International Jazz Day Celebration w/ Ken Okada Group ft. YOYOKA

Bassist, composer, and arranger Noriyuki Ken Okada was born in New York and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Yokohama, Japan. Finding inspiration in Japanese fusion and video game music, he’s developed an exciting take on jazz. He returns to the SJZ Break Room to feature material from his latest album Square One featuring Japanese drum prodigy Yoyoka.

Born in Hokkaido, Japan, Yoyoka Soma started playing drums even before she began to speak. When she was eight, she became the youngest weekly champion in the global drumming contest Hit Like a Girl. During this period, Yoyoka's drum cover of Led Zeppelin's “Good Times Bad Times” received international recognition and praise including from Robert Plant himself. She became the youngest person ever to be featured on Drummerworld’s list of the world’s Top 500 Drummers and appeared in Newsweek Japan’s 100 Most Respected Japanese in the World.

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