John Kaizan Neptune
John Kaizan Neptune (born November 13, 1951, in Oakland, California, United States) is an American player and builder of the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute). He is known particularly for his use of the instrument in non-traditional contexts, such as jazz and cross-cultural music.
Neptune studied ethnomusicology at the University of Hawaii, where he began to study the shakuhachi with a Japanese…