8月18日 X-tone Unit 公演＠六本木サテンドール　メンバー紹介！

第五弾は、ゲスト・ヴォーカリストのビオリカ・ロゾブさんです！

暑い夏に、熱い男たちが、ライブパフォーマンスを開催します。

皆さん、素晴らしいミュージシャンの方々です。

こんな豪華なメンバーが一堂に会するコンサート。

是非、お聴き逃しなく！

Viorica Lozov（Vo）ビオリカ・ロゾブ

モルドバ（Moldova）生まれ。５才の時から歌い始め、海外の多くのコンテストで優勝。日本語を始め５ヶ国語に精通し、歌では１３ヶ国語をカバーする。ジプシー音楽からアメリカンジャズ、R&B、POPS、ヨーロッパの曲からラテン音楽まで、幅広いレパートリーで各種イベントやライブで都内を中心に活動中。

ビオリカさんHP　http://performernet.com/talent2010/musician_singer/149.html

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美しすぎるジャズ・シンガー

Viorica Lozov（Vo）ビオリカ・ロゾブ

モルドバ（Moldova）生まれ。 ５歳よりクラシックボーカルを学び、モルドバの国営テレビ”Lia-Ciocarlia”の聖歌隊で１５年ソリストとして活動。その後もテレビ番組の音楽ショー等でパフォーマンスの実績を重ねた後、音楽大学”Stephan Nega”に入学。クラシックボーカルと合唱団の指揮テクニックを学んだ。その後音楽芸術学校”G.Muzicescu”のジャズホーカルクラスで ジャズを学びながら各地のコンテストに参加。海外の多くのコンテストで優勝。ロシアではポーランドの有名な歌のコンテストでトロフィーを得た。それをきっかけにハウステンボスの様々なショーに出演。日本語を始め５ヶ国語に精通し、歌では１３ヶ国語をカバーする。そのスキルを活かし、都内を中心にジャズ、クラシック、シャンソン、ポップスタイル、ダンスタイムのパーティやイベントではバッキングトラックを使用して歌うなど 幅広いアレンジも可能なオリジナルアーティストとして人気活躍中。

ビオリカさんのその他のお写真は、上記のビオリカさんのHPでご覧くださいね。

この他にも、とっても素敵なお写真がご覧いただけますよ〜。

いやぁ〜、本当に美しすぎる♡

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8月18日 X-tone Unit 公演＠六本木サテンドール　メンバー紹介！

本日は、ベーシスト Paul Jacksonさんのご紹介です！

暑い夏に、熱い男たちが、ライブパフォーマンスを開催します。

今回は、X-tone Unit のメンバー紹介です。

メンバー５人とゲスト・ヴォーカリストのヴィオリカさんのご紹介を、

これから順にさせていただきたいと思います。

皆さん、素晴らしいミュージシャンの方々です。

こんな豪華なメンバーが一堂に会するコンサート。

是非、お聴き逃しなく！

Paul Jackson

「伝説のベーシスト」、「ミュージシャンの中のミュージシャン」と賞賛され、世界的に名高いポール・ジャクソン。彼はヘッド・ハンターズの創立メンバーとして、ハービー・ハンコックと共に現代音楽の新しい方向性を創造してきた。２人が共に行った海外ツアーは、世界各国に及び、多くのファンを魅了した。

Paul Jackson is known as a “Musician’s Musician”. As a founding member of the Headhunters under Herbie Hancock, Paul has shaped a sound that launched a new direction in contemporary music. The solid union between Hancock and Jackson has been especially evident in the many international tours they have made together. With uncountable projects to his credit, he is now touring with the Paul Jackson Trio riding the crest of a new CD release – autumn of 2014.

Paul JacksonさんHP　http://www.pauljacksonbass.com

以下のBiography（英文）は、ポールさんのHPに掲載されているものです。

ポールさんのHPには、英語・日本語以外にも、

フランス語・スペイン語・イタリア語の翻訳バージョンもあります。

みなさま、チェックしてみてくださいね。

Born in Oakland, California in 1947, Paul Jackson began playing bass at the age of nine. Considered by many of his teachers to be a musical prodigy, he performed with the Oakland Symphony by the age of fourteen where he expanded his musical interests to include performance levels on bassoon and piano.

