Yang Ming

Yang Ming (Yooikee) is a 23 years old jazz trombonist, was born in Beijing, China. Comes from a non musical family, but he started to have classical music education and played trombone at age of 5, at the same time studied euphonium and tenor saxophone. But after 4 years, at his age of 9, he dropped euphonium and saxophone, trombone became the major instrument which he had been working on till now. By the time he played in the Beijing youth wind Orchestra, he had won sevaral titles of both Chinese and international competitions as a band leader, and also few titles of Solo trombone contests: 1st price of the National Brass solo music contest(1993, 1999, 2000, Beijing); 2nd price in 1995 and 1997; Lead the Beijing Youth wind orchestra to win the 2nd price of the International Brass festival and contest(2000, Switzerland)......At his age of 15, He started to turn the direction and the interest into Jazz music and became a improviser and Jazz band leader who was actively played in most of the Jazz clubs in Beijing and rest of China, also including sevaral music festivals, such like MIDI music festival, Nigh Gates Jazz festival and so on. He had been also studied and played with sevaral Jazz masters in China such like the top Japanese drummer, Mr. Izumi Koga; trombonist, Matt Roberts and so on, and right now he is studing with a group of US Jazz masters like Sam Burtis, Don Braden, Brain Lynch, Dena DeRose, Ralph Peterson, David Berkman... He also plays other kinds of music such Reggae and Funk and especially Cuban music. Right now he runs his own Cuban Jazz Orchestra: Sabro Son Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra, which is a major latin band performs in Groningen, Netherland. For the future, he will be working on more wider field of music, hopefully travalling around the world, study, observe.....to be a good musician(As he always says, a good person first).L e t ' s F l y A w a y W i t h M u s i c

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