Award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Zac Zinger
makes his debut with twelve original tracks combining jazz fusion and Japanese traditional
music. He does so by introducing the shakuhachi, a primitive five-holed
Japanese bamboo flute, to the jazz fusion quartet. A collection of his best
compositions for small jazz ensemble over 10 years, each piece is
through-composed with meticulous detail, and together display Zinger’s
decade-long evolution as a jazz musician gathering influence from his immersion
in American and Japanese cultures.
He is joined by Adam Neely on bass, Sharik Hasan on piano,
Luke Markham on drums, and a host of special guests. Zac plays saxophones,
flute, clarinet, shakuhachi, EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument), and a host of
ethnic flutes. His playing and writing can be heard on 27 albums and counting,
as well as the
soundtracks of Street Fighter V, Final Fantasy XV:
Assassin's Festival, Just Cause 4, RWBY, Lazer Team, and many more. He has also
had the pleasure of performing in thirteen countries and with the likes of
Nobuo Uematsu, The 8-bit Big Band, and Adam Neely’s Jazz School.
In 2017 with a grant from the Asian Cultural Council, he
conducted a five-month residency in Japan, studying the shakuhachi and its
traditional music under masters Kinya Sogawa, Keisuke Zenyoji, and Akihito
Obama. Zac was invited to perform and speak at the 2018 World Shakuhachi
Festival in London, UK on the usage of the shakuhachi in the jazz medium.
As a writer, Zac has written/arranged for internationally
acclaimed multimedia including Street Fighter V, Jump Force, Just Cause 4,
Mobile Suit Gundam, and RWBY, which reached #1 on the iTunes charts in 2016.
Awards include a 2016 Asian Cultural Council Artist Fellowship; the 2012, 2013,
2014, and 2015 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards; the 2013 ASCAP Johnny Mandel
Prize; and the 2009 and 2010 Herb Pomeroy Jazz Composition Awards.
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