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	Asian American Jazz Festival Converges on Japantown By Titiana Leung Inglis Special to AsianWeek Over the weekend, San Francisco’s Asian American Jazz 2002 festival rode a heat wave into another triumphant year. Musicians from the Bay Area, Los Angeles and Chicago, from Asian Pacific and African America, converged on Japantown and entwined melodies in tribute to this year’s theme, “The Spirit of Improvisation.” As the festival drew to a close Sunday night at Locus 1640 Post, the mood was celebratory. The weekend’s performers gathered jubilantly after the show, congratulating one another on their performances, while percussionist Jimmy Biala — still beaming after performing three nights out of four — handed out Cuban cigars. Festival executive director Francis Wong paused, saxophone in hand, to declare it “a very successful festival. I think the audiences uniformly had a great time.” COMPLETE STORY...		Making Musical History (Feature) Patsy Mink Remembered at Two-Hour Memorial in Hawai‘i (in National News) State Labor Commissioner Pays Back Wages to Wins Workers (in Bay Area News) Fashion and Compassion (in Business) Dodgers Introduce Major Leagues’ First Taiwanese-born Player (in Sports) Asian American Jazz Festival Converges on Japantown (in A&E) Emil Amok: Selling War and Sleeper Cells (in Opinion)

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