The new one to watch out for is Kii. She won the Hit Like a Girl Competition in 2022 at the age of 10 following in the footsteps of Kanade Sato (who is a judge for the contest now) who won in 2014.
As good as Senri solo's are, what you are missing is how she "drives" a band and interacts with other band instruments. It's what I think truly sets her apart and why she is in such high demand among rock and jazz acts in Japan, as well as Jazz internationally. Musicians want to perform with her. Check out a video from Rie aka Suzaku called "Breaking the Limits" or a performance with her group "The Jazz Avengers" called "Hunter".
I agree completely !!!!! I'm a big fan of The Jazz Avengers. I don't there is a better ensemble band in jazz/funk today. I first heard about Senri when I was following the life and career of Yoyoka Samo, who is going to school in the US at present. I also was a big fan of Juna Serita from the Tokyo jazz scene. There are so many great female jazz artists in Japan. So many great sax and woodwind players, Uko Saxy and The Sax Triplets to name two. Shamisen player Shinobu Kawashima is another up and coming jazz artist.
I was wondering if you'd get around to Senri. I began playing drums and lessons in 1964, and played for 15 years. I've kept up with the music scene ever since, although I leaned more toward Jazz and Blues in the late 70's. I've followed Senri for over six years. Senri is the best drummer I've heard over all of these years, no matter the genre of music. She could do at age 16 what Neal Peart did at his best.
As others mentioned, Senri's work with Jazz Avengers is top notch. I have seen her playing since she was Yoyoka's age while her technical abilities were always impressive, her performances always felt stiff and kind of left me cold. Since she has been playing with Juna Serita though it has all pulled together for some fantastic performances.
If you want to introduce a drummer to Senri I would suggest her version of "Stratus", performed at Rocking The Castle Jazz Fest in France when she was 18. "Stratus" was written by respected jazz drummer Billy Cobham and was one of Prince's favorites to play live. Most drummers are aware of it, and Senri killed it. The video of the performance can be found on Senri's official YT page as well as Drummerworld's official YT page. Then there's also the 'drum battle' between Senri and Tamu Murata to Senri's original "Real Life" that's so worth showing. I'm just saying, there's a lot of a great Senri performance videos outside these Drumeo type solos.
Check out her performance at the Paris Bag Show 2018, she now has a group she put together called The Jazz Avengers. They are amazing, she is now about 25 years old.
Interesting fact: Sen-ree is the American Pronunciation. In the Japanese language it is Sen-dee. This right from the little lady in an interview from 2022 in Canada. She is a sweet young woman.
I believe she was 17 when this was recorded. Her drums sound SOOOOOO damn good. By the way, those drum sticks she uses are special made for her.... about three inches longer than normal, so she gets more power from her small frame. The out-go tune you played was Senri, and you should watch and/or react to that also.
Loved Ron's look of amazement when she started. And halfway through he still couldn't believe it. I have my fingers crossed that Nyango Star is coming up. Though they might be one and the same.
There must be something in the water when it comes to female drummers in Japan. Senri, Yoyoka, Akane, Rina (SCANDAL), Tamu (Nemophila), Mira (Girlfriend) and Shiho (Stereopony). Another up-and-comer is Yeogeun from the South Korean band Rolling Quartz. Just fantastic.
Japan takes music and instrument playing very seriously and girls are encouraged to continue their music training through after school music clubs in addition to the excellent music classes required in Japanese education.
@@noelle3551 They all call Senri the "leader", you can hear it on some of their short behind the scene videos on their channel. The Jazz Avengers originally started out as a one-time thing called Senri's Seven. Senri chose all of them as members for a one-time gig for an advertisement (I believe), but it clicked so well that they decided to rename themselves and go on. Miku Yonezawa is amazing though, her solo albums are my favourites of all the albums I have checked out by the Jazz Avengers members next to Senri's projects (which I already knew). And I bought albums by all members except for their keyboard player Marie Takeda (I couldn't find any). I listen to Miku Yonezawa's album Exotic Gravity quite regularly, it is amazing.
