Jeff Kashiwa

Jeff Kashiwa gained national recognition during the ten years he spent as a member of the Rippingtons. He recorded two excellent solo CDs while he was still in the band, Remember Catalina and Walk A Mile, and was featured on all of Steve Reid's Bamboo Forest CDs. After leaving the band to focus on his solo career in 1999, he released Another Door Opens and scored a #1 radio hit with “Hyde Park (The Aah Ooh Song).” He released two more CDs, Simple Truth and Peace of Mind, and put together a three-sax supergroup, The Sax Pack, with Kim Waters and Steve Cole that has been touring for several years. He toured with the most rockin' version of Guitars and Saxes a few years ago, and Rippingtons fans have been thrilled to see him onstage with the band again during their 20th anniversary tour. In the midst of all this activity, he has stepped into the vanguard of smooth jazz artists who are moving beyond the tailored for airplay approach and reclaiming their original sound. His latest CD, Play, will be released on July 31. Several music writers, including this one, have said that this is the best Smooth Jazz sax CD they've heard in years. I caught up with him about a week after an advance copy of the CD took up permanent residence in my car and my iPod.

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