In fact, 'The Threepenny Opera,' the 20-minute tour-de-force starting from the heavy-hitting interplay by bassists Reginald Veal and Rodney Whitaker, had been performed several times on stage in Japan, but those performances were mostly in trio or solo-piano format and thus didn't fully realize her original concept. ??Horn section, especially the trombone, was indispensable, says Junko, and it wa