At first, please check my pics. It's much easier to explain what I've done before!!!
Originaly from Miyagi, Japan. Also lived in Tokyo area before coming to the U.S. and then moved to Boston, MA in '97. Moved to New Orleans, LA in '01 and moved again to New York, NY because of the Huriccane Katrina in '05.
Now working as a jazz trumpet player in New York and his second home, New Orleans.
Survived from an apartment building fire in Fenway, Boston '98 and the Hurricane Katrina '05. Made a front page picture on Boston Globe & Boston Herald and an article on New York Times and for those surviving things. (Wish I could be there only for my music thing.......hopefully someday will............)
Groups Satoru has performed & recorded with : Satoru Ohashi & N.O.N.Y. connection, The Valery Ponomaref Big Band, The Le Scandal Orchestra, The Brocklyn Repertoire Ensemble, The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, The NYC Blues Devils, the New Orleans Nightcrawlers Brass Band, Bob French & The Original Tuxede Jazz Band, New Birth Brass Band, Heavy Metal Horns, Russell Batiste's Orkestra from Da Hood, James Singleton Trio, 3now4kestra, Vivaz Latin Band, Freddy Omar & Con su Banda, New Orleans Spice Jazz Band @ The Creole Qeen, The New Orleans Export, New Orleans Potholes Brass Band, Panorama Brass Band, Treme Brass Band and the Bogmen etc.
Artists Satoru has performed or recorded with : Clark Terry, Joe Wilder, James Moody, Frank Wess, Billy Tayler, Christian McBride, Kenny Barron, Vanessa Rubin, Wynton Marsalis, Benny Golson, Ernestine Anderson, Gerald Wilson, Leroy Jones, Wendell Brunious, Greg Stufford, Shanon Powell, Russell Batiste, Donald Harrison, Marlon Jordan, Victor Goines, Wycliffe Gordon, Eric Reed, Eddie Henderson, Sean Jones, James Zollar, Hannival Marvin Peterson, John Hicks, Richard Davis, Tiger Okoshi, Phil Wilson, Steve Turre, Allen Vizutti, Vincent DeMartino, Terri Lyne Carrington, Cindy Blackman, Poncho Sanchez, The O'jays, Solomon Burke, Luther Kent, The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Fred Wesley, George Porter Jr, Leo Nocentilli and Delfiyo Marsalis etc.
Also did opening acts for B.B.King, Bo Diddley, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Buckwheat Zydeco, Jimmy Cliff, Harry Conick Jr, El Gran Combo, Poncho Sanchez, Robert Gordon and Joe Bonamassa, etc.
Schools: Juilliard School (NY) Jazz Studies Almni, former member of Louis Armstrong Quintet in University of New Orleans (for only 2 weeks, before "Katrina" happened) & Berklee college of Music (Boston) Almni.