Name: Akiko Tsuruga with Bruce Forman & Akira Tana
Start: 2022-08-13T20:00:00-07:00
End: 2022-08-13T22:30:00-07:00
Location: The Sound Room

Akiko Tsuruga with Bruce Forman & Akira Tana

The Sound Room is aptly named. The focus is on the sound or the music. Unlike clubs where the performance may be peripheral to the experience, at the Sound Room the performance is the experience.  We are an all-ages listening room. We exist to present great music and promote jazz as an art form.The Sound Room is the home of Bay Area Jazz & Arts, a  501(c)3 non-profit organization focused on promoting the Arts.

Bay Area Jazz & Arts at The Sound Room

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A rare opportunity to see this amazing Hammond B wizard!!!Raised in Osaka, Japan, Akiko began studying the organ at the age of three, at the famed Yamaha Music School. Early on in her musical journey, Akiko discovered her love for jazz and has been playing with the best of the best. Lou Donadlson calls her the Queen of the Organ. She is a constant draw on the NY jazz scene.Akiko will be performing with Bruce Forman &amp; Akira Tana.Bruce Forman is a seasoned jazz player with top-level skills as a leader, entertainer and sideman. He creates soulful, lyrical melodies, inventive harmonies, and solid accompaniment. Though he can shred bebop at blistering tempos with the best of ‘em, he is no urban snob. Cow Bop, Forman’s unique “western bebop” band, hit four separate charts with its CDs, Swingin’ Out West, Route 66, Too Hick for the Room and Cowlifornia Swing. Having won the Route 66 Challenge three times with Cow Bop, he created a linear music festival in 2013 at the USC Thornton School of Music, called Music Licks on 66, establishing a new paradigm for touring and the use of social media, included in a mentoring model that is both innovative and collaborative.Akira Tana is a legendary jazz drummer who worked with Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Zoot Sims, Hubert Laws, Milt Jackson, Jim Hall, Art Farmer, The Paul Winter Consort, Paquito D’Rivera, James Mood, J.J. Johnson, Lena Horne, The Manhattan Transfer, Ruth Brown, Charles Aznavour, Maurice Hines, Van Dyke Parks and many others. He actually appeared on over 200 recordings.

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