Chihiro Yamazaki (tp) started a band with Satoshi Yamashita (dr), Koji Yamamoto (Ba), Hana Takami (Key) in summer 2010.

Their unique sound witch is called "Singing Instruments" based on Instrumental Pop came from many different back grounds such as jazz, fusion, classical and rock.
From then on, They have been performing at SXSW every year- 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017. Also they made a big success at Toronto Jazz Festival in June 2013. In Febuary2014, Chihiro released her first solo album from Sony Music and she has done the big domestic tour.

That grew the amount of audience up drastically. From then, they’ve performed bigger festival such as Monterey Jazz Festival, Groovin' Summer Festival... All of them had more than thousand audiences.

Their international project is now getting bigger and bigger. In winter 2015, they had their solo hall concert in Seoul Korea and the tickets were sold out. Also performed in the Bay of Island Blues and Jazz Festival 2016 - New Zealand successfully.

In coming August 2017, Chihiro will release her second solo album from the major label King Record.

The band released 4 CDs and 1 DVD in totall. It reached top 4 sales on Amazon.

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