Erena Terakubo, Classic jazz Artist

Erena Terakubo began playing the alto saxophone at the age of nine, and was influenced by artists such as Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, and Sonny Stitt.

Born: Sapporo, Japan

Genre: Jazz

In 2010, Terakubo released her first album, “North Bird” with Kenny Barron, Christian McBride, Lee Pearson, and Peter Bernstein, through Japanese major label King Records. It marked No. 1 on the Japanese jazz charts and was awarded Swing Journal’s Gold Disc. Later that year, she performed with Ron Carter, Omar Hakim, and Will Boulware at the Tokyo Jazz Festival.

In 2011, she recorded her second album, “New York Attitude” with Kenny Barron, Ron Carter, Lee Pearson, and Dominick Farinacci. In the same year, she received a presidential scholarship from Berklee College of Music. She graduated in 2015, and moved to New York in the same year.

Terakubo has performed with Kenny Barron, Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb, Louis Hayes, Vincent Herring, Christian McBride, John Beasley’s Monk’estra, Lewis Nash, and Lenny White just to name a few. In addition, Terakubo has toured around the globe as a leader: Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, Australia, and the Middle East. She has also released 6-albums as a leader.

Biographical information courtesy of Erena Terakubo; for more reading see link below.

http://www.jamrice.co.jp/erena/en/bio/bio.html