Hazama, in this podcast: “My main study back in Japan was to be a film composer. But at the time, computer was taking over the entire industry. My thing was to write for acoustic musicians, not for the computer. … And I kind of lost my dream in the middle of my college life in Japan. So that’s the only reason why I got really into jazz composition. And then I wanted to meet jazz composers who are alive. That excited me so much because I couldn’t obviously meet Ravel or Prokofiev or Stravinsky in person.” – Slate