City Pop Waves arrives at Brooklyn Paramount as a live jazz set anchored by guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka. The night threads electric guitar lines through tight ensemble playing, leaning on groove and melodic clarity rather than extended abstraction. The Brooklyn Paramount context matters: a restored New York room built for amplified music now hosting an artist tied to Japan’s late‑20th‑century pop-jazz continuum. The result is a clean, disciplined sound that treats virtuosity as arrangement, not display.