Event

NY Japanese Women Jazz Composers (NYJWJC)

ShapeShifter+ Presents
NY Japanese Women Jazz Composers (NYJWJC) 2nd Concert
Featuring SAKURA Jazz Orchestra
With AKDance, Ikebana, and Japanese Sake

$35 (DUO ticket for two people)
$25 ($20 in advance)
$10 (student)

Composers:
Asuka Kakitani, Migiwa Miyajima, Meg Okura, Noriko Ueda

Dancers:
AKDance (Ayaka Kamei, Juno Arreglado, Réka Echerer, Chisato Yanagisawa)

Sakura Jazz Orchestra:
Saxes and Reeds; Ben Kono, Rob Wilkerson, Jason Rigby, Quinsin Nachoff, Carl Maraghi
Tumpets; John Walsh, Dave Smith, Matt Holman, Jim O'Connor
Trombones; Jason Jackson, Nick Grinder, JC Sanford, James Rogers
Piano Adam Birnbaum, Bass Noriko Ueda, Guitar Pete McCann, Drums Jared Schonig
Voice Aubrey Johnson

Ikebana Flower:
Paula Tam, Professor of Ikenobo Ikebana

Japanese Sake:
Sake Master Kinoshita Kazuhiro

For the second time this year, NY Japanese Women Jazz Composers (NYJWJC) and the Sakura Jazz Orchestra will present modern jazz compositions by four award-winning composers from Japan at the ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn, NY.
In addition, AKDance will showcase its original choreography to four of the compositions by the NYJWJC, and a live demonstration of Ikebana flower arrangement will be presented, accompanied by improvised music.

This event is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).