Yuma Uesaka

A boundary-pushing saxophonist and clarinetist, Yuma Uesaka is known for his work in modern creative jazz, avant-garde, and new classical music. Uesaka has been active since the 2000s and came to wider attention with 2019's Ocelot, the eponymous debut from his trio with Colin Hinton and Cat Toren. In 2021, he released Streams, a duo collaboration with pianist Marilyn Crispell. Born in 1991 in London, Uesaka lived in Nagoya, Japan before moving with his family to West Bloomfield, Michigan at the age of eight. There, he started on the saxophone at age ten and added clarinet two...