Akira Tana and Friends from Osaka featuring Atsuko Hashimoto on Hammond B3 w. Jackie Ryan
Sun, Sep 27
|Pacific Jazz Cafe Monterey Jazz Festival
Time & Location
Sep 27, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Pacific Jazz Cafe Monterey Jazz Festival, 2000 Fairground Rd, Monterey, CA 93940, USA
About the event
Featuring Atsuko Hashimoto with special guest Jackie Ryan
Born and raised in California, Akira Tana earned degrees from Harvard University and the New Conservatory of Music. Tana has worked with, among others, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Zoot Sims, Hubert Laws, Milt Jackson, Jim Hall, Art Farmer, the Paul Winter Consort, Paquito D’Rivera, James Moody, J.J. Johnson, Lena Horne, the Manhattan Transfer, Ruth Brown, Charles Aznavour, Maurice Hines, and Van Dyke Parks. He has appeared on over 200 recordings.
In the ’90s, Tana co-led a quintet with the bassist Rufus Reid called TanaReid, which has five releases: Yours and Mine and Passing Thoughts on Concord Records, and Blue Motion, Looking Forward, and Back to Front on Evidence Music. On Sons of Sound, Akira has two releases as a leader: Moon Over the World and Secret Agent Men.
The third US release on Sons of Sound as a leader is a project…
