Takuya Kuroda
Takuya Kuroda
is a Japanese jazz trumpeter and arranger.
Kuroda came to music by joining his school's big band. Later he frequently visited jam sessions in Kobe. In 2003 he moved to the United States and was course participant at Berklee College of Music before settling in Brooklyn, New York City. At the much less expensive College of Performing Arts of The New School he studied Jazz and Contemporary Music and got his degree in 2006. His study colleague has been José James who became his close friend and musical partner and even produced the 2014 Rising Son studio album.Discography
Studio albums
- Bitter and High
- Edge
- Six Aces
- Rising Son
- Zigzagger
As sideman
- José James, Blackmagic
- José James, No Beginning No End
- José James, While You Were Sleeping
- Blue Note Voyage - Omnibus album with Akihiro Nishiguchi,, Jun Miyakawa, Ai Kuwabara, Ryuta Tsunoda, Tomo Kanno,
