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Aya Takazawa & Ringori-rappa
18:30 - 21:00, Saturday, October 5, 2024
Aya Takazawa is a Japanese trumpeter. She started playing the piano at five and the trumpet at ten. Takazawa graduated from Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo and studied under Hitoshi Kumagai, who was a principal trumpeter of Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. After graduation from college, she took part in various music activities, above all was a Jazz CD by the female brass unit "Tokyo Brass Style" of which she was a leading member. It was a major hit in the Japanese jazz music charts.
In 2009 Takazawa played solo trumpet for the first time as a Japanese trumpeter at the commemoration ceremony of the United Nations Population Fund held in New York. Her expressive power of the trumpet received the highest praise from ambassadors from all over the world. In 2012 with the release of her first album "Patterns," she established a reputation as a versatile jazz musician and followed that with appearances at "Summer Jazz" in Hibiya-Kokaido, the Night Cruise Jazz arranged by Tatsuo Sunaga (DJ), and played with Manhattan Jazz Quintet on "Monterey Jazz Festival in NOTO."
Takazawa also studied traditional jazz and won 2nd prize in the Detroit Jazz Competition in 2016. She joined Delfeayo Marsalis's Uptown Jazz Orchestra in New Orleans and was invited to Heritage & New Orleans Jazz Festival with her own band. She played with Jason Marsalis, Wessell Anderson, Kengo Nakamura from Wynton Marsalis's Family, had recorded for her debut album with them.
On October 5 Aya Takazawa (trumpet) brings her band, Ringori-rappa (with Hirokazu Yamaguchi guitar & Fumie Chiba piano) for a live jazz session in the Main Bar. And remember, it’s free. No cover charge. No music charge. You just can’t beat SNL for an exciting, entertaining night out in Tokyo.
Coming Up:
- September 28 Steve Gardner
- October 5 Aya Takazawa & Ringori-rappa
- October 12 Ensemble Classica Trio (Romano Pucci flute, Fabio Spruzzola guitar and Ivano Brambilla clarinet & mandolin)
- October 19 Kenneth Andrew
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