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Joe Wagner was born to a musical family on June 5, 1976 in Saratoga Springs, NY. He started playing the alto saxophone at the age of 10 and quickly fell in love with the music of Charlie Parker. He studied jazz and frequented many jazz clubs in the New York area before starting his professional career at the age of 16. While playing in many jazz and R&B settings as a high school student, Joe continued to study and absorb the jazz language and while studying with many jazz luminaries such as Mark Vinci, Milt Hinton, Pat La Barbara, Nick Brignola and Frank Mantooth. As a college student, he continued to frequent the New York City jazz scene, going to countless jam sessions and forming the Joe Wagner quartet. 

After college, Joe joined the Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1998 and toured around the United States playing Tenor Sax, flute and clarinet while playing the classic Miller songbook. Following this stint, he joined Carnival Cruise Lines as a showband saxophonist from 1998 to 2000, travelling to Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, The Virgin Islands, Hawaii and Alaska. During this time, he practiced diligently and continued to develop his personal sound. In June 2000, Joe joined the United States Air Force band and was stationed near San Francisco, California until August 2002. During this time he performed with a variety of artists including Mark Levine, Bruce Forman and Marvin Stamm. In August 2002, he was transferred to Japan and performed in Thailand, Australia, Korea and Guam with the USAF Band of the Pacific Asia. This experience culminated in a rare performance with the King of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej in July 2005 at the King’s summer palace in Hua Hin, Thailand. Joe left the USAF band in 2007 and now freelances throughout the Tokyo area in a variety of settings. 
 

アデレード芸術教育大学（テナーサックス専攻）を卒業する。オーストラリアで数年のプロ活動後、東南アジアを一年半旅行中、インドネシア、タイ、ネパール、インドのさまざまな文化や伝統音楽を吸収する。その後さまざまな吹奏楽器（サクソフォンからバンスリフルート等）を修得。その頃オーストラリア原住民音楽家と知りあい、その影響でディジュリドゥ（アボリジニが使用する世界で最も古い楽器）を吹き始め、ディジュリドゥの新たな魅力と可能性を引き出すことに成功した。今では彼の持つ色彩豊かなサウンドが、聴くもの全てを魅了し、様々なジャンルのアーティストからの出演依頼は年々増え続けている。現在日本在住のアンディ・べヴァンは、ジャズ、ブラジル音楽、フュージョン、ワールドミュージックと、あらゆるジャンルで活発な活動を展開、中でもワールドミュージックグループ『Tatopani』は、この13年間、国内外で数多くのコンサートやレコーディングを行い、好評を博してきた。また、最近はサウンドエンジニアとしても才能を発揮しており、さまざまなアーティストのCDをレコーディングから完成まで導いている。それら作品は、ミュージシャンからも評論家からも、自然で暖かいアコースティックサウンドとして評価が高い。そのサウンドを聴いてみたい人はここをクリックしてください - Sound Engineer

人生の半分ほどはサックスを吹いており、17歳の時には既にプロとして活動を始めています。モントリオールのマクギル大学において、クラシック作曲とジャズ演奏の学士号を取得。演奏者、アレンジャーとしての業績は次のとおり多岐に渡っています。

レジー・ウォークマン、ケニー・ウィーラー、ロビン・ユーバンクス, アンソニー・ブラクストンと言ったジャズ界の大御所と共演

有名なマイルス・デイビスのバンドメンバーであった、デイビット・リーブマンと共演、収録

かつて、モントリオールの有名なラテンバンド“LA MODA”のアレンジャー兼メンバー

モータウンレコーディングアーチストのマーサ・リーブス、カナダの有名シンガーであるアン・マーレイ等のポップアーティストのバックメンバー

現在日本でアンディウルフは様々な音楽シーンで活動をしています。スタジオ収録・作曲活動のほか、日野皓正・中山マリ・森山良子・福山雅治・アイコなど数多くの有名アーティストの下で更なる飛躍を遂げています

After studying Japanese at Sophia University on a fellowship from Yale, he moved to Tokyo in 1991. Since then, Jonathan has recorded three critically acclaimed CDs as leader of his own trio in addition to working as pianist in the bands of jazz greats such as the late Ray Brown, Lew Tabackin, Joe Lee Wilson and Eddie Henderson. Jonathanfs musicianship and diversity have led to concert and session work in other genres. He has performed and recorded with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Nagoya Philharmonic Pops and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestras under the baton of Bob Sakuma, and played on recordings and concerts for enka star Itsuki Hiroshi. He is also musical director/pianist/hornist of the jazz world music group CANDELA, and has contributed compositions and arrangements to its albums. Jonathan's duo with CANDELA's leader, shakuhachi innovator Bruce Huebner has also toured Japan and Europe, and CANDELA has toured North America twice, first at the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival and Joe's Pub in New York (June 2003), and again in 2004 to play at the Blue Note and record their second CD “RISE ABOVE.” Jonathan is also co-leader of the jazz quartet New York-Tokyo Connection (NYTC), which has toured and recorded in the US and Japan. Jonathanfs arrangements of Japanese traditional music and childrenfs songs have garnered acclaim and his big band arrangements are also starting to make a buzz in the US jazz education scene. He recently started his own 17-piece ensemble, The Tokyo Big Band.

MASAYO Hokkaido-born Salsa & Latin jazz singer Masayo is one of the few Japanese singers specializing in the “son” genre. She has appeared in music festivals in Cuba, studied with Oscar Valdez (Irakere), and is friends with members the Buena Vista Social Club. She is also an accomplished lyricist, and very musical—a musician’s singer.