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Erena Terakubo

Erena Terakubo is a multi-talented saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator from Sapporo, Japan. She is an international sensation whose career performances stretch five different continents. While still in high school, Terakubo released her debut album "North Bird," a collaboration with Kenny Barron, Christian McBride, Lee Pearson, and Peter Bernstein, which reached #1 on the Japanese jazz charts and was awarded Swing Journal's Gold Disc. Her broad experience has inspired five albums since. Recently, Terakubo has been sharing her expertise by teaching workshops at U.S. universities and touring Europe and Japan.

Square One

By Pureum Jin

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Instant Composure; But Not for Me; Caravan; Everything Happens to Me; Bolivia; Stablemates; Mr. Syms; Nica’s Dream; Milestones; Reminiscing; Yearnin’.

The Empress, 3 Cohens/WDR Big Band, Nnenna Freelon, Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson and Kaisa's Machine

by Mary Foster Conklin
March 24, 2025

This broadcast includes new releases from The Empress (Pureum Jin, Lauren Sevian, Erena Terakubo, Chelsea Baratz), 3 Cohens/WDR Big Band, Nnenna Freelon, Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson and Kaisa's Machine, with birthday shoutouts to Shirley Scott, Carol Sloane, Jeanie Bryson, Anne Mette Iversen, Mark Murphy, Tomoko Ohno, Arooj Aftab and Bobby McFerrin. Happy listening and please support the ...

Erena Terakubo: From Sapporo to Jazz Stardom

by Stephen Braunginn
March 4, 2025

Alto saxophonist sensation Erena Terakubo from Sapporo, Japan, began her recording career early, releasing her first album when she was only 15 years old. Discover how a sax-playing M&M doll kicked off her journey to jazz stardom. She recorded her first album with Kenny Barron, Christian McBride, and Peter Bernstein while still in the 10th grade. ...

OR

By Tracy Yang

Label: Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: OR (Operating Room); Sea of Clouds--Scene Taiwan Collection I; Sea Swell--Scene Taiwan Collection II; Melting Arctic; A Step to My Dream; MMXXI suite: I. Uncertainty; MMXXI suite: Healing; MMXXI suite: III. Reunited.

Wheel of Dharma

By Joe Elefante

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Bad Dancing; Rocky; The One Who Knows; The Earth Is on Fire; Samadhi; Lion's Eyes.

A New Beat

By Ulysses Owens, Jr.

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: Sticks; Better Days; London Towne; Until I See You Again; Soulful; Heart Full Of Rhythm; Bird Lives; Helen's Song.

Tracy Yang: OR

by Angelo Leonardi
December 9, 2024

Il percorso biografico e artistico di Tracy Yang ha molte affinità con quello di Jihye Lee, l'ormai nota arrangiatrice e bandleader coreana che s'è imposta con i significativi album Infinite Connections e Daring Mind. Tracy Yang viene da Taiwan, dove lavorava come radiologa. Come Jihyie Lee ha appreso in un decennio le tecniche dell'orchestrazione ...

Introducing Pianist Esteban Castro

by Sanford Josephson
April 1, 2024

This article first appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. Esteban Castro's parents gave him a toy piano when he was three years old. “I would just kind of gravitate toward it a lot," he recalled. “When I was four, they rented a piano and started getting me lessons. I got into jazz because I would ...

Ulysses Owens, Jr. and Generation Y: A New Beat

by Jack Bowers
March 19, 2024

The rhythms presented on award-winning drummer Ulysses Owens Jr.'s latest album are not exactly A New Beat, as they have been heard in various configurations for at least eighty years or more, but they do provide a plausible indication of the path that Art Blakey's legendary Jazz Messengers would presumably have followed had Blakey lived into ...