saco-indonesia.com, Even jazz di tanah air saat ini memang relatif telah menjamur dari tahun ke tahun. Itulah yang membuat Mus Mujiono itu berpendapat bahwa apresiasi masyarakat dan pertumbuhan jazz yang sangat tinggi. Bahkan menurut Mus Mujiono, Indonesia lebih berkembang daripada Eropa.

"Saya banyakan off air. Karena event jazz di Indonesia sangat tinggi, banyak sekali bahkan. Tak hanya di Jakarta," kata Mus saat dijumpai di Jak Jazz 2013 hari kedua, Istora Senayan, Jakarta Pusat.

"Pertumbuhan kita lebih besar dari Eropa, setiap kota di Indonesia telah mempunyai event jazz yang profesional, kita juga bisa tahu musisi kita lagi pesat majunya," lanjutnya.

Mus pun juga sangat bersyukur telah memiliki banyak event musik, khususnya jazz. Di situ banyak sekali bermunculan talenta talenta muda yang tidak canggung lagi ketika berkolaborasi dengan senior.

"Event seperti itu diharapkan dapat memacu industri musik Indonesia. Dengan ada event, bagus sekali karena kita juga bisa lihat beberapa musisi jazz muda yang bermunculan saat ini semua instrumen di munculkan," tukasnya.

Editor : dian sukmawati
Sumber : kapanlagi.com

BEIJING (AP) — The head of Taiwan's Nationalists reaffirmed the party's support for eventual unification with the mainland when he met Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of continuing rapprochement between the former bitter enemies.

Nationalist Party Chairman Eric Chu, a likely presidential candidate next year, also affirmed Taiwan's desire to join the proposed Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank during the meeting in Beijing. China claims Taiwan as its own territory and doesn't want the island to join using a name that might imply it is an independent country.

Chu's comments during his meeting with Xi were carried live on Hong Kong-based broadcaster Phoenix Television.

The Nationalists were driven to Taiwan by Mao Zedong's Communists during the Chinese civil war in 1949, leading to decades of hostility between the sides. Chu, who took over as party leader in January, is the third Nationalist chairman to visit the mainland and the first since 2009.

Relations between the communist-ruled mainland and the self-governing democratic island of Taiwan began to warm in the 1990s, partly out of their common opposition to Taiwan's formal independence from China, a position advocated by the island's Democratic Progressive Party.

Despite increasingly close economic ties, the prospect of political unification has grown increasingly unpopular on Taiwan, especially with younger voters. Opposition to the Nationalists' pro-China policies was seen as a driver behind heavy local electoral defeats for the party last year that led to Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou resigning as party chairman.