@@noelle3551 Miku is a band MEMBER, but Senri is the leader of The Jazz Avengers - she is named as the leader on the band's web page. The origin of JA is given in the video called "Senri's Seven". However Miku does lead her own excellent band with longtime collaborator Etsuji Ozawa (guitar)
There is a great video from about 11 years ago (Senri must have been 15 or so) with Senri and a bunch of young jazz musicians. I am pretty sure it's from a DVD by sax player Yucco Miller (who probably went by her Japanese name back then). 『Lover Come Back To Me』 大西由希子×川口千里(Senri Kawaguchi)×岩永真奈×長崎祥子 (it will probably not be the best fit for people who don't enjoy heavy sax playing) It's one of my favourite videos of Senri (and the sax player Yucco Miller) because you can see how good they already are at such a young age and it shows Senri's ability to read the soloists and react to what they play. I go back to that video regularly. I would say Yucco Miller probably steals the show overall, but all 4 of them get to shine, the keyboard player is really good as well. The bass solo is probably my least favourite part, but the bassist does a great job during the rest of the track and the solo is certainly not bad either.
Yes, she was born in 1997 (early January), so she is close to 27 now. She started playing drums at 5 though en started learning under the late Kozo Suganuma (he passed away in 2021) at 8 years old.
Nice to see that there are female drummers living across the ocean. Do you think this South Korean woman has talent for playing the drums? " Dream theater As I Am drum cover by Ami Kim (212) "
Senri Kawaguchi is the best female drummer in the world. Even when she is compared to male drummers, very few are on her talent level. She is in the top 500 list of drummers in the world of which there are only 13 female drummers on the list. When Senri was in high school, she was into rock and metal, but eventuall migrated to fusion and jazz. Here is on older video of her playing Frankenstein. ruclips.net/video/KuDNJ2oStmE/видео.html Flux Capicator is Senri's signature song, ruclips.net/video/ZZ4WpTaCeic/видео.html Senri is an excellent musician up on stage. Here she performs with her latest band, The Jazz Avengers. ruclips.net/video/lHQEHMcxCJE/видео.html What keeps Senri below the radar is that she rarely plays anything outside of her current scope of interest which has a narrow bandwidth when it comes to followers.
Senri started at about age 4. Watch: Sin June No Rain or type in: Nerdy girl is a better drummer than You, she may have been 9, 12 years old. I love her, been following her for years.
A couple of Senri's projects (next to her solo albums): - Kiyo*Sen (jazz fusion together with Kiyomi Otaka on keys, check yesterdays video, they are a project for about 10 years now) - The Jazz Avengers (8 amazing musicians, 4 of them sax players) - 坐音 ZAON (jazz fusion mixed with traditional instruments) - Uragaeru (not sure if that's going to be an ongoing thing. Jazz fusion, probably the least accesible of all of these, as a tribute to the band Fragile, the band of her late teacher and mentor Kozo Suganuma) I highly recommend checking those out for people who are interested, although all of them are jazz fusion or jazz in general. She also collaborates with a lot of other musicians and projects (like jazz musicians seem to do) including being being part of the "Blue Note Tokyo All-Star Jazz Orchestra" a year or so ago. But that is a pretty big jazz orchestra and the videos are pretty long (not the best reaction material). She has also played on an album of Rie a.k.a. Suzaku (a mainly rock/metal guitarist) and has performed with her live as well. Although Rie has a jazz fusion band (called Muses) nowadays as well with an other great Japanese drummer Kanade Sato.
Im 64 and have seen a lot of drummers of many styles. I'm no expert on the correct fundamentals of drumming. So if I tell you that a drummer is good in my opinion, it's a good bet that they are. Senri is better than good. She's in that elite group.
Yes, Senri is 26 y/o. Was at her birthday show last January 2023 and she shared her birthday cake with us, even served it up to everyone. She definitely hits hard, even harder than Akane, Po! (Seen both in person, Akane most recently at Yokoari). 🦍🍌
Not gonna lie... I wanna see Alex and Geddy grab Senri and start touring again. Pay her a couple a million bucks. ( And yeah, she looks about 16 years old! )
I can’t see into the future, but I think it’s pretty safe to say that there is zero percent chance of Senri touring with Rush. I could give at least a dozen reasons why that is. Maybe IF they tour Japan she would make a guest appearance, like she did with The Aristocrats. (Guthrie Govan) Anyway, she’s already in about six excellent bands - I hope you're enjoying what SHE wants to do - right now in the present.
