Two award-winning female Japanese jazz composers, Asuka Kakitani and Noriko Ueda, have joined forces to form Sakura Jazz Orchestra. Named for Japan’s most iconic flower, the cherry blossom, Sakura ...

Twenty three years after their first studio date Blue Monk (Enja, 1993), Japanese pianist Aki Takase and American saxophonist David Murray reunite in Switzerland. There has been one live recording ...

Sakura Maki is a saxophonist who was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She started playing trumpet in her elementary school band at the age of 9 and started playing jazz tenor saxophone at the age of ...