Akira tana biography
Akira tana jazz drummer.
Akira tana biography
Akira Tana
American jazz drummer (born 1952)
Akira Tana | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1952-03-14) March 14, 1952 (age 72) San Jose, California, United States |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument | Drums |
| Labels | Sons of Sound |
Musical artist
Akira Tana (born March 14, 1952, in San Jose, California) is an American jazz drummer.
Biography
Tana grew up in Palo Alto, graduating from Gunn High School in 1970.[1] Tana then obtained a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in the social sciences, playing gigs on the side, then enrolled at the New England Conservatory of Music.
There he performed in both classical and jazz idioms, playing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and student ensembles as well as with musicians such as Helen Humes, Milt Jackson, Sonny Rollins, George Russell, and Sonny Stitt.
Tana recorded frequently as a sideman in the 1980s, and began releasing albums as a leader in the 1990s. He formed a group, Tana Reid, with Rufus Reid, a