{"version":1,"state":"ready_for_manual_post","account":"@openearmedia","feature":{"slug":"hina-oikawa-short-songs-tokyo-2026","title":"Hina Oikawa makes a ten-piece jazz language from 31 sounds","pageUrl":"https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/hina-oikawa-short-songs-tokyo-2026","eventStartDate":"2026-08-19T19:30:00+09:00","updatedAt":"2026-08-01T01:30:00Z"},"caption":"Thirty-one sounds. Ten musicians. One score built to survive a change of voices.\n\nOn Short Songs, Queens-based alto saxophonist, composer and tanka poet Hina Oikawa uses the Japanese form’s 5-7-5-7-7 frame as lyric, phrase and improvising architecture. Her August 19 Tokyo release show keeps the album’s six-horn, voice and rhythm-section design—but only Oikawa and co-composer Naoya Ogura return from the studio band.\n\nYasuki Sogabe, Yu Kuga, Hisae Ohtomari, Nanami Haruta, Yurie Nejime, Shota Lee, Evan Gregor and Gene Jackson make this a new reading, with live visuals by Ken Ito. Lee replaces the originally announced David Berkman.\n\nDoors 7 p.m.; music 7:30 at Shinjuku Pit Inn. The second set is scheduled to stream for subscribers with no archive. Read the full feature and listening guide: jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/hina-oikawa-short-songs-tokyo-2026","hashtags":["#HinaOikawa","#ShortSongs","#Tanka","#TokyoJazz","#ShinjukuPitInn"],"mentions":[{"role":"artist","name":"Hina Oikawa","handle":"@hina_oikawa","verifiedBySourceId":"oikawa-about"},{"role":"venue","name":"Shinjuku Pit Inn","handle":"@pitinn_shinjuku","verifiedBySourceId":"pit-inn-instagram"},{"role":"tenor saxophone","name":"Yasuki Sogabe","handle":"@yasukiphone","verifiedBySourceId":"sogabe-seiko"},{"role":"baritone saxophone","name":"Yu Kuga","handle":"@kugajazz","verifiedBySourceId":"kuga-instagram"},{"role":"trumpet","name":"Hisae Ohtomari","handle":"@hisaetrumpet","verifiedBySourceId":"ohtomari-instagram"},{"role":"trumpet","name":"Naoya Ogura","handle":"@naoyogura","verifiedBySourceId":"ogura-instagram"},{"role":"trombone","name":"Nanami Haruta","handle":"@nanamiharuta","verifiedBySourceId":"haruta-seiko"},{"role":"voice","name":"Yurie Nejime","handle":"@nejiyu","verifiedBySourceId":"nejime-instagram"},{"role":"piano","name":"Shota Lee","handle":"@shota_lee","verifiedBySourceId":"lee-instagram"},{"role":"bass","name":"Evan Gregor","handle":"@evan.gregor","verifiedBySourceId":"gregor-official"},{"role":"drums","name":"Gene Jackson","handle":"@jackgene","verifiedBySourceId":"jackson-instagram"},{"role":"visuals","name":"Ken Ito","handle":"@ken__110","verifiedBySourceId":"ito-instagram"}],"slides":[{"order":1,"url":"https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/hina-oikawa-short-songs-tokyo-2026/social/01.jpg","alt":"Cover slide with original Open Ear Media artwork: thirty-one cells grouped 5-7-5-7-7 face a ten-node ensemble diagram above the words ‘31 sounds, 10 players.’","sha256":"b667ce7dc6c11d769dcc9050cbb607ac498f55c204cd8097ab49d1181ce9ce02"},{"order":2,"url":"https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/hina-oikawa-short-songs-tokyo-2026/social/02.jpg","alt":"Timeline slide: Oikawa begins a daily tanka practice in 2020, presents core repertoire at Queens College in 2023, premieres the ten-piece Short Songs project in 2025, and releases the album before revoicing it in Tokyo in 2026.","sha256":"3813d54d9512e4a06b7f904dcbfe9295f1c620803a6519d4e2f364adc4306127"},{"order":3,"url":"https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/hina-oikawa-short-songs-tokyo-2026/social/03.jpg","alt":"Event slide for August 19, 2026 at Shinjuku Pit Inn. Current lineup: Hina Oikawa, Yasuki Sogabe, Yu Kuga, Hisae Ohtomari, Naoya Ogura, Nanami Haruta, Yurie Nejime, Shota Lee, Evan Gregor, Gene Jackson and visual artist Ken Ito.","sha256":"49c2952604c5c753464118a5dacc83d9601abe504259b44ee1f31259ebeb4e91"},{"order":4,"url":"https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/hina-oikawa-short-songs-tokyo-2026/social/04.jpg","alt":"Verified-account slide listing Hina Oikawa, Shinjuku Pit Inn, Yasuki Sogabe, Yu Kuga, Hisae Ohtomari, Naoya Ogura, Nanami Haruta, Yurie Nejime, Shota Lee, Evan Gregor, Gene Jackson and Ken Ito; original artwork credited to Open Ear Media.","sha256":"e62cea2fe8e2375cdb1a72b7e3ca5284c30be5bbb68ee15206863a82ac253a49"}],"contactSheetUrl":"https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/hina-oikawa-short-songs-tokyo-2026/social/contact-sheet.jpg","altText":"Four-slide Open Ear Media carousel. Slide one visualizes tanka’s thirty-one sound units as groups of five, seven, five, seven and seven around a ten-part ensemble. Slide two traces the project from Oikawa’s 2020 tanka practice through her 2023 recital, 2025 first Short Songs concert and 2026 debut album. Slide three gives the August 19 Shinjuku Pit Inn details and complete current lineup, including Shota Lee’s replacement of David Berkman. Slide four lists verified Instagram accounts and credits the original artwork.","automaticPostingAllowed":false}