Tokyo International Singers, conducted by Marcel L'Esperance, will present its 104th concert on July 9 at Suntory Small Hall, Akasaka, Tokyo. This "Summer Serenade 2006" features Latin-American music. Guest artists on the program will be the Mike Price Jazz Ensemble.
Mike Price formed this quintet in Tokyo in 1993 in order to "perform original compositions and selections from the modern jazz repertoire."
Originally from Chicago and the son of a pilot, he is a versatile, imaginative musician who discovered the trumpet when he was in fifth grade. Thereafter, throughout school days in Indiana, "nobody had to tell me to practice," he said.