Yoshida Jiro born in 1958 in Fukuoka is a guitarist. He is interested in jazz listening to John Coltrane at the age of 15 and a piano at the age of 5 and a classical guitar at the age of 6 years.
He moved to Tokyo at the age of 18 and started professional activities as a studio musician. After that he was active in the front line, but listening to Miles Davis in Shinjuku in 1981 became a turning point, and went to the United States in 1983. Entered Berklee College of Music the following year. After graduation, he was a lecturer at the same school.
He has been living in New York since 1990 and began full-scale music activities. His activities range from core jazz such as Oliver Lake and Philis Hyman to Joe Sample, Michael Franks, Ricky Lee Jones, Sergio Mendes and Phoebe Snow, and touring support for pop artists.
As a jazz guitarist, he presides over his group "New Sound Workshop" and continues to perform serious music activities as an artist, such as challenging experimental music. As a producer, he appointed Astrad Gilberto in the tribute work "Ayers to Jobim" (BMG Japan) to Carlos Jobin, and a project "Tribute," which co-starred Janice Siegel of New York Voices and Manhattan Transfer. It is the first activity in the United States that is familiar with the wide range of contacts and the music industry in the United States, such as the completion of "To Carpenters" (King), and exhibits unique talents as a Japanese artist in the United States.
Many performances at major jazz festivals in and outside of Montreal, such as the Jazz Festival, the Mt ・ Fuji Jazz Festival, and the JVC Jazz Festival.
In 2003, he served as a weekly host for the NHK popular program "Let's meet on Koen-dori", and for a week and a variety of guests (Aki Hachiyo, Yuji Miyake, etc.) and Yoshida Jiro World together and further his talents Penetration between teas.
In the same year, he was appointed as the second United Nations WAFUNIF goodwill ambassador as a Japanese from United Nations New York headquarters .
In addition to being a jazz guitarist, he has also scored film music such as "Dance with Wolves". He is currently working on the theme song and score for the Hollywood movie "I Remember You" (Rich Dreyfus, starring Jennifer Aniston), which will be released in recent years . In 2015, Sony Music released the album 'a pastel shade' .
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