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Ro Hasegawa / tenor saxophone,flute,composer

Born in Kyoto, Japan.Ro Hasegawa began playing saxophone when he was a student at Kansai University in early 90’s.The participation in Billy Higgins’ Workshop was one of a turning point that made him convinced to pursuit the career in jazz music. After graduated from Kansai University, he established his local presence as a saxophonist and performed regularly with his mentor, Mitsuru Nishiyama (bassist) and other local artists as well as leading his own group, Lo4 (quartet) and Ro-Chestra (a 14 piece big band).

Introduced by Nishiyama, he had studied with Milt Jackson, Kenny Barron, Hank Jones, and Ralph Moore. These particular encounters made his mind and set him off to the United States. Moved to New York in 1999, he attended at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music given an opportunity studying with Melvin Smith, Ohada Tarmor, Enos Paine, Terence Conley, Helen Sun, and Sean Moran. In addition, privately he had studied with Wes Anderson (former member of Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra).

In April and May of 2005 preceding the album release, completed a 10-day national tour in Japan including appearances in 2 major jazz festivals in Kansai area

* In June 2005, his first album, “In this case…” released from Bass On Top (Japanese Jazz Label).

" In This Case,,, " / Ro Hasegawa (BOCZ-1001)
Ro Hasegawa (Ts)
Toru Dodo (Pf) , Yujiro Nakamura (Ds)
Kazuhiko Takeda (G)
Hatsumi Kamiyasaki , Kosuke Inoue (B)
Recordec on April 29th & 30th,2004,Osaka                       BUY CD

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