Blue NipponJapans jazz communityboth musicians and audiencehas been begrudgingly recognized in the United States for its talent, knowledge, and level of appreciation. Underpinning this tentative admiration, however, has been a tacit agreement that, for cultural reasons, Japanese jazz cant swing. In Blue Nippon E. Taylor Atkins shows how, strangely, Japans own attitude toward jazz is founded on this same ambivalence about its authenticity. Engagingly told through