Takuya Kuroda

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Takuya Kuroda ( Japanese 黒 田 卓 也 , Kuroda Takuya ; born February 21, 1980 in Ashiya , Hyōgo Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz trumpeter and arranger .

Live and act

Takuya Kuroda first played in the school's big band . He only gained more jazz experience when he went to Kobe for jam sessions . In 2003 he moved to the USA, where he first attended a course at Berklee College of Music before moving to New York. There he studied at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music until he graduated in 2006. Since then, Kuroda has worked in the local jazz scene; stylistically based on Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown . His fellow student José James brought him to accompany him early on .

Kuroda's debut album While Bitter and High was released in 2010 . He worked u. a. with Junior Mance (piano), Greg Tardy (saxophone), Rob Swift (DJ), Jirō Yoshida (guitar), Andy Ezrin, Akoya Afrobeat and the Valery Ponomarev Big Band. He has also worked on albums by Jose James ( Blackmagic ) and Jiro Yoshida ( Cut Back , Made In New York ), China Moses , Matthias Bublath ( Eight Cylinder Bigband ) and the Japanese J-Pop musician JuJu ( Wonderful Life and My Life ), for which he arranged the wind section . Kuroda works with the band Chicken Gravy , which he also leads, a formation in the spectrum between jazz, soul and funk and a jazz quartet. In 2014 his CD Rising Son was released on Blue Note Records . The 2016 studio album Zigzagger was released on Concord Records . In 2019 Blue Note released the album Blue Note Voyage by Takuya Kuroda / Akihiro Nishiguchi / May Inoue / Jun Miyakawa / Ai Kuwabara / Ryuta Tsunoda / Tomo Kanno and Shun Ishiwaka.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ト ラ ン ペ ッ タ ー 黒 田 卓 也 . (No longer available online.) In: Yomitime. April 6, 2007, archived from the original on December 10, 2016 ; Retrieved June 1, 2011 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.yomitime.com
  2. ↑ a b 黒 田 卓 也 Takuya Kuroda (tp). (PDF; 377 kB) (No longer available online.) In: takuyakuroda.com. Archived from the original on January 24, 2011 ; Retrieved May 31, 2011 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / stuff.takuyakuroda.com
  3. ↑ a b c about. (No longer available online.) In: takuyakuroda.com. Archived from the original on January 19, 2011 ; accessed on May 31, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / takuyakuroda.com
  4. ↑ Information from National Public Radio
  5. ↑ Information on Kuroda's website ( memento of the original from January 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / takuyakuroda.com
personal data
SURNAME Kuroda, Takuya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 黒 田 卓 也 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz trumpeter and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Ashiya , Hyogo Prefecture