Sachi Hayasaka

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Sachi Hayasaka ( Japanese 早 坂 沙 知 , Hayasaka Sachi ; born February 26, 1960 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz musician ( alto and soprano saxophone ).

Sachi Hayasaka first took piano lessons from the age of five before starting to play alto saxophone in the school's wind orchestra as a teenager. She studied jazz and classical saxophone playing at Tamagawa University, performed in Yosuke Yamashita's Panja Swing Orchestra and in 1983 with Yoshiaki Fujikawa . In the 1990s, Hayasaka worked with her band Stir Up! (among others with Toshiki Nagata , Kenichi Tsunoda , Tomohiro Yahiro , Yosuke Yamashita, Tatsuya Sato ), with whom she presented three albums, including 2.26 , which was released by Enja . In 2003 she released her album Minga with her own compositions on Tzadik . She also played with Satoko Fujii and Yuriko Mukojima .

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