Yasuhiro Fujioka

Coltrane Scholar, Board member, Friends of The Coltrane Home

Fuji is President of “Coltrane House of Osaka”, Kimono shop “Fujioka,” and is a freelance jazz writer/ producer/ photographer/ educator and the author of four books on the subject of John Coltrane. Fuji is a supplier of memorabilia to The Verve Music Group (NYC and Tokyo offices); Concord Records, CA; Warner Music, Japan; Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC and others, and a contributor to the Coltrane Collection for exhibiting at the National Museum of American History at Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame in Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC; High Point Historical Museum, High Point, NC, and Half Hollow Hills Community Library on Long Island, NY. Fuji is also a dedicated collector of Coltrane memorabilia since 1970 at age 17.