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Though Muddy Waters never wrote a song about it, Osaka is Japan’s official “home of the blues,” and therefore worthy of Chicago cultural exchange. Blues artists Kaichiro Mouri and Rolling Katchan, along with local Japanese transplant and boogie-woogie expert Yoko Noge, kick off the fifth annual Asian American Jazz 2000/Chicago festival at 6:30 p.m. Thursday (through Nov. 13) at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Randolph St. $18 to $38.50. 312-280-2660.
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