Award winning saxophonist, Irwin Hall has toured the world with artist like Melody Gardot, John Legend, and 3x Grammy/Tony winning jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater just to mention a few. Irwin also has a degree from Princeton and has lived and worked in Japan. Join Irwin and Lorens, as they talk about traveling as a musician, playing with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Capoeira, and other carelessly related topics. Music credit: "Smile for Your Lover Comes" by Irwin Hall.

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IRWIN HALL is an award-winning internationally renowned saxophonist, flutist and clarinetist. He got his start in public school and quickly fell in love with music. He attended Princeton University on a full ride to study East Asian foreign relations, unsure that a musician's life was the right way forward. He learned Japanese and after graduating moved to Tokyo, Japan to work as a research assistant to the Editor-In-Chief at a major Japanese newspaper. Not long after, while at the Tokyo Jazz Festival, he ran into songstress Melody Gardot who heard him play and immediately hired him to tour with her band. He quit his job, packed his bags and went on back-to-back international tours as the featured soloist with Melody, earning rave reviews and write-ups around the world. He has since gone on to tour, perform, and record with 3x Grammy/Tony Award winning NEA Jazz Master Dee Dee Bridgewater, soul icon John Legend, bass virtuoso Charnett Moffett, and countless more. He has performed in cities around the world including London, Tokyo, Prague, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris, Pori, Shanghai, Melbourne, etc and continues to perform and lead his own band. Irwin will be releasing his first solo album in 2018 entitled, "Smile, For Your Lover Comes."