no music, no life, really?

"Zen and Bones"(禅と骨) is a documentary film that follows the Zen monk Henry Mittwer, born to an American father and a Japanese mother. Henry Mittwer was a Japanese-American born in Yokohama in 1918. He loved Japanese culture deeply and spent his later years as a Zen monk at Tenryu-ji Temple in Kyoto.
This album is the original soundtrack for the film. Junko Onishi (大西 順子, Ōnishi Junko, born April 16, 1967 in Kyoto) is a Japanese jazz pianist; she plays in the post-bop genre.