Kaori Kobayashi

Kaori Kobayashi (小林 香織, Kobayashi Kaori, born October 20, 1981), is a Japanese jazz saxophonist and flautist. She grew up in Tokyo.

Biography

Kobayashi was born October 20, 1981, in Kanagawa Prefecture. Her father was a photographer and her mother, a piano teacher. Beginning at a very young age, Kobayashi learned to play the piano. When she was 13 years old she joined a brass band and started to play the flute. Four years later she stopped playing in the band, instead choosing to start a relationship with the saxophone. After that she turned to jazz.

After four years, having learned from Bob Zangu how to play the saxophone in a jazz setting, she entered the Senzoku College of Music. After graduating, she got a contract with the label Victor Entertainment and her first album, Solar, appeared.

Albums

• Solar, Kaori's Collection (2005)
• Fine (2006)
• Glow (2007)
• Shiny (2008)
• The Golden Best (2009)
• Luv Sax (2009)
• Precious (2011)
• Seventh (2012)
• Urban Stream (2013)
• Spirit (2014)
• STORY: 10th Anniversary (2015)
• Melody (2016)
• Be myself! (2018)

References

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Interview on Kochipan (French)