The "Meet in Beijing" Arts Festival got a bit of Japanese jazz on Sunday night, with a special concert from jazz pianist Makoto Ozone made his second trip in the Chinese capital.

The show featured a combination of Western jazz melodies and the artist's original compositions – "Bouncing in My New Shoes", "My Witch's Blue", "Asian Dream", wafting through the National Center for Performing Arts.

While his shows are mostly improvised, Ozone said his compositions stay faithful to the genre: "My compositions are based on my experience of living, and when I played classical music I was a sort of improvised in my way to add something to my music."

He added: "We have history, we have traditions, we have formats that are very important, (so) I challenged to make the involvement based on this original format without breaking it, changing it and ruining it."

The concert is a follow-up to Ozone's 2010 solo performance in the same location, done in celebration of Polish classical pianist Frederic Chopin's 200th birthday.

The artist said he believes music has the power to connect people regardless of origin: "Music connects people, music breaks the wall between any culture, the color of skin, language and genders. Regardless of what's going on in the world in reality, we basically a living creature, and we share this beautiful planet together, and then we have love and feelings."

He added that "I think it's so important for all of us to share the feeling and music is the key, or any art is a key, but music is the strongest tool to connect people's heart directly and immediately."

The concert was part of a series of events for the 20th "Meet in Beijing" International Arts Festival, which brings a month of music, plays, art, and cultural activities to the capital.