Eugene x Yujiro Session and NTU reunion

Entrance Fee 門票: $200

music starts 表演 : 9.30pm

 

Guitar– Eugene Shimoda (from Japan)

Bass– Yujiro  Yoshimine (from japan)

Guitar– Shih Chun Lee 李世鈞

Flute–  Jenni Tsai

Drums– Takeshi Sakamoto

YUJIRO YOSHIMINE- Bass

Born and Raised in Kaoshima, Japan, Yujiro Yoshimine started playing the electric bass at age 14.

After graduating from high school, he switched to acoustic bass to play jazz. He took lessons from one of the best jazz piano player in Japan, Ryoichi Tajima.

In 2003, He moved to Texas to receive his Bachelors of Jazz Studies at the world renowned University of North Texas. While he was in school, he studied with Professor  Lynn Seaton., and performed in a lot of big bands and small groups in school. At same time, he was active bass player in Dallas- Fort Worth  jazz scene. He performed in most of jazz venue in the area such as Sanbuca Jazz cafe,Scat jazz Lounge,  House of Blues Dallas, and Brooklyn jazz cafe to name a few. He also performed at Denton Art and Jazz festival.

He was the host bass player of Sandaga Market jam session over one year, and performed  with wolrd wide jazz legends such as  Bernard Wright (Miles Davis Band , Marcus Miller) , Bobby Sparks (Marcus Miller), and Shelly Carroll (Duke Ellington Orchestra, Tonny Bennet ).

He finished his undergraduate program at University of North Texas in 2009 summer. Right after that, he moved to New york city to further his  career in music. He has been active bass player and played in many jazz venues such as Puppets Jazz bar, shrine and Vox Pop to name a few.

now Yuji lives in tokyo japan plying with many musicians.

Eugene Shimoda​-​ ​Guitar​​

Begin to play the college jazz guitar

T- Square bassist Shingo Tanaka. Bassist of PONTA BOX Masatoshi Mizuno.

Activities with them

It has also worked as arranger such as TV of BGM

In 2013, it performed a concert of attracting 1200 people in Nerima Bunka Kaikan in their own group.

In 2015,

he played with guitarist Allen Hinds.

Participation in japan tour of martin musaubach.

Jazz, FUNK, active in various fields such as R & B.

Many also played with foreign musicians, it is a guitarist, which is expected in the future