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Takuya Kuroda

Born: February 21, 1980

With his brilliant tone and passionate delivery, it’s no wonder that Japanese trumpeter Takuya Kuroda is veteran and mainstay of the world’s most competitive arena for live performance, New York City. A 2006 graduate of The New School’s Jazz & Contemporary Music program, Takuya has performed alongside some of the very best musicians (Junior Mance, Jose James, Greg Tardy, Andy Ezrin, Jiro Yoshida, Akoya Afrobeat, Valery Ponomarev Big Band) at some of the most important venues for live music (Radio City Music Hall, The Blue Note, The Village Underground, Sweet Rhythm, 55 Bar, SOBs)

Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. To Present Very Special 'Elden Ring' Jazz Music Streaming Event

October 19, 2022

Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. will present a very special Jazz music streaming event – broadcast live from Hollywood and featuring Grammy Award-winning musician Kenny Garrett in collaboration with up-and-coming talent Takuya Kuroda—on December 3, 2022. The “Elden Ring: A Night in the Lands Between” music event will be held at Hollywood, California’s famed Bourbon Room ...

Chelsea Carmichael, Takuya Kuroda, James Taylor Quartet, OHMA & Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 30, 2022

We are back with another set list chockful of exciting new and upcoming albums, from the cinematic atmospheres of the James Taylor Quartet and the mysterious Louis Fontane, to the explorations of Sam Gendel or Hailey Niswanger's and Mia Garcia's OHMA; from the physchedelic journeys of Wax Machine and Kalaha, to the sounds of London's Total ...

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2022

by Mike Chamberlain
July 23, 2022

Various venues Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 5-9, 2022 All hail the return of live music! After a three-year break imposed by Covid-19, the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (FIJM) was back this year with a scaled-down but user-friendly slate of 350 concerts, about 2/3 ...

Eight Cylinder Bigband

By Matthias Bublath

Label: Enja Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Bigband Intro Joint; Matight Intro; Nice Green Bo; Eight Cylinder; Gospel Song; Home Cookin'; Return to the Source; Dump the Goose; Sad Belt; Mr. Scales; Outro Blow; Bolero.

Fly Moon Die Soon

By Takuya Kuroda

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Fade; ABC; Change; Do No Why; Fly Moon Die Soon; Moody; Sweet Sticky Things; Tell Me A Bedtime Story; TKBK.

Still Time to Quit

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2020
Track listing: That's All You Get; Ready, Steady, Here You Go!; Shockingly Effective; Toasty; Valedictorian Driver; Happy Tired; The Nightmares; Bury Me In Times Square.

Matt Ulery, Fred Pallem, Sylvain Darrifourq, Tim Garland & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 26, 2020

For the second part of this week's exploration of new and upcoming releases, we Focus. As in... we compare and contrast the music from that iconic 'saxophone & strings' album by Stan Getz with the two more recent CDs—both entitled Re Focus—by Tim Garland and Sylvain Rifflet which Getz's 1961 masterpiece inspired. The latter was orchestrated ...

Takuya Kuroda: Fly Moon Die Soon's Delicious Future-Funk Throwback

by Rob Garratt
September 17, 2020

Last time All About Jazz spoke to Takuya Kuroda, just days after the release of his smoky, neo-soul-styled breakthrough Rising Sun (Blue Note, 2014), the Japanese trumpeter was asked what he wanted to record next. “I see myself doing more of a straight-ahead thing," he said at time. “I might do an album with strings."

Matthias Bublath: Eight Cylinder Bigband

by Edward Blanco
May 1, 2020

German pianist and Hammond B3 organist Matthias Bublath realizes a long-held passion of recording his own big-band and so, after eleven albums to date, Eight Cylinder Bigband finally comes to the fore in splashy audacious fashion, encompassing a musical spectrum which ranges from blues, gospel and soul/funk to Afro-Caribbean flavors documented on twelve swinging compositions. The ...