Apr 12, 2011

Meet the artist#6 Yasuhito Mori

Yasuhito Mori has been playing the bass since 70s, and played with many jazz and classical group in Japan. In 1981, he has moved to Sweden, and started playing with many swedish jazz group such as Mount Everest, Bohuslän Big Band and duo project with Anders Hagberg, Winduo. Yasuhito has started jazz international exchange program, "Scandinavian Connection" and produced more than 30 tours to Japan with Swedish artists. He literally has been a bridge between Japanese and Swedish jazz culture.
Right now, he is playing as a regular bass player with Bohuslän Big Band, Anders Persson Trio, Ewan Svensson Quartet, Tommy Kotter Trio, Mike Del Ferro Trio, Sven Eric Dahlberg Trio and also continuing his artistic collaboration with Anders Hagberg in Winduo for more than 25 years.
Yasuhito has been also inveted to play with jazz giants like Stan Getz, Lee Konitz and Putte Wickman around the world.

For this occasion, Yasuhito will play with a jazz pianist, Simon Westman. Their experience of creating a strong GBG-JPN connection has something special to our performance. It will be a sweet show, guaranteed!!