ARTISTS | HANAZONO KUTCHAN JAZZ FESTIVAL JULY 5TH-6TH 2008

Tiffany (4:05PM)

http://www.tiffany-vocal.com/

Tiffany was born June 7th, in Los Angeles. Her father was an organ, piano and choir music director in a church, and her mother was in charge of solo singers when she was born. She learnt to talk and sing rhymes earlier than most kids. At university Tiffany studied Sociology and it took up most of her free time. At university she met a special teacher called Sonny Wilkinson and had an audition for that special class that only one student could enter. For 2 years, Tiffany learnt the basics of jazz and singing. She made her debut in October 2006, with The Nearness of You (VRCL18834). Her second album was released in May 2007, My Favourite Things (VRCL18838). On January 8th 2008, she appeared on Fuji Televison Kansai's Ashita no Kita Yoshio as a stage capturing orthodox Jazz singer. Her favourite musicians are Clifford Brown, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, and she loves singers like Shirley Horn, Dianne Rivers, and Cassandra Wilson.

kaimonokopi.com

Tiffany (vo),Toshiaki Yamada (p),Hibiki Kitagaki (b),Kenzi Tateyama (ds)

Ryoudo Uzaki and Akio Yokota (5:35PM)

http://www.ryudo.jp/

In 1973, he made Down Town Boogie Woogie Band and had 2 hits. One was called Nagasano Yokohama Yokosuka and the other was Smoking Boogie. In 1976, he made the award winning song Omoide Poroporo. Many of his sountracks to movies have also won awards. He wrote the music to the stage drama Rock Sonezaki Shinju that was produced by Yukio Abukawa, and it won the Yomuri Drama Award. In 2005, he recieved a special award and got into the top 10. He is both and actor and producer of music for other artists.

Akio Yokota
He was the guitarist in the band Fried Pride. When he was 15, he was taught by Ikuo Shiosaki. When he became 21, he put out his first album called Day by Day. In 1986, he released My Romance and Mysty2. Because his technique and style was so good he became one of the top guitarists quickly. He like to writes books and produces music now.

Ryoudo Uzaki (g,vo),Akio Yokota (g)

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Naoko Terai Quartet (7:15PM)

http://www.t-naoko.com/

She started to play the violin when she was 4. In 1988, she became a professional player. She played with jazz pianist Kenny Barron and quickly became popular. She has a very special style of playing music and every year releases an album. The albums always sell well and she has become a famous and popular Japanese jazz violin artist. In 2003, she played violin at the Suzuka F1 Circuit. From 2004, she was also begain to appear in television commercials. She won the Best Jazz Album of the Year on the Gold Disk Award Show, and has also won the Jazz Disk Award, etc...

Naoko Terai (vln),Naoki Kitajima(p),Kunio Tanaami (b),Tuyosi Nakazawa(ds)

Ben Winkelman Trio (4:05PM)

http://www.benwinkelman.com/

Ben Winkleman is from Melborne, Australia and is a stride pianist. He started to play the piano from when he was 10 years old, but his first peformance was as a drummer in a Punk band. He studied under Paul Grabowsky and Mickey Tucker, and graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts, in 1994. After that, he went to Europe and New York to play music. He is intrested in Cubian music, Drum and Base, Techno, Tango, and Classical music. He released a record on Jazzhead, in 2005. The CD was called Stomps, Pieces and Variations, and was nominated for the Bell Award. In 2006, he toured in Australia for 1 month and played 22 times. His second album The Spanish Tinge won the Best Independant Jazz Release Award. The Spanish Tinge was influenced by Jelly Roll Morton and Afro Cubian music, Brazillian rythems, Argentien Tango, and Yiddish Ballards. He also likes modernizing old jazz songs.

Ben Winkelman (p),Sam Anning(b),Ben Vanderwal (ds)

ORQUESTA DE LA LUZ (5:25PM)

http://laluz.jp

In 1984, they made an all Japanese Salsa band and peformed in a lot of shows. In 1987, Nora the main singer, took a demo tape to an agent in New York. After the agent listened to the demo, it was produced and released as on cd. They toured 22 countries, and went to places like Europe, America, and many others. They have recieved awards like the Japanese Record Award and also the World Peace Award. In 1997, the band broke up, but it got back together for a charity concert after 9/11. After that they started to play together again. In 2007, they peformed at the Rising Sun Rock Festival and had a large turn out of fans.

NORA (vo)	Yoshiro Suzuki (bgo)	Kazutoshi Shibuya (b)	Hitoshi Aikawa (tb)
JIN (vo)	Jin Miyamoto (cga)	Isao Sakuma (tp)	Daisuke Maeda (tb)
GENTA (tim)	Takaya Saito (p)	Yasushi Gotanda (tp)

Superstars of jazz fusion featuring
Roy Ayers,Tom Browne,Wayne Henderson of the Jazz Crusaders,Miki Howard,and Lonnie Liston smith. (7:15pm)

Roy Ayers
http://www.royayers.com/
Wayne Henderson
http://www.jazzcrusaders.com
Miki Howard
http://www.miki-howard.com
Lonnie Liston smith
http://www.lonnielistonsmith.net

He has been playing from the 70s and is called the King of Vibes. He was born in 1940, in L.A.. When he was 5, he was given his first set of vibe mallets by his hero Lionel Hampton, and after that he kept playing until he became a professional player. He joined the Chico Hamilton Orchestra. Then he made a band by himself. During that time he made lots of great fusion, disco and jazz funk tracks. In about 1980, he also made Acid Jazz, Rare Groove, and Hip Hop songs. He is a really cool artist and makes really good songs. He is still recording records and touring now.