Jeff Kashiwa

Perhaps one of the most successful steady jazz saxophonists, Jeff Kashiwa made his name seeing that an associate of the favorite group the Rippingtons. Getting started over the clarinet at age group ten, it might be two years prior to the Seattle-born musician turned to saxophone. Inspired in early stages by such even jazz progenitors as Chuck Mangione and Spyro Gyra, Kashiwa ultimately transferred to Boston to wait Berklee University and developed a pastime in straight-ahead jazz — an art that often shades his live shows. His effort paid when he arrived the next alto seat in Disney’s All American University Band. Kashiwa discovered he enjoyed Southern California and used in Cal Condition Long Seaside to focus on his Bachelors of Music. During this time period he toured using the ska/reggae group the Untouchables carrying out on MTV’s 1st Spring Break. Later on, while working in a supermarket by day time and playing during the night, Kashiwa employed bassist Steve Bailey — after that using the Rippingtons — to try out on the gig. Bailey released Kashiwa towards the Rippingtons’ pianist and innovator Russ Freeman who employed Kashiwa in 1989 once the group’s unique saxophonist, Brandon Areas, remaining the group. It had been during this time period using the Rippingtons that Kashiwa documented two single albums, Keep in mind Catalina in 1995 and Walkamile in 1997. After that, in 1999, he remaining the Rippingtons to focus more energy by himself band, Coastal Gain access to. Kashiwa’s solo profession has been around joyfully frenetic overdrive because the amazing achievement of “Hyde Recreation area (The Aah, Ooh Music),” lots one strike on the air & Information airplay graph for over eight weeks in 2000. His Local Vocabulary debut Another Door Starts and its even more acoustic focused 2002 follow-up Basic Truth founded him as you of soft jazz’s most dominating saxophone voices, and he’s regularly performed 60-80 displays each year with Coastal Gain access to furthermore to large gigging with performers like Joyce Chilling, Chieli Minucci and Acoustic Alchemy, regular collaborator and co-producer Chuck Loeb, and for quite some time within the the Sax Pack, touring with Steve Cole and Kim Waters. In 2006, he reunited using the Rippingtons for the group’s 20th Wedding anniversary Tour and made an appearance as a visitor over the band’s 20th Wedding anniversary release. In the summertime of 2007, he was highlighted on even more live dates using the Rippingtons and released his 4th Native Language disk Play.