Takuya Hirao

Takuya Hirao was born in Kumamoto, Japan in 1977. His carrier started in 2004, he performed Jazz Tap Dance at Jazz Club, Hotel’s lounge, Dance club and Halls based on Tokyo until 2010. His organized Japan Tour succeeded in 2006 and 2007. Since 2006, He started to learn Jazz arrangement and jazz saxophone, and arranged a lot of Jazz tunes for tap dance stage. This experience made my performance varied and gorgeous. Other tap dance team and organization accept these tap dancing ability and music arrangement ability. He started to provide arranged tunes and tap dance choreography for them. In 2010, He moved to NYC and started to run his business for Jazz and Tap dance industries. Since 2014, He started new carrier as Jazz saxophone player. He learned Jazz from jazz legends Seleno Clarke(Master of Hammond Organ), Mickey Bass(Master of bass), Mel Davis(Master of Hammond Organ), and plays with grate musicians; Seleno Clarke, Mel Davis, David Lee Jones, Gerald Brazel, Marvin Horne, Nathan Lucas, John Smith, Russell Carter, Wayne Henderson, Victor Wise, Tommy Morimoto and more musicians based on NYC, and also played at world famous Cotton Club Big Band named "Cotton Club All Stars" and showmans in Harlem NYC. He recorded his first album "All in one diversity 3" with Mel Davis(Hammond Organ), Marvin Horne (Guitar) and Russell Carter (Drums) on March in 2018. The album is dedicated to Seleno Clarke. He played Jazz, Blues, Ballard, Pops and Gospel. The CD has been released on January 1st in 2020. In 2020, his YouTube channel accomplished obtaining over 10,000 subscribers. Introducing new saxophone accessory, computer music gears and sharing techniques, knowledges of playing saxophone what he learned and more entertainment videos. Endorser Artist of Harry Hartmann's Fiber Reed and Nadir Saxwinds Dave Gurdala Saxophone Accessories.

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