His inspirations carried him into study with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. The strong teaching foundation led him into teaching seminars for years with institutions such as A.N. Contemporary of Music (Tokyo), Pan School of Music (Tokyo), Musashino School of Music (Tokyo), Berkley School of Music (Boston), University of California Santa Cruz, and San Jose State University.Paul has been an adviser for Osaka School of Music since 2002.

Paul Jackson is known as a “Musician’s Musician”. As a founding member of the Headhunters under Herbie Hancock, Paul has shaped a sound that launched a new direction in contemporary music. The solid union between Hancock and Jackson has been especially evident in the many international tours they have made together.

In 1979, Paul embarked on a solo recording venture releasing his own album, “Black Octopus”, on Toshiba EMI Records. Jackson’s composing has not gone without recognition as well, beginning with Grammy Award Nominations in 1974, 1975 and 1976 for song-writing “Chameleon” “Hang Up Your Hang-ups” and “Spider”, respectively. Like other highly talented, creatively motivated engineers of music, Paul has expanded his career to other mediums such as playing on the sound track of Paramount’s “Death wish” and “Dirty Harry”. He was a music director for the touring company of “Don’t Bother, I can’t Cope”, spent a year and a half with the Radio Free Europe and has appeared with the Oakland Symphony as well as Herbie Hancock on Midnight Special (ABC-TV) .

Time out to compose the score for film and other hefty projects was sandwiched in between appearing with the band’s numerous jazz festivals such as the De Hagg, Pori, Spain, Montreaux, Newport and Paris. All in all, Paul Jackson is a million mile flyer since his eighteenth birthday.

Since 1985, Paul moved his residence to Japan and continued to be active in many aspects of the Japanese music scene. Live concerts with nation-famous artists such as Char, Tsutomu Yamashita, Sadao Watanabe have been performed in between composing/arranging music for TV commercial films and movies. In 1987, Paul started one of his life-long projects, Jazz for Kids, which is a voluntary concert performed at Japanese schools with an aim to introduce American black history through music and slide presentation. More than 80 schools across Japan has been visited by Paul and his band, which has been introduced on NHK, the only Japanese governmental TV station. The associated documentary was made by the ministry of Education in 1991.

In the time when understanding of, and respect for fellow human beings are called for more and more, irrespective of differences in races and cultures, Paul is convinced that Jazz for Kids is needed more than ever. Even after moving to Japan and residing in Tokyo, Paul has spent time for live concerts in the United States and in Europe.

In 1998, the long-awaited re-union of the Headhunters was materialized with a release of “The Return of the Headhunters”. The Headhunters with Herbie Hancock made a successful tour through the U.S.A. and Europe in summer and autumn of that year. Since autumn of 2001, Paul moved from Tokyo to the western part of Japan and continues to be active in the music scene in Japan, the U.S.A. and Europe. The Blue Note tour across Japan with Mike Clark and Jack Walrath from the U.S.A. and Char in March, 2002 had a great success, re-confirming to Paul’s fans and music critics of his enormous talent as producer, as well as bassist and vocalist. In conjunction with the release of long-awaited next album by the Headhunters, Evolution Revolution from Basin Street Records, New Orleans, U.S.A. in April, 2003, the Headhunters’ tour across the United States took place in August, 2003 with huge success.

Some of Paul’s achievements in his recent years in Japan are as follows:

1989: Awarded the “Key of Osaka City” for contribution to the City.

1990: Awarded the “Key of Fukuoka City” for contribution to the City.

1990: Received formal invitation from the Emperors Palace to hear Court Music.

1991: Played at “South East Asia International Music Festival Vol.1” In Singapore and Malaysia with various musicians from Asian countries.

1993: Nominated as a singer to sing the America’s national anthem for the NFL American Bowl played in the Big Egg, Tokyo.

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