, Delhi and Karachi. This grand musical production has been sponsored by the Japan Foundation and is being arranged by the Embassy of Japan in cooperation with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts. The leader of the jazz group Terumasa Hino was born in Tokyo in 1942, and he was catapulted to fame after the 1965 release of his first leader album Alone Alone and Alone . All Stars with musicians he had encountered on trips through Asia. The group toured the world in 1995 and 1996.