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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.
Return of the Light
By Joe Elefante
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Jazz for Dummies; Mudita; Return of the Light; Cromwell; Ankara Blues; Nobly Born; Don’t
Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder); Simple Girl; Loving Kindness; Sore on the Floor; Some
Other Blues.
Identity
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Emperor’s Stride; Alishan Girl; A Town with an Ocean View; City of Sadness; Anh Đâu Em Đó; Dahil Sa Iyo;
Magpie’s New Year’s Day; Ringo Oiwake; Moonlight Densetsu; Tank!; Bèo Dạt Mây Trôi.
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’.
Joe Elefante's Wheel of Dharma: Return of the Light
by Jack Bowers
The second act of Joe Elefante's laudable jazz career was born in tragedy: the loss in 2024 of his wife of sixteen years to cancer. It was then that Elefante, who once led the world-class Joe Elefante Big Band, decided to leave his long-time position as a schoolteacher and return to his first love, jazz, and ...
Ringo Oiwake
Album: Identity
By AAPI Jazz Collective
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 04:37
Meet Alto Saxophonist Erena Terakubo
by Sanford Josephson
For many years, trumpeter/educator Tiger Okoshi has been directing the Hokkaido Grove Jazz Camp during summers in Sapporo, Japan. At one of his first camps, he met a 12-year-old alto saxophonist named Erena Terakubo."She was shining, and she knew it," he recalled. “She was determined, driven, and already sounded like a young Charlie Parker."
Peter Lin AAPI Jazz Collective: Identity
by Jack Bowers
Taiwanese-American trombonist Peter Lin formed the New York-based AAPI Jazz Collective in 2018 to amplify the voice of jazz musicians of Asian American and Pacific Island lineage. Identity, the group's debut album, confirms that those voices are essentially strong, clear and eloquent. AAPI's core quintet places Lin out front with alto saxophonist Erena ...
The Empress: Square One
by Jack Bowers
The Empress is a New York City-based co-op septet whose front line consists of four saxophonists. Based on its title, the assumption is that Square One is the group's first recording as a unit. The Empress is the idea of award-winning saxophonist Pureum Jin, who enlisted the renowned German writer and saxophonist Michael Lutzeier to arrange ...
Laura Dreyer, Hiromi, Sharel Cassity, Andrea Brachfeld, Lorraine Feather, Sasha Berliner & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast wraps up Women's History Month with new releases from Laura Dreyer, Hiromi, Sharel Cassity, Andrea Brachfeld, Lorraine Feather and Sasha Berliner, with birthday shoutouts to Aretha Franklin, Sarah Vaughan, Pearl Bailey, Jackie Warren, Vanisha Gould, Rachel Therrien, Chelsea Baratz, Renee Rosnes, Yelena Eckemoff, Sivan Arbel, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists ...