@@peterb7923 It's just an idea. It would be amazing to see Senri in RUSH. And she deserves to be there, if she wants it. I always enjoy everything she does. I love The Jazz Avengers.
Sorry, but no... That's not shade on Yoyoka, but just recognizing that the latter has a ways to go before being at this level. Is Yoyoka at her current age better than Senri at that age? Debatable...but a much more realistic comparison.
Yoyoka BETTER? No just different. There are so many things that set Senri apart from the others. When she plays with a band and there are many, That is when all the things shine brighter.
I can guarantee you that even Yoyoka doesn't agree with you on that one. She is an extremely talented drummer and certainly worth checking out, but Senri has been playing drums much longer at the same high level, she is also playing more demanding genres (although Yoyoka's progressive track she recently released is extremely impressive). Yoyoka is great though, especially for her age. Senri was as well at that age, so I'm sure Yoyoka will keep progressing and becoming better as well. So no shade to Yoyoka, it's remarkable how good she. And Yoyoka has beaten the record of being the youngest drummer to be featured in drummerworld's top 500 drummer list by a couple of years. Senri was 13 and Yoyoka 11 when they were included if I'm not mistaken. I also really like Kanade Sato as well, who was also very young when she started (3 I believe) and is an amazing drummer in her own right (she's now 20 or 21).
Senri, Kanade Sato, Yoyoka, Nao Kawakita, Haruna, Tamu Murata, Junna, the list of sick japanese female drummers is long.
...and Akane!
The new one to watch out for is Kii. She won the Hit Like a Girl Competition in 2022 at the age of 10 following in the footsteps of Kanade Sato (who is a judge for the contest now) who won in 2014.
@@rickychau7687 Awesome! I'll check out her stuff. Thanks
My fave non-Asian is Anika Nilles. Check her out if you haven't seen her.
You mentioned some really talented drummers here!
Senri is 26 now.
That solo for drumeo was five years ago.
As good as Senri solo's are, what you are missing is how she "drives" a band and interacts with other band instruments. It's what I think truly sets her apart and why she is in such high demand among rock and jazz acts in Japan, as well as Jazz internationally. Musicians want to perform with her. Check out a video from Rie aka Suzaku called "Breaking the Limits" or a performance with her group "The Jazz Avengers" called "Hunter".
I agree completely !!!!! I'm a big fan of The Jazz Avengers. I don't there is a better ensemble band in jazz/funk today. I first heard about Senri when I was following the life and career of Yoyoka Samo, who is going to school in the US at present. I also was a big fan of Juna Serita from the Tokyo jazz scene. There are so many great female jazz artists in Japan. So many great sax and woodwind players, Uko Saxy and The Sax Triplets to name two. Shamisen player Shinobu Kawashima is another up and coming jazz artist.
Siehe live Auftritt mit Triangel 2017 und 2016, eine der besten Schlagzeuger bzw. Schlagzeugerin der Welt
So true. She is amazing!
*solos, not "solo's"
I was wondering if you'd get around to Senri. I began playing drums and lessons in 1964, and played for 15 years. I've kept up with the music scene ever since, although I leaned more toward Jazz and Blues in the late 70's. I've followed Senri for over six years. Senri is the best drummer I've heard over all of these years, no matter the genre of music. She could do at age 16 what Neal Peart did at his best.
Senri is in my top 5 drummers.
I wish she toured in the USA with her band their all incredible as board player the guy playing the keyboards is so amazing to as well as the rest
As others mentioned, Senri's work with Jazz Avengers is top notch. I have seen her playing since she was Yoyoka's age while her technical abilities were always impressive, her performances always felt stiff and kind of left me cold. Since she has been playing with Juna Serita though it has all pulled together for some fantastic performances.
If you want to introduce a drummer to Senri I would suggest her version of "Stratus", performed at Rocking The Castle Jazz Fest in France when she was 18. "Stratus" was written by respected jazz drummer Billy Cobham and was one of Prince's favorites to play live. Most drummers are aware of it, and Senri killed it. The video of the performance can be found on Senri's official YT page as well as Drummerworld's official YT page. Then there's also the 'drum battle' between Senri and Tamu Murata to Senri's original "Real Life" that's so worth showing. I'm just saying, there's a lot of a great Senri performance videos outside these Drumeo type solos.
