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During my stay in New York City between 1984 and 1998, I had the opportunity to play with great loft jazz musicians

such as Billy Bang, William Parker, Cecil Taylor, etc. who of course expanded my range of musical expression.

Since 1998 I live in Berlin,  organizing and playing  in a number of projects (Jazz and Latin bands, theater).

All those years I have been composing different styles of music,  be it  Jazz, Latin, Funk, Blues, .... then some years ago, I realized that a lot of my compositions sounded very Japanese. I did not intend to write Japanese music - it just came out naturally. I founded “The JAPS” with all Japanese musicians who understand my music spontaneously. We play my compositions and also some Japanese folk music in the style of Jazz.

Lately other artists - some of them not Japanese - have joined us , and the JAPS are evolving their style according to the input of all the members. If it has to be categorized at all, you may hear our music as "Japanese Jazz" , with the emphasis on improvisation, freestyle and other features as they occur naturally in our combined performance.       

 

 February 2017   Akira Ando

Our first CD  Jazz As Pure Spirit  is available on CD and digital world now !!!
You can find it in YouTube , Spotify , Amazon, and everywhere.

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Brand new single cut "MOUJA" is now available at Bandcamp.

                                         Check it out !!!

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   Concerts

 

11.09.2016

ADIJAZZ FESTIVAL

Lodzi Poland

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