Japanese Jazz Musician Burns Piano

Famed Japanese jazz pianist Yosuke Yamashita has expressed his burning passion for music by setting his piano on fire at a beach. Let's take a look. For more news and videos visit ☛ Follow us on Twitter ☛ Add us on Facebook ☛ 66-year-old jazz pianist Yosuke Yamashita is receiving some criticism for wasting a piano. While playing an improvised jazz piece before about 500 spectators, his piano burst into flames. Yamashita continued playing for a full 10 minutes before the strings burnt out and snapped, and the piano went quiet. [Yosuke Yamashita, Japanese jazz pianist]: “I did not think I was risking my life but I was almost suffocating from the smoke that was continuously getting into my eyes and nose. I had decided to keep on playing until the piano stopped making sounds, so though I did not mean it but it ended up having a life-or -death battle between the piano and myself.&q