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Jazz communities have flourished in Yogyakarta, Solo, Semarang, and Purwokerto. They all say: jazz is not music that belongs merely to the elite.

December 3, 2013

A YOUNG girl in a red headscarf, Ken Nampi Mukti, blew into a gold-colored saxophone, playing the song Ke Rumah Paman (To Uncle's House). She wrote the swinging tune about a child's vacation at her uncle's village home after her own such visit. "I like the scenery of the rice fields," said Kenny, a first-year student at Junior High School No. 14, Yogyakarta.

Kenny performed with Kirana Big Band to open Ngayogjazz 2013 in Sidoakur tourist village, Jetha

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