JAZZ SUMMIT TOKYO SUMMER FESTIVAL 2015JAZZ SUMMIT TOKYO SUMMER FESTIVAL 2015

The young Jazz musicians, artists, media artists, and fashion designers being active worldwide will get togeher on this Jazz & Art Festival. Performance: JAZZ SUMMIT TOKYO Special Band feat. Erena Terakubo Akiko Nakayama MONONKUL Daichi Chohara Tomoaki Baba Ai Kuwabara Srv.Vinci Yumi Hosoi Momoko Nishimoto and more... JAZZ SUMMIT TOKYO Crowdfunding is [Here!! www.jazzsummit.net/news/2015/6/23](http://www.jazzsummit.net/news/2015/6/23/jazz-summit-tokyo-summer-festival-2015-) Artist Information: JAZZ SUMMIT TOKYO Special Band feat. Erena Terakubo  The one-time only quintet fronted by Erena Terakubo (A. Sax), a talented-woman who gains world recognition. The band consists of    May Inoue (Gt) - the rising star in the world of Jazz guitarists    Hideaki Kanazawa (Ba) - the leading person of the world of Jazz who played an important role as the bassist of Terumasa Hino Quintet for a long time    Shun Ishiwaka (Dr) - a genius who is active in many different genres and elected one of the "World's Five Drummers who will become leaders in the next generation" Together with the visual artists making free use of various latest technologies, they will open the door to the world of new Jazz experince. Akiko Nakayama  Combining the energy of movement and the vibrance of colors, Akiko Nakayama brings pictures to life. Called “Alive Painting”, Akiko depicts the resonance between shapes and textures by using different types of liquids, each with a unique characteristic. Her explorers three themes in her work.Firstly, the parallels of extremes.Secondly, the resonance between these extremes when they meet. Lastly, the importance of water in bridging these extremes. In recent years, she has performed solo using a colour-organ system, “Fluid2wave”. This system uses soundtracks and sound effects to accompany the digital projection of color painting. She also collaborates with artists from different genres. She not only performs in Japan, but also overseas. [Akiko Nakayama Homepage](http://akiko.co.jp/akikoweb/top.html) MONONKUL  Pop-unit Mononkul Vocals by Sara Yoshida Musical arrangements and lyrics by Ryuta Tsunota Mononnkul debuted in 2014 with their second album, "Minami-he". Later that year, they won the new-artists prize at the JazzJapan 2014 event with the same album. Daichi Chohara  [Homepage](http://chrdch.com/) Tomoaki Baba  Musician /Saxophone player /Art creater He was born in 1992 in Sapporo, Japan. He started his music career when he went to see a Jazz big band when he was 6. He was overwhelmed by beautiful music and sound. His one of the most influenced moment and the reason he started thinking about being musician was he met a professor/Trumpet player Tiger Okoshi. Tiger Okoshi had a workshop in Hokkaido with professors from Berklee College Of Music when Tomoaki was 13. Everything happened though the workshop was for him. He experienced beautiful music and word…like poems from Tiger Okoshi and he experienced huge power though Tiger Okoshi’s music and at the workshop, he was awarded full scholarship for Berklee 5 weeks program. That was the time that his mind was opened up for global career. He attended Berklee 5 weeks program in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 as a full scholarship student. Every year was amazing experiences but above all, 2010 was special for him. He was selected for Berklee Jazz workshop 2010 directed by Terri Lyne Carrington. She taught us many things what she learned and experienced in her music career. “What the roots of music is” “What the role of musicians” these two topics what she talked about are still my subjects and belief whenever I start doing something. Since he entered Berklee College Of Music, he has been experiencing many things, performing with greatest musicians Terence Blanchard(tp), Dayna Stephens(sax), Terri Lyne Carrington(ds), Jamie Callum(vo, pf), Sean Jones(tp), Darren Barrett(tp). Also he learned producing for musical theater, composing music and etc…. Though many experiences, he started thinking about collaborating with different kinds of art through his music, for example fashion, architecture, painting, plant art, etc. Especially he was interested in collaborating with fashion. He has been working with the online art magazine named “Metropolitan Society”. As a crew of Metropolitan Society creative team, he was modeling/styling for collaboration with Engineered Garments and own project “Lonely Traveler”. [Homepage](http://tomoakibaba.com/) Ai Kuwabara  Ai Kuwabara Born on September 21st, 1991. Graduated from the Music Department at Senzoku Gakuen High School as a jazz piano major in 2010. Studied piano under Yuki Arimasa, Yoko Yamashita, and Kazune Zaima. Has been active since her early years, winning many awards such as gold medals at the All-Japan Yamaha Electone Contest, for both the lower elementary division and the upper elementary division. Performed in many concerts such as the UNICEF Charity Concert, and International Junior Original Concert. Featured in AERA magazine as a “Genius Electone Girl.” Worked as Electone player for Kei Ogura’s musical Kids Algo in 2004 and 2005. From the latter half of junior high school, switched to playing the piano. Planned, produced, and composed music for her very first show in April 2010, all by herself, gaining favorable reviews. Currently performing all over Japan in shows spanning a range of genres, such as her collaboration with Mr. Masahiko Kitahara, trombone player for Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra. Worked in Germany from May to August 2011 as the pianist for the German production of The Young Americans Dinner-Theater Europe. Toured Japan as pianist for the Oizumi One-Man Show in October and November 2011. Took part in the first official CD for the fashion brand Mastermind Japan, as well as in Def Tech’s Greatest Hits album. Her first album “From Here to There” debuted on EWE Records in October 2012, and her second album “The Sixth Sense” was released in April 2013. [Homepage](http://www.aikuwabaratrio.com/) Srv.Vinci  Srv.Vinci is the band based on Tokyo and performing all over the place in Japan. Daiki Tsuneta (gt, syn, vo) and Shun Ishiwaka (ds) started the band in 2014 and You Seki (ds), Kazuki Arai (b), 191 (vo) in 2015. Ideas of the band’s sound are based on Daiki’s inspirations, experiences and emotions. And on the foundation, the band members add inspirations from many different genres of music. Srv.Vinci present new sound of Pop music and it will take you to the new worlds. [srv-vinci.jp](http://srv-vinci.jp) Miyu Hosoi Momoko Nishimoto