Born in Kobe, Japan, trumpeter Miki Hirose relocated in 2003, and adopted New York as his home. He's performed with jazz legends organist Dr. Lonnie Smith, and saxophonists Frank Wess and Benny Golson.His debut as a leader, A Day In New York was released on JAZZ LAB records.
Recorded with the David White Jazz Orchestra on: Flashpoint and The Chase
Ron Harter is a graduate of the Purchase College Conservatory of Music. He regularly performs with his own group, Triad Brass in the New York City area.
Recorded with the David White Jazz Orchestra on: Live at Midday Jazz
Volker Goetze is an international touring performer, composer, filmmaker and media artist. He has performed and presented his work at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Paris Jazz Festival, WDR Cologne, Gasteig Munich, Jazz-A-Vienne, World Festival of Sacred Music (Los Angeles), Caixa Forum Madrid and the Opera Festival in Munich. His work fuels cross-cultural dialogue, incorporates multiple disciplines and utilizes cutting edge technology. His compositions derive from folklore music, rock, jazz, contemporary music, classical as well as baroque music. He has been investigating the oral culture and storytelling of West Africa and its influences on jazz and black culture in America. GRIOT, a feature documentary about the oral music tradition in West Africa, is Volker Goetze's debut as a film director and has since developed into a multimedia performance documentary. Mr. Goetze has held many master classes and was invited as a panelist by the Apollo Theater and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
His 2012 album, Sira, was released on Motema Records.
Recorded with the David White Jazz Orchestra on: Flashpoint
Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Pablo spent his childhood years in northern Arizona on the Navajo Indian Reservation before moving to Billings, Montana. After graduating from High School, he studied classical trumpet with Robert Levy and received a Bachelor of Music degree from Lawrence University. After pursuing a year of Graduate study in classical trumpet under Dennis Najoom at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he moved to New Orleans, where he studied with Terence Blanchard, Clyde Kerr Jr. and Ed Petersen, and received a Masters Degree in Jazz Studies from the University of New Orleans. Additionally, he attended the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Residency at the Kennedy Center in 2007 and also participated in the Banff Centre’s Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music in 2009, led by jazz icon Dave Douglas.
He has appeared across the United States and Europe including New York, Seattle, Portland, Omaha, New Orleans, Washington DC, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Poland. He has also performed with acts such as Michael Buble, Josh Groban, Gladys Knight, and the Temptations.
His latest album as a leader, Rubicon, was released in 2014.
Recorded with the David White Jazz Orchestra on: The Chase and Live at Midday Jazz
The youngest of six girls in a musical family, this Iowa farmer’s daughter began playing music at an early age and by age 10, she latched onto the trumpet. She double majored in Music and Anthropology at the University of Iowa. While receiving a Bachelor of Arts Degree, she spent a semester of field study in Senegal, West Africa. She studied ethnomusicology, learned African drumming and dance, and toured with local bands.
As a guest performer, Rau has toured West Africa, France, Canada, and the Dominican Republic with the Haitian Dance Troupe Choucoune, Zale Seck’s Mbalax Daagou, Groupe Ceddo, the Dominican Army Marine Band, and Batey Reggae Band. She can be seen in the recent Hollywood film My Sassy Girl, on the soundtrack of the film Betrayal with Gino Sitson, and in the upcoming film Dinner on the Riviera by T.D. White. Rau leads two of her own jazz projects, aRAUz and Sugah Rush.
Recorded with the David White Jazz Orchestra on: Flashpoint, The Chase and Live at Midday Jazz
Trumpeter and composer Michael Irwin grew up in New York City. Inspired by the sounds he heard throughout his youth, he studied Jazz at the Conservatory of Music at SUNY Purchase where he was the student of trumpet legend Jon Faddis.
Michael has contributed to albums by The Chieftains, Vampire Weekend, Brazilian Girls, The Budos Band, and TV on the Radio. A presence on the vibrant New York Jazz and new music scene, he has played in ensembles led by Kenny Wollesen, Federico Ughi, Joel Forrester and others. He also leads the Highline Jazz Quartet, a group exploring the American songbook and jazz canon, as well as The Brooklyn Bears, a trio that plays original and improvised compositions.
Michael’s musical interests have led to fruitful collaborations and international tours with singer/songwriters such as Elvis Perkins and Jocie Adams, The Walkmen, The Low Anthem, and The Woes.
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Born in 1976, Tokyo Japan. Ryo Sasaki started playing trumpet at the age of 15.
From 1996 to 1999 he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston MA and earned a college diploma as a performance major and studied privately with Darren Barrett, Tiger Okoshi and Charlie Lewis .
He has played and taught trumpet professionally in Tokyo, Japan since 2000.
The spring of 2006 he arrived in New York and has played many venues including The Blue Note, St Nick's pub, Minton's Playhouse and the Cotton club.
His latest album, Two For the Road, was released on Bluestet Records.
Recorded with the David White Jazz Orchestra on: Live at Midday Jazz
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