Check out her performance at the Paris Bag Show 2018, she now has a group she put together called The Jazz Avengers. They are amazing, she is now about 25 years old.
She’s 26.
Interesting fact: Sen-ree is the American Pronunciation. In the Japanese language it is Sen-dee. This right from the little lady in an interview from 2022 in Canada. She is a sweet young woman.
Sen-d-lee. Japanese R is pronounced as "dl".
Sen-LEE
Very mature drummer
I believe she was 17 when this was recorded. Her drums sound SOOOOOO damn good. By the way, those drum sticks she uses are special made for her.... about three inches longer than normal, so she gets more power from her small frame. The out-go tune you played was Senri, and you should watch and/or react to that also.
Loved Ron's look of amazement when she started. And halfway through he still couldn't believe it. I have my fingers crossed that Nyango Star is coming up. Though they might be one and the same.
D Drive another great Japanese Band.
There must be something in the water when it comes to female drummers in Japan. Senri, Yoyoka, Akane, Rina (SCANDAL), Tamu (Nemophila), Mira (Girlfriend) and Shiho (Stereopony). Another up-and-comer is Yeogeun from the South Korean band Rolling Quartz. Just fantastic.
Japan takes music and instrument playing very seriously and girls are encouraged to continue their music training through after school music clubs in addition to the excellent music classes required in Japanese education.
If you did not notice, she is in a popcorn pattern dress. The snare sounds like popcorn. Call it a bit of humor from Senri.
Every one has the influence from the weckl sound and his chops. Whom is my favorite drummer
Hi Joel, you have to watch the Band- The JAZZ AVENGERS , It is the Band of Senri K. One of the best Bands i have listen!
One of the band leaders is Miku Yonezawa ( Tenor Sax) just not Senri!
@@noelle3551
They all call Senri the "leader", you can hear it on some of their short behind the scene videos on their channel. The Jazz Avengers originally started out as a one-time thing called Senri's Seven. Senri chose all of them as members for a one-time gig for an advertisement (I believe), but it clicked so well that they decided to rename themselves and go on. Miku Yonezawa is amazing though, her solo albums are my favourites of all the albums I have checked out by the Jazz Avengers members next to Senri's projects (which I already knew). And I bought albums by all members except for their keyboard player Marie Takeda (I couldn't find any). I listen to Miku Yonezawa's album Exotic Gravity quite regularly, it is amazing.
@@noelle3551 Miku is a band MEMBER, but Senri is the leader of The Jazz Avengers - she is named as the leader on the band's web page. The origin of JA is given in the video called "Senri's Seven". However Miku does lead her own excellent band with longtime collaborator Etsuji Ozawa (guitar)
Senri is a band leader as well! So many people want to play with her, its insane.Not to mention: she is a lovely woman, as well!
Agreed that JA is great but I've suggested adding a horn section for a fuller sound. Juna and Chi-tan are great but the band is lop-sided with sax.
There is a great video from about 11 years ago (Senri must have been 15 or so) with Senri and a bunch of young jazz musicians. I am pretty sure it's from a DVD by sax player Yucco Miller (who probably went by her Japanese name back then). 『Lover Come Back To Me』 大西由希子×川口千里(Senri Kawaguchi)×岩永真奈×長崎祥子 (it will probably not be the best fit for people who don't enjoy heavy sax playing)
It's one of my favourite videos of Senri (and the sax player Yucco Miller) because you can see how good they already are at such a young age and it shows Senri's ability to read the soloists and react to what they play. I go back to that video regularly. I would say Yucco Miller probably steals the show overall, but all 4 of them get to shine, the keyboard player is really good as well. The bass solo is probably my least favourite part, but the bassist does a great job during the rest of the track and the solo is certainly not bad either.
She was not 5 and not 12. She was rather 20+. But anyhow, she was VERY good at 12 also.
Yes, she was born in 1997 (early January), so she is close to 27 now. She started playing drums at 5 though en started learning under the late Kozo Suganuma (he passed away in 2021)
at 8 years old.
Please react more Senri Kawaguchi
Nice to see that there are female drummers living across the ocean.
Do you think this South Korean woman has talent for playing the drums?
