ERENA TERAKUBO WAS BORN IN SAPPORO, Japan. She began playing the alto
saxophone at the age of nine. TERAKUBO PLAYED THE SAXOPHONE INFLUENCED
BY ARTISTS SUCH AS CHARLIE PARKER, Cannonball Adderley, and Sonny
Stitt.In 2010, Terakubo released her first album, "North Bird" with
Kenny Barron, Christian McBride, Lee Pearson, and Peter Bernstein,
through Japanese major label King Records. It marked No. 1 on the
Japanese jazz charts and was awarded Swing Journal's Gold Disc. Later
that year, she performed with Ron Carter, Omar Hakim, and Will
Boulware at the Tokyo Jazz Festival. In 2011, Terakubo recorded her
second album, "New York Attitude" with Kenny Barron, Ron Carter, Lee
Pearson, and Dominick Farinacci. In the same year, she received a
presidential scholarship from Berklee College of Music. She graduated
in 2015. She moved to New York in the same year.
Terakubo has performed with Kenny Barron, Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb,
Louis Hayes, Vincent Herring, Christian McBride, John Beasley's
Monk'estra, Lewis Nash, and Lenny White just to name a few. In
addition, Terakubo has toured around the globe as a leader including
Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, Australia, and the Middle East.
Terakubo released 6 albums as a leader.
Born in 1995 in Hokkaido, Japan, Nana Sakamoto began playing the
trombone at age 10, getting involved with Big Band music during her
elementary school and junior high school years. She then studied under
Hirotsugu Sakemoto, a respected trombonist in Japan. Nana moved to NY
in 2018 and is quickly becoming one of the most demanded jazz
trombonists of her generation.
She has performed / recorded with Ray Drummond, Louis Hayes, John Lee,
Steve Davis, Tommy Campbell, Vincent Herring, Carl Allen, Freddie
Hendrix, Cyrus Chestnut, David Wong, Sadao Watanabe, Jay Thomas,
Dezron Douglas, Ulysses Owens Jr., David Kikoski, Michael Rodriguez,
Jonathan Powell, Birdland Big Band, to name a few.
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