Martha Kato

Martha Big Band —Ventus is back!!! 4/30(木)コットンクラブにてビッグバンド公演やります！！！国際ジャズデイを記念して、ワールド感がよりパワーアップした特別編成、最強で最高のメンバーと世界を巡る音楽の旅をお届けします🌿🌍前回のライブを越える伝説をぜひ目撃しに来てください🤩💥💥💥エブリバディ集合！！！！！

I’m so excited to bring back my big band Ventus to the Cotton Club on April 30th!!!

See you in April!🇯🇵🌸皆様のお越しをお待ちしております！😍🔥🔥🔥

https://www.cottonclubjapan.co.jp/jp/sp/artists/martha-kato-260430/

Celebrate "International Jazz Day" with
MARTHA KATO - Ventus
Traveling the World with Jazz
〜ジャズで世界を旅する〜

2026 4.30 thu.
[1st.show] open 5:00pm / start 6:00pm
[2nd.show] open 7:45pm / start 8:30pm

MEMBER
加藤真亜沙 (p,vo)
西口明宏 (sax)
土井徳浩 (sax,fl)
David Negrete (sax,fl)
浦ヒロノリ (sax)
竹村直哉 (sax,bass cl)
広瀬未来 (tp)
黒田卓也 (tp)
石川広行 (tp)
大泊久栄 (tp)
駒野逸美 (tb)
和田充弘 (tb)
三原万里子 (tb)
青地宏幸 (bass tb)
Akira Ishiguro (g)
中林薫平 (b)
小田桐和寛 (ds)
Kan (per)

[予約受付開始日]
【Web先行受付】
3/31(火) 12:00pm～
【電話受付】
4/2(木) 12:00pm～

8月28日(水)コットンクラブ公演が決定しました！皆様のお越しを心よりお待ちしております！

Excited to be back at COTTON CLUB on August 28th! See you soon Japan!

https://www.cottonclubjapan.co.jp/jp/sp/artists/martha-kato/

New live album with my trio “Moonlit” is now available on all platforms today! 🌒🌓🌔 Please check it out!

Listen here

Marthaトリオのライブアルバム「Moonlit - Live at Alfie」本日発売！！！🎊🎊今年1月に行ったトリオのライブレコーディング、迫力と臨場感が溢れ出るアルバムできました！ぜひ皆様聴いてください！！🎧

✍🏻Trio shows in Japan

🔸12/21(木)南青山 BAROOM
🔹1/5(金)名古屋 Jazz Inn Lovely
🔸1/12(金)六本木 Alfie

お見逃しなく！！！

Artwork design / photography by Mikio Hasui

Live at Alfie

Martha Kato - piano, vocals
Kunpei Nakabayashi - upright bass, electric bass
Kazu Odagiri - drums
Guest: Kan - percussion

New music video for Kinmok-Sailor is out! Please check it out.

キンモクセイラーのMVを公開しました！ぜひご覧ください！

Director: txxth 

Director of Photography: Keisuke Tsujimoto 

Special thanks to Yuji Otawa (L'ESPACE VISION) 

Written by Martha Kato Martha Kato - piano, vocals 

Sarah Elizabeth Charles - vocals 

Moto Fukushima - bass 

Keita Ogawa - drums 

Recorded by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio 

Mixed & mastered by David Darlington at Bass Hit Recording 

Sóluna album: https://scol.lnk.to/SCOL1064

今秋オープン予定の麻布台ヒルズのムービー音楽制作を担当しました！

I wrote music for this movie for Azabudai Hills which opens this fall in Tokyo. I’m honored to have been part of this project.

Creative Director　Kaoru Sugano 

Creative Director / Copywriter　Muneyuki Fujimoto 

Creative Director / Planner　Sotaro Yasumochi 

Director　Koichiro Tsujikawa 　Shota Tanaka 

Narration　Azumi (Wyolica) 

Music　Martha Kato
 

Martha Kato - composition, arrangement, piano, vocals, Rhodes piano, shells, rainsticks

Keita Ogawa - percussion
Yasushi Nakamura - upright bass
Jonathan Powell - trumpet, flugelhorn
Lucas Pino - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet
Remy Le Boeuf - flute, alto saxophone

Henry Wang - 1st violin
Mari Lee - 2nd violin
Cong Wu - viola
Sam DeCaprio - cello

