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Jeffrey Takiguchi

Originally from Honolulu, HI., Jeffrey arrived in Los Angeles in 1978. In 1982, he toured the world with the Ray Charles Orchestra. He has enjoyed a varied career backing such artists as Ron Townsen of the Fifth Dimension and Carmen McRae. He is most proud of co-producing a CD called Music To Remember, featuring music of the 1940s by interned Japanese American singers and musicians, and his Hindsight CD in 2005, with his quintet. He has studied bass with Herb Mickman, David Young (LA Opera), Lou Kabok, Dennis Trembly (LA Phil), and Peter Rofe (LA Phil). He also studied jazz improvisation with Charlie Shoemake and has taken film scoring classes at UCLA Extension, also serving as contractor.

Jeffrey completed his Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies at USC in 2004, and currently teaches at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, CA. At COC, he has taught Music Appreciation, Fundamentals of Music, Electric Bass Studies I & II, Society and Rock and Roll, Development of Jazz, and Applied Music (electric and acoustic bass). He also has been an accompanist and arranger for the Lab Band. He is frequently sought out to do arrangements for other groups or to transcribe complicated bass solos and materials. Besides performing with his quintet, he also had worked with legendary jazz pianist, Frank Strazzeri and renown drummer Chuck Flores Quartet, Octet & Big Band, and the Pat Longo Hollywood Big Band, Asia-America Symphony, San Fernando Symphony and Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra. He played with a string orchestra on Taylor Swifts CD Reds.