In the music world, being "Big in Japan" means a music group is less than success in the US or Europe. Alternative artists like Tom Waits, Guano Apes, and Alphaville have both written different songs titled and about the curse of being musically "Big In Japan." There's even a punk band called Big in Japan.

However in this case, after 30 years, a teen jazz trio called the "Dapele Brothers" have become "big in Japan" and the whole world is now taking notice.


Listen to my short, iPod-ready remix of the Dapele Trio's tunes "Maudlin" + "Shortened Suite" (MP3, 3.2MB, 1:32 min.)
[Alternative link here.]

Read the-rest-of-the-story about this a teen jazz group, Dapele Trio, that took 30 years to make a hit here.