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music starts 表演 : 9.30pm

【Takashi Kudo(p)】

Takashi Kudo was born on May 22, 1968.
He has studied with Katsuya Tamura(p), Edward Bedner (p), Joanne Brackeen(p), George Garzone (ts), Hal Crook (tb), Bill Davies (p), Bill Pierce (ts)and others.

He has recorded several CDs and has played with Jerry Bergonzi (ts),Christopher Hollyday (as), Dave Barraza (ts), Phil Grenadier (tp), Larry Grenadier (b), Eddie Henderson (tp), Tetsuro Kawashima (ts), Seiji Tada(as), Masato Imazu (ts), Rei Takagi (vo), Issei Igarashi (tp) and manyothers.

He was bestowed the Best All Around Keyboardist Award in 1996 and the Piano Department Chairman’s Award in 1994 at the Berklee College of Music, as well as the Outstanding Musicianship Award in 1990 and the Uchida Scholarship Award in 1990 in Japan.

Takashi currently lives in Fukuoka, Japan where he maintains a busy schedule performing and touring both as the leader of his own band and as a much in demand sideman. Red… Black… marks his first recording as a leader featuring the legendary bassist Larry Grenadier and who seems to be the house drummer for the Hao Records label, Scott Goulding. Red… Black… was recorded at Sear Sound in NYC by legend in his own right, engineer James Farber.

DISCOGRAPHY(as a leader)

“Red…Black … ” w/Larry Grenadier (b),Scott Goulding (ds) (2002)
“Gratitude”w / Seiji Sakai(ds) (May 22, 2011)
“DOUQ TRIO FINAL at Jazz Inn New COMBO”w / Hajime Niwa(b),Takashi Sugawara(ds) (December 1, 2012)

【Seiji Sakai(ds)】

Starting on drums at the age of 10. He is active to play the drums of all genres, such as Rock, Fusion, Jazz and so on. Recently Seiji plays many gigs in Yamaguchi, Hiroshima, Fukuoka.