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Grammy-nominated composer, Miho Hazama is one of the most promising and talented composers/arrangers of her generation. Lauded in Downbeat as one of “25 for the Future”, Miho developed her signature jazz chamber orchestra “munit”. Now having three full length releases on Universal Music Japan/ Sunnyside Records, Miho has written for and expertly showcased the abilities of guest artists such as Joshua Redman, Lionel Loueke, Stefon Harris, and Gil Goldstein, to name a few. Her debut album received the Jazz JAPAN rising star award, and she has been featured in such influential publications as Downbeat, The New York Times, NPR, JazzTimes among others
Frames
By Miho Hazama
Label: Edition Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: And The Door Unsealed; Rondo; LuLu; The Pioneer's Quest; Aura II; The First Notes.
The Tension Is Where the Music Lives: Miles Davis at 100, Part 3
by Kofi Adjepong-Boateng
Herbie Hancock Celebrates Miles Davis Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, CA August 19, 2026 The Hollywood Bowl began as a picnic ground called Daisy Dell, a canyon chosen for its acoustics, willed into being largely by women, chief among them Artie Mason Carter, a music teacher who believed music was for everyone ...
Miho Hazama, People In Orbit, Joel Lyssarides, Peter Erskine & more
by Marek J. Śmietański
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 ...
New Music From Miho Hazama, Arturo Sandoval, Elsa Nilsson And More
by Bob Osborne
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 ...
Miho Hazama: Where Groove Meets Orchestra
by Angelo Leonardi
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 ...
Miho Hazama: Frames
by Neil Duggan
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 ...
Miho Hazama e la Metropole Orkest
by Angelo Leonardi
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 ...
Miho Hazama: The Conductor Who Leads With Love
by Lawrence Peryer
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 ...
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