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Hina Oikawa

Born: February 28, 1998

Hina Oikawa is a saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and tanka poet born and raised in Japan, now based in Queens, NY. Her primary projects integrate the expressive rhythm of Japanese poetry with large-ensemble jazz composition. In addition to leading her own ensembles, she has performed in programs presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center and at venues including Blue Note Tokyo, Smalls, the Jazz Gallery, Drom, Symphony Space, and Ornithology jazz club, establishing herself as a distinctive voice in the city’s vibrant jazz scene.

As the leader of her own ensemble, the Hina Oikawa Short Songs Band, she presented her original project Short Songs at Culture Lab LIC in February 2025 — a program uniting Japanese poetic tradition and modern jazz expression.

Short Songs

By Hina Oikawa

Label: Tiny Storage Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Introduction (comp. Hina Oikawa); Manhattan (comp. Hina Oikawa); Broken Meter (comp. Naoya Ogura); Yuba no Kuni [湯葉の国] (lyrics: Hina Oikawa / comp. Naoya Ogura); You Are Still Here (comp. Hina Oikawa); Beyond the Night, Swallowing the Morning (comp. Hina Oikawa); Summer Song (comp. Dave Brubeck / arr. Hina Oikawa); Short Songs (comp. Hina Oikawa / arr. Naoya Ogura); Thirty-One Syllables (comp. Hina Oikawa)