Akira Tana Organ Trio featuring
Wayne de la Cruz & Jeff Massanari
Photo by Chuck Gee
Drummer Akira Tana has worked with Sonny Rollins,
Sonny Stitt, Zoot Sims, Hubert
Laws, Milt Jackson, Jim Hall, Art Farmer, Tete Montoliu, Paul Winter,
Paquito D'Rivera, James Moody, J.J. Johnson, Lena Horne, the Heath
Brothers, and Manhattan Transfer. He has appeared on over 200
recordings.
Tana co-led a quintet with bassist Rufus Reid, called TanaReid, which
released five CDs. A further five CDs followed with his own bands,
Otonowa, and The Secret Agent Men Band.
Akira appeared here previously with Larry Vuckovich, Jerome Sabbagh,
Jon Mayer, Knucklebean, Rob Schneiderman, Tim Armacost/David
Berkman, John Klopotowski, Mark Lewis, and Akira Tana and Friends from
Osaka.
http://www.akiratana.com/
Hammond organist Wayne de la Cruz began his
professional career in 1973 playing his first paying gig on Hammond
organ at the age of 16.
Since then he has performed with Randy Vincent, Pete Yellin, Mimi Fox,
Maria Muldaur, Mary Wells, Vernelle Anders, Terri Lynn Carrington,
Allison Miller, Wally Schnalle, Terrence Brewer, Alex Call, The Johnny
Nocturne Band, and The Legion of Mary, among many others.
He has played at these well known venues: S.F. Jazz Center,
Yoshi's Oakland & S.F., Monterey Jazz Festival, Jazz
at Pearl's, Anna's Jazz Island, The Fillmore St. Jazz Festival,
Biscuits and Blues, The Boom Boom Room, The Club Deluxe, The Hedly Club
in San Jose, The Plaza Bistro in Sonoma, Piedmont Piano Co., Bach
Dancing and Dynamite, Kuumbwa, and Vitello's in Studio City, Ca.
He appeared at Chez Hanny previously with the Jeff Massanari Trio, and
the Wayne de la Cruz Trio.
http://www.waynedelacruz.com
Guitarist Jeff Massanari was born in
Goshen, Indiana and moved to Washington DC at age 9.
By the time he was 17 he was
performing and teaching jazz and blues in the Washington DC area.
After studying at Berklee School of
Music, Jeff moved to the
Bay Area where has performed with vocalists Paula West,
Brenda Boykin, Denise
Perrier,
Nicolas Bearde, Kenny Washington, and Pamela Rose, and instrumentalists
Wally Schnalle, Jeff Pittson, Charles McNeil, Vince Lateano, Noel
Jewkes, Charlie McCarthy, Jeff Chambers,
The Johnny Nocturne Band, The Murasaki Ensemble, Swing Fever, and the
San Francisco Symphony.
He appeared at Chez Hanny previously with the Jeff Massanari Trio, and
the Wayne de la Cruz Trio.
http://jeff-massanari.com/
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