Dave Darlington - engineering at Bass Hit Recording
Todd Carder - engineering at The Bunker Studio
Charles Mueller - engineering at Oktaven Audio
Akihiro Nishimura - mixing

My 2nd album Solúna is out worldwide! Please check it out! Big Thank you to all my people who took part in making this album 🙏🏻

ついにフルアルバム世界配信解禁！！！🎊🎊🎊パンデミックでレコーディングの計画が頓挫して2年、前作から6年かかりましたが、本当に納得のいくものができました。隅から隅まで魂の込もった渾身の一作です！！たくさんの人に聴いてもらえたら嬉しいです！ぜひチェックよろしくお願いします！！！

Listen here.

Release show in NYC ✍🏻
7/24 at Dizzy’s Club

A little bit about the story 📖

Solúna is the sun and moon 🌞🌓

Four years ago when I toured in California, the sun, forest, ocean, and stars inspired me, and that summer I finished writing new three pieces that have become the core songs of this album. I named one of them Sól, which means the sun, or a goddess that personifies the sun.

This came to a full circle last summer when I took a trip to Anza Borrego, in San Diego, to have a photo shoot for the album.

I had never seen that many stars, a clear milky way, and so many shooting stars over the night. I had never been anywhere that was as quiet as this desert. You can feel the sun from all directions, and it was so powerful and peaceful.

The music brought me to this trip and I named this album Solúna.

I hope this album reaches out to a lot of people all over the world and gives you a little something. And I’m excited about where this music can take me next.

Lastly, I would like to thank all the people who made this album great. Thank you all.

musicians:
Keita Ogawa
Moto Fukushima
John Ellis
Michael Rodriguez
Ryan Keberle
Itai Kriss
Remy Le Boeuf
Sarah Elizabeth Charles
Takafumi Nikaido

engineers:
Dave Darlington
Ryan Streber
Todd Carder

photo: Hiroyuki Seo
design: Ken Muroi

Robert Sadin

The second single “Sól” from my upcoming album Solúna is out now! You can listen to it here. Please check out the new video as well. I hope you enjoy it!

The album is coming out worldwide on June 2nd. Stay tuned for more news!

2ndシングル「Sól」も世界配信開始！スタジオ映像もYouTubeチャンネルにて公開！ぜひフルバージョンでご覧ください。

Listen here

Watch here

New single “Ishonsho Abe” is now out in Japan!!! Music video is on my YouTube channel as well! Check it out!

アルバム収録曲の中から「Ishonsho Abe」先行配信開始しました！！！YouTubeチャンネルにてMVも公開！渾身の一作が完成したのでぜひ見てください！

Listen here

Watch MV

Written by Martha Kato

Words/chants: Yoruba traditional

Martha Kato - piano, vocals 
Moto Fukushima - bass 
Keita Ogawa - drums, percussion 

Michael Rodriguez - trumpet 
John Ellis - tenor saxophone 
Ryan Keberle - trombone 
Itai Kriss - flute 

Sarah Elizabeth Charles - vocals 
Takafumi Nikaido - shekere, congas 

Recorded by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio 
Assistant engineer Edwin Huet 
Recorded by Todd Carder at The Bunker Studio 
Recorded by David Darlington at Bass Hit Recording 

Mixed & mastered by David Darlington at Bass Hit Recording

9月12日(月)コットンクラブ公演決定しました！ついにニューアルバム「Solúna」出ます！！リリースに先駆けて会場にて先行販売も行います。世界で最初にアルバムをゲットできるのはこの日！！1showなのでご予約はお早めに。皆様のお越しをお待ちしております！

Happy to announce that I will be back at Cotton Club on September 12th with my 8 piece band! It's going to be my album release show for Japan. I'm working on the US/world release but I will keep you posted..! See you soon Japan!

丸の内COTTON CLUB 

2022 9.12 mon. 
open 6:00pm / start 7:00pm 
※1日1.showになります。 

MEMBER 
加藤真亜沙 (p,vo) 
広瀬未来 (tp,flh) 
西口明宏 (ts) 
土井徳浩 (fl,cl,ss,bcl) 
和田充弘 (tb) 
中林薫平 (b) 
小田桐和寛 (ds) 
Kan (per)