" Dream theater As I Am drum cover by Ami Kim (212) "
Senri Kawaguchi is the best female drummer in the world. Even when she is compared to male drummers, very few are on her talent level.
She is in the top 500 list of drummers in the world of which there are only 13 female drummers on the list.
When Senri was in high school, she was into rock and metal, but eventuall migrated to fusion and jazz. Here is on older video of her playing Frankenstein.
ruclips.net/video/KuDNJ2oStmE/видео.html
Flux Capicator is Senri's signature song,
ruclips.net/video/ZZ4WpTaCeic/видео.html
Senri is an excellent musician up on stage. Here she performs with her latest band, The Jazz Avengers.
ruclips.net/video/lHQEHMcxCJE/видео.html
What keeps Senri below the radar is that she rarely plays anything outside of her current scope of interest which has a narrow bandwidth when it comes to followers.
Eine der besten Schlagzeuger bzw. Schlagzeugerin der Welt, siehe Livekonzert mit Triangel 2017 und 2016 oder mit Miku Yonezawa und Ami Nakazomo 2021
🥁❤
Let him watch JUNNA and YOYOKA do drum cover.....
Senri started at about age 4. Watch: Sin June No Rain or type in: Nerdy girl is a better drummer than You, she may have been 9, 12 years old. I love her, been following her for years.
A couple of Senri's projects (next to her solo albums):
- Kiyo*Sen (jazz fusion together with Kiyomi Otaka on keys, check yesterdays video, they are a project for about 10 years now)
- The Jazz Avengers (8 amazing musicians, 4 of them sax players)
- 坐音 ZAON (jazz fusion mixed with traditional instruments)
- Uragaeru (not sure if that's going to be an ongoing thing. Jazz fusion, probably the least accesible of all of these, as a tribute to the band Fragile, the band of her late teacher and mentor Kozo Suganuma)
I highly recommend checking those out for people who are interested, although all of them are jazz fusion or jazz in general.
She also collaborates with a lot of other musicians and projects (like jazz musicians seem to do) including being being part of the "Blue Note Tokyo All-Star Jazz Orchestra" a year or so ago. But that is a pretty big jazz orchestra and the videos are pretty long (not the best reaction material).
She has also played on an album of Rie a.k.a. Suzaku (a mainly rock/metal guitarist) and has performed with her live as well. Although Rie has a jazz fusion band (called Muses) nowadays as well with an other great Japanese drummer Kanade Sato.
Im 64 and have seen a lot of drummers of many styles. I'm no expert on the correct fundamentals of drumming. So if I tell you that a drummer is good in my opinion, it's a good bet that they are. Senri is better than good. She's in that elite group.
🥁🦎Senri Kawaguchi & Kanade Sato🥁👸..together in the same band🤯with Rie aka Suzaku🎸
🔍Urban Highway / Summer Carnival ＞ Rie a.k.a. Suzaku (G)／川口千里 (Dr)／佐藤奏 (Dr)／星野李奈 (B)／池尻喜子 (Kb) 🔍
🔍Blue Wind (Jeff Beck Cover) ＞ Rie a.k.a. Suzaku (G)／川口千里 (Dr)／佐藤奏 (Dr)／星野李奈 (B)／池尻喜子 (Kb) 🔍
Yes, Senri is 26 y/o. Was at her birthday show last January 2023 and she shared her birthday cake with us, even served it up to everyone. She definitely hits hard, even harder than Akane, Po! (Seen both in person, Akane most recently at Yokoari). 🦍🍌
流石、手数王のお弟子さん。ｗ
Not gonna lie... I wanna see Alex and Geddy grab Senri and start touring again.
Pay her a couple a million bucks. ( And yeah, she looks about 16 years old! )
I can’t see into the future, but I think it’s pretty safe to say that there is zero percent chance of Senri touring with Rush. I could give at least a dozen reasons why that is. Maybe IF they tour Japan she would make a guest appearance, like she did with The Aristocrats. (Guthrie Govan) Anyway, she’s already in about six excellent bands - I hope you're enjoying what SHE wants to do - right now in the present.
@@peterb7923 It's just an idea. It would be amazing to see Senri in RUSH. And she deserves to be there, if she wants it. I always enjoy everything she does. I love The Jazz Avengers.
She's