Erena Terakubo Quartet

Name: Erena Terakubo Quartet
Start: 2022-11-25
End: 2022-11-25
Location: The Django

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Where The Django 2 Avenue of the Americas, Cellar Level New York, NY 10013 Map It

When Nov 25, 2022 – Nov 25, 2022

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Saxophonist Erena Terakubo was born in Sapporo, Japan and began playing the alto saxophone at the age of nine. In 2010, she released her first album, "North Bird" with Kenny Barron, Christian McBride, Lee Pearson, and Peter Bernstein, through Japanese major label King Records. It hit 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, Terakubo 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 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 including Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, Australia, and the Middle East. Terakubo released six albums as a leader.