Bass Ensembleベースアンサンブル

Jean Laurent Sasportes & Jacki Job + Doublebass Ensemble

Featuring:
Tetsu Saitoh, Takashi Seo, Pearl Alexander, Kazuhiro Tanabe, Masao Tajima ( doublebass )
Jean Laurent Sasportes & Jacki Job ( dance )



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Tetsu Saitoh

double bassist
Tetsu Saitoh is a Tokyo-based double bass player with a mesmerizing and technically brilliant style unhampered by convention. His hauntingly abstract improvisations combine tango, jazz, contemporary classical and traditional Asian music. For the last 15 years, Saitoh has been touring regularly in Europe and the United States, performing both solo and in collaboration with a wide range of highly respected musicians and performers from around the globe. Saito’s free-spirited
approach to the double bass is sure to enchant both musical connoisseurs and newcomers.
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Takashi Seo

double bassist
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Pearl Alexander

double bassist
After graduating from the University of Michigan where she studied double bass performance under Diana Gannett, Pearl moved to Japan to focus on free improvisation.
While living in Niigata Prefecture, she performed with butoh dance, visual artists and jazz musicians. Currently living near Tokyo, she has collaborated with mori-shige, Shintaro Hirahara, Marcos Fernandes, Yoko Arai, and Yumiko Tanaka, former Dairakudakan dancer Jun Wakabayashi, Daisuke Fuwa, Gianni Gebbia, Yoichiro Kita and Tetsu Saitoh, among others.
She played on two modern music recordings while at the University of Michigan. One of those recordings, Songs of Innocence and Experience conducted by Leonard Slatkin, won 3 Grammy Awards in 2006.
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Kazuhiro Tanabe

double bassist

Masao Tajima

double bassist
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Jean Laurent Sasportes

dancer
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Jacki Job

dancer
In 1995, Jacki Job launched her independent solo career and won the FNB/Vita “Best Female Dancer” Award. The following year she was awarded with the FNB/Vita “Young Choreographer’s Grant. At that time, with the aim of performing outside of South Africa, she created a solo work that focused on her identity as a woman of mixed cultural heritage. This work, entitled “Daai za-Lady”, has made a significant impact on her personal artistic style and approach to performance. To date, traces of this piece constantly appear in her work.
She has taught at the Rambert Ballet School in London and the University of Cape Town. In 1998 she officially renamed her company name to Spiral Productions and concentrated on creatingwork that mixed performance genres, challenging the audience and herself to rebel against the notion of irrefutably labelling work. To date, she has choreographed more than 40 original full-length works and performed in at least 8 countries.
Based in Tokyo since 2005, Jacki Job also became a full recipient of the Bunko Cho Fellowship Program in the same year.