Amazon.com

Akiko’s new album SAKURA will be available on Amazon.com on Feb 14.

Check out the audio sample at Amazon.com now!

Blue Note Tokyo

Akiko will appears at Blue Note Tokyo and Nagoya Blue Note with Lou Donaldson Quartet.

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Akiko’s Facebook fan page just opened. Check it out!

May the New Year turn out to be the happiest and the best for you.

Happy new year!

Akiko Tsuruga

Akiko Tsuruga Japan Tour 2011

Akiko Tsuruga announced her tour, “AKIKO TSURUGA JAPAN TOUR 2011″ for this fall, which kicks off in Kyoto, Japan in 27th October and ends in Yokohama in 6th November.

Download the Poster “AKIKO TSURUGA JAPAN TOUR 2011″

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DownBeat Magazine 59th Annual Critics Poll

Thank you for your support!!!

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New York Times

From New York Times

Akiko Tsuruga at Japion Magazine VOL.554, FRI, APRIL 23rd

(Would be nice if you can) Take my music into your heart along with your sweet memories – Akiko Tsuruga (Hammond Organ Player)

Ms. Akiko Tsuruga, a Hammond organist, is keeping herself busy playing at jazz clubs in and out of the city as well as touring nationally and internationally. Hammond organ is an analog electronic organ and the first of the kind. It uses tube preamplifier and generates warm, distinctive analog sound. It requires intricate timber control, and Ms. Tsuruga says “This instrument has a full of possibilities because the sound will never be the same and vary by each environment (in where each organ is played).” Each player creates the sound on the spot instinctively, and she often learns new things led by this instant creation. That is surely one of the appealing parts about the instrument. In 197O’s, Hammond organ was no longer in production; therefore, the instrument needs to be constantly maintained to keep its condition. However, still technical hitches cannot be avoided. “Say… even some note won’t come out. I imagine that note and make myself believe that I hear it!” Ms. Tsuruga laughs.

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