Dennis Frese (drums)

Born in Hannover, Germany. Graduated from Berklee College of Music with honors. After returning to Germany, he has performed with Branford Marsalis, Jesse Davis, Michel Reis, Julian & Roman Wasserfuhr, Martin Sasse, and others, and has expanded his performance activities throughout Europe while also achieving success in the field of education. He has been based in Tokyo since 2009. His main performers include Makoto Ozone, Sadao Watanabe, Seiko Matsuda, Lisa Ono, Seiichi Nakamura, Tomonao Hara, Kengo Nakamura, Takana Miyamoto, Dan Nimmer, Jun Abe, and Elena Terakubo. He has participated in recordings with Miki Imai, Eisaku Yoshida, Kanji Ishimaru, and JuJu. He has also appeared on music programs and commercials. He released his first album from 78LABEL, which is run by Bin Konno. He is currently a lecturer in the jazz course at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, where he also teaches the next generation of musicians. He is an endorser of Canopus, Zildjan, and Regal Tip.

Jima Kano (drums)

His dramatic drumming, sometimes dynamic and sometimes sensitive, enthrals his fellow performers and audiences. Born in Osaka in 1975. Influenced by his music-loving parents, he became interested in drums from an early age. At the age of 19, he moved to the United States and entered the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles. After graduating, he continued to play a wide range of sessions in Jazz, Latin, Funk, and Pops, mainly in LA, and participated in groups such as Shannon McNally, Dale Fielder, Rafael Moreira, and Red Young. He returned to Japan in 2000. He began his activities in Japan by joining the Tanaka Takehisa Trio, and has participated in groups such as PINK BONGO and Takahashi Getao CRYSTAL JAZZ LATINO. He has demonstrated his skills in a variety of styles of sessions, live performances, and recordings.

Kazuhiro Odagiri (drums)

Born in 1987 in Yokohama to a musical family, he grew up surrounded by music from an early age. He started playing percussion at the age of 12 and drums at 17, and studied classical and jazz at the Kunitachi College of Music. His talent was discovered by some of Japan's leading musicians, including Sadao Watanabe (sax) and Makoto Ozone (pf), and he was awarded the Yamashita Yosuke Prize at the time of graduation. He then studied abroad at Berklee College of Music in Boston as a scholarship student, graduating at the top of his class. While at the university, he performed at Blue Note NY, Beantown Jazz Festival, WBGO Jazz 88.3FM, and moved to New York after graduating. He has performed with a variety of musicians across genres, including Maria Schneider, Yellow Jackets, Koichi Sugiyama, Takuya Kuroda, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. With a foundation in jazz, he is involved in funk, rock, R&B, reggae, Brazilian, Afro-Cuban and Madagascar music, and his genre-free performance style has attracted attention from all over. He is an overseas artist contracted with "CANOPUS" and endorsed by Nonaka Trading Istanbul "Agop".

Mayuko Katakura (piano)

Born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture in 1980. Started classical piano at a young age. Switched to jazz piano when he entered Senzoku Gakuen Junior College, studying piano under Masaaki Imaizumi. After graduating from the college with top honors, he received a scholarship to enter Berklee College of Music in 2002. While studying there, he performed with Christian Scott and Dave Santoro at live houses in Boston. In 2004, he graduated with the piano achievement award. After graduating, he performed with Dick Oates and Jerry Bergandy, and also appeared as Dave Santoro's pianist at the Litchfield Jazz Festival in August 2004. In September 8, he entered the Juilliard School. He studied piano with Kenny Barron and ensemble with Carl Allen and Ben Wolff. While still a student, she performed with Hank Jones, Donald Harrison, Carl Allen, Ben Wolf, Eddie Henderson, Victor Goins, Dominic Farinacci, and others. In 2005, she won the Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Piano Competition, and in May of the following year, she performed at the same jazz festival with her own trio. She was also selected as a semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition held in September 9. She is currently active as a member of her own trio, as well as the Yamaguchi Masafumi Quartet, the Osaka Masahiko Group, the Ito Kimiko Group, the Takeuchi Nao Quartet, and the MOST. In September 2006, she released her leader album "Inspiration." She won the New Star Award at the 5rd Swing Journal Jazz Disc Awards. In September 2006, she released her second album "Faith."

Junichi Sato (bass)

Born in Tokyo. Discovered jazz in high school and started playing bass. Graduated from the Kunitachi College of Music, Department of Performance and Creation, Jazz Bass Major. Studied bass under Yosuke Inoue and Ken Kaneko. Selected for the JFC All Star Big Band at the Jazz Festival at Conservatory for two consecutive years in 2016 and 2017, he performed at Tokyo Jazz. He has performed with Makoto Ozone, Yosuke Yamashita, Takana Miyamoto, Steven Feifke, Eiji Kitamura, Eijiro Nakagawa, Yoshihiro Nakagawa, Stafford Hunter, Akira Jimbo, Toru Takahashi, and Meg Okura. He currently plays acoustic and electric bass, mainly in Tokyo.

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Set list for 2/20 (Thu)