Jazz Articles about Miho Hazama

About Miho Hazama

Radio & Podcasts

Miho Hazama, People In Orbit, Joel Lyssarides, Peter Erskine & more

by Marek J. Śmietański
June 16, 2026

The 126th episode presents a wide selection of April releases, offering a rich and stylistically diverse snapshot of contemporary creative music. Compared to the previous month, the program expands further in terms of genre range and aesthetic approaches, moving fluidly between spacious Nordic-inspired soundscapes, experimental and electronic--inflected improvisation, and more tradition-rooted American jazz idioms. The selection highlights the global nature of today's jazz landscape, with contributions from artists around the world and a strong emphasis on both emerging voices and ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Music From Miho Hazama, Arturo Sandoval, Elsa Nilsson And More

by Bob Osborne
June 11, 2026

This playlist explores the intersection of narrative composition and global rhythmic traditions, anchored by the rich textures of modern jazz. The journey begins with the structured, cinematic layers of Miho Hazama and Jacques Kuba Séguin's olfactory-inspired trilogy, before shifting into the vibrant Afro-Cuban and Mambo energies of Arturo Sandoval and Tumbao Bravo. Throughout the selection, the mood oscillates between the intimate, melancholic beauty of Elsa Nilsson and Norma Winstone and the rhythmic complexity of Adam Rudolph and Onilu. It culminates ...

Interview

Miho Hazama: Where Groove Meets Orchestra

by Angelo Leonardi
May 30, 2026

Since making her debut in 2013 at the helm of M_Unit with Journey to Journey, Miho Hazama has built a body of work that has firmly established her among the leading orchestrators of her generation. Over the past decade, the Japanese composer and conductor has collaborated extensively with European orchestras, and since 2020 she has served as one of the three chief conductors of the Metropole Orkest, alongside Vince Mendoza and Jules Buckley. Among the many ...

Album Review

Miho Hazama: Frames

by Neil Duggan
May 21, 2026

The Frames project, led by Grammy-nominated Japanese composer and conductor Miho Hazama, features the Danish Radio Big Band. It is inspired by the band's lineage of previous musical directors, who have included Thad Jones, Palle Mikkelborg, Bob Brookmeyer and the late Jim McNeely, under whom Hazama studied upon her move to New York. The album carries a dedication to his memory. Hazama, a prolific composer with a substantial body of work for numerous international orchestras, explains the background ...

Interview

Miho Hazama e la Metropole Orkest

by Angelo Leonardi
May 18, 2026

Da quando ha debuttato nel 2013 alla guida del suo ensemble M_Unit registrando Journey to Journey, il percorso artistico di Miho Hazama è stato un crescendo di acclamati lavori, che l'hanno imposta tra i massimi orchestratori della sua generazione. Da tempo la compositrice e bandleader giapponese collabora con orchestre europee e dal 2020 è uno dei tre direttori della Metropole Orkest accanto a Vince Mendoza e Jules Buckley. Nei mesi scorsi, a capo della big band olandese ha ...

Radio & Podcasts

Miho Hazama: The Conductor Who Leads With Love

by Lawrence Peryer
May 5, 2026

Today we're putting The Tonearm's needle on composer and chief conductor of the Danish Radio Big Band, Miho Hazama. Miho grew up inside the Yamaha music education system in her native Japan. She moved to New York to study jazz composition at the Manhattan School of Music under Jim McNeely and has spent her career as one of the most distinctive voices in large-ensemble writing. Her work includes her own chamber jazz group m_unit, conducting posts with the ...

Album Review

Metropole Orkest: Arakatak

Read "Arakatak" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
March 30, 2026

L'olandese Metropole Orkest celebra il suo ottantesimo anniversario evitando di compiacersi del ricchissimo e prestigioso passato ma vivendo la contemporaneità in costante tensione innovativa. Per l'occasione pubblica esclusivamente in vinile, Arakatak, un sontuoso doppio LP contenente otto composizioni commissionate a Morris Kliphuis, Vince Mendoza, Donny McCaslin, Miho Hazama, Tineke Postma, Mark Guiliana, Shai Maestro e Louis Cole. La conduzione orchestrale è di Miho Hazama. Ottanta anni di storia fanno dell'orchestra olandese un unicum nella musica extra-colta in Europa ...