Ryo Sasaki on trumpet, jazz, improve w/ Ching Juhl - Video

Juhl Media presents Ryo Sasaki, jazz musician in conversation with Ching Juhl, filmmaker/violist. The live program includes interviewing Sasaki, discussing jazz, music and performing arts. Sunday, January 2nd at 4 PM (EST).

Hailing from Tokyo, Japan, Ryo Sasaki began studying trumpet performance at the age of fifteen. He majored in Performance and graduated cum laude from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass., studying under the tutelage of Darren Barrett, Tiger Okoshi, and Charlie Lewis. Sasaki has been a professional jazz trumpet player since 2000. He has been featured at venues such as Blue Note, Smalls, St. Nick's Pub, The Cotton Club, Minton's Playhouse, Smoke, St. Peter's Church, Mezzrow, the Rainbow Room, and the Carlyle. In 2010, he performed at the international Ashodod Super Jazz Festival in Israel as the sole representative of Japan.

Sasaki is well known for his mellow and enticing tones on the trumpet and flugelhorn. He has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians, including Bill Crow, Greg Bundy, Ed Cherry, Dennis Davis, Charlie Pership, Amina Figarova, Fukushi Tainaka, Toru Dodo, Michael Kanan, Grant Stewart, The Cotton Club, All-Stars, and the David White Jazz Orchestra.

Sasaki has resided in New York City since 2006.

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Ching Juhl, Chinese American, is a filmmaker, video journalist and musician. She is the founder of Juhl Media, and has published more than 700 videos on social media, with topics ranging from current events to live interviews, music productions to how-to videos.

Ching Juhl's feature documentary My Yang Gang Diary, won the Best Feature Film at Toronto Documentary Feature & Short Film Festival, International Film Festival Manhattan, and Special Jury Activist Award in Awareness Film Festival in 2021. Her doc short Black Lives Matter was world premiered at the Socially Relevant Film Festival NY in 2020.

To watch film My Yang Gang Diary: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/370872

Educated at New York University and Indiana University, Juhl is also a music educator and concert violist. She played with Phoenix Symphony, Pittsburgh Opera, Jade String Trio as well as backing up with Rod Stewart and Perry Como. She taught music at St. Joseph's College for 15 years, and has been directing and teaching violin/viola at Music Studio Manhattan.

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