The Time After Five Jazz Orchestra

Welcome to the homepage of the"Time After Five" Jazz Orchestra.

The Time After Five is Sendai's finest jazz big band.
The band was formed in 1992, with Syoichi YAMAUCHI (trumpeter of the famous Tokyo Union Big Band) serving as the music director.
The TAF takes the cutting-edge approach to big band music, and has been pursuing the new style of big band.

The repertoire includes: Frank Mantooth, Matt Harris, Tom Kubis, Don Menza, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Charles Mingus, to name only a few.
Currently, the band has SAWANO Motohiro, an alumnus of Berklee School of Music, as a composer/arranger for the band, and plays his compositions as well.

This ensemble has been playing for various events in Sendai area, including the performances in the annual Jozenji Street Jazz Festival for twelve years.
(Notably, the band's performance at the festival in 2002 was broadcasted by NHK-FM nation-wide.)

The TAF has also enjoyed successful gigs for over ten years. Lately the band is expanding the area of playing. Some of the recent gigs were in Yamagata (2003), New York City (2003), Tochigi (2004), as well as in Sendai.

Currently the band is looking for a trombonist and a trumpeter.
If you are interested, please send an e-mail.
The rehearsal is usually on the first and the third Sundays, starting at 5pm. FYI, here's the rehearsal Studio.

Photograph by Takaaki Matsuda
Web Art design by Kazuo Takahashi
Text by Makoto Kadowaki