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Satoshi Kataoka Jazz Quartet

Apr 19 21:30 pm - 23:30 pm
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RMB 60, RMB 50 (advance)

Satoshi Kataoka is a guitarist, composer and arranger living in New York City. He attended the Jazz Performance program at The City College of New York where he studied with world acknowledged musicians like, John Patittuci,Mike Holober, Scott Reeves and many others.Satoshi has had opportunities to play with some great players such as John McNeil (Horace Silver,Tom Harrell, Billy Hart, Bob Brookmeyer), Joe Martin (Chris Potter, Brad Mehldau, Fred Hersch,


Maria Schneider), Jochen Rueckert (Mark Turner, Marc Copland, Pat Metheny, Sam Yahel) and many more.


In 2015, he has released his first album, “Fall Into the Place” which consists of all his original pieces from the Surca music. The album recorded with Adam Kolker (Billy Hart, Paul Motian), Pablo Menares (Melissa Aldana’s Crush trio, Claudia Acuna) and Allan Mednard (Kurt Rosenwinkel, Aaron Parks).


He has been actively playing in the city since the college years at the venues such as Iridium, Smalls, Fatcat, Cornelia St Cafe,ShapeShifter Lab and many other places. He also has been invited to play some jazz festivals in China such as Hangzhou jazz festival, and given masterclasses in Beijing, Shanghai.


He's been playing in some different groups with musicians such as Allan Mednard, Pablo Menares, Glenn Zaleski(current pianist in Ravi Coltrane’s), Simona Premazzi(current pianist in Greg Osby’s and Jeremy Pelt’) and many more,as well as his own trio, quartet, quintet and larger ensemble. Catch him at Jianghu on April 19th with a great backing band.


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