Entrance Fee 門票: $400   Including a drink ( 含一杯飲料)

music starts 表演 : 9.30pm

OCEANS THREE JAZZ TRIO

FROM OSAKA JAPAN

Yuji Hikita(ds)

Yuji is a drummer of jazz music. He has fantastic swingin’ feelings and his own “voice”.

Yuji was born and raised in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. His musical life had started with drums at age of thirteen. He attended Koyo conservatory of music and studied with Matsuda “Gori” Hiroshi in 1998-2000. Yuji was influenced by Dennis Chambers, Clarence Penn, Ed Thigpen, and Jeff Hamilton. After graduation, He became a professional drummer and started his career in west Japan area. And also He had visited The U.S many times to study Jazz music at the band stand during 2010-2015. In 2013, Yuji got his first big break studying with Jeff Hamilton in Seattle, U.S. He became a student of Jeff Hamilton from at that time.

Performed with: Tamir Hendelman(pf), Makoto Ozone(pf), Hideki Kon(pf), and many others…

Hitomi Nkayama(p)

Hitomi was born in Tokushima, Japan on Oct.10, 1988. She began studying piano at the age of seven, and also she has listened many jazz records from early childhood because her grandfather was the owner of jazz spot. She was deeply impressed by the jazz play of Sonny Rollins at the concert in elementary school days, and she has been keen on Oscar Peterson and Ray Bryant. She attended the Yamaha school of music in Osaka at eighteen years old, when she started to perform the many gigs with not only Japanese jazz musicians but also American ones( for example Ken Navarro, Paul Jackson). Her groove has been highly evaluated by many audience and jazz musicians and she released the first album ”Pardido” on Jan.10,2014.

Hiroshi Sato(b)

Hiroshi Sato started to play electric bass at the age of nineteen and took jazz, rock and blues gigs in university. He played bass at jazz spots, rock festivals and rock contest, but after he was graduated from medical school, he stopped to play bass because of the hard work as a cardiovascular surgeon. On 2011 he re-started to take the jazz live with Hitomi Nakayama. After then, he has shared the stages with great Japanese jazz musicians such as Rikiya Higashihara, Hiroshi Hata, Takumi Seino, Osamu Soda, Sachiko Ikuta, Hideki Kawamura, Akihiro Nishiguchi and Miki Hirose. His leader jazz unit  “ Oceans Jam”  has played contemporary jazz since Jan.22, 2015 .