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Satoshi Inoue 井上智 was born on November 12, 1956 in Kobe, Japan and studied at Kyoto’s Fuji School of Music from 1979 to 1981. Between 1981-1988, he led his own groups in Japan.

Moving to New York City in 1989 he studied at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music where he met Jim Hall, who has been on the faculty of the university since his senior year.

Over the years, Inoue has toured with jazz greats such as James Moody, James Williams, Cecil Bridgewater, Frank Foster, Slide Hampton, Barry Harris, Jimmy Heath, Arnie Lawrence, Jack McDuff, Junior Mance, Jon Faddis, Akira Tana, The Clayton Brothers and Toshiko Akiyoshi.

His own band has gigged at New York’s top jazz venues, and for twelve years, Inoue has brought American musicians to Japan to conduct fall tours for concerts and workshops, including the Big Apple in Nonoichi festival. His lectures on jazz standards appear monthly in a Japanese jazz magazine called Jazz Life.

Guitarist Satoshi Inoue, who performed together on Hall’s widely used instructional video collection called Jazz Guitar Master Class Volumes 1&2, continues to compose, record and perform.

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