Thank you very much to the photographer: Maezawa Hideto (contact: csmsms@gmail.com)
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----------------- with Tetsu Saitoh (doublebass), Daisuke Takaoka (tuba)

Since Tetsu and I started our collaboration in 2006, Yokohama Airegin has been, almost each year, the first performance's stage of our yearly Japan Tour. By the time I did really get attached to this Life Club, and I can hardly imagine our Japan Tour without our first in Airegin.
This Jazz Life Club (that you can visit at: http://yokohama-airegin.com) has a long and very important history among the Jazz Life Stages in Japan. 

Mister Minoru Uemoto is the owner of this place. He is himself trompet player. He lived during ten years in Germany and was six years in Cologne where he played for an orchestra. So each time that I step into Airegin, I have the surprise to hear "Guten Tag ! wie geht es dir?" (which means "Hello, how are you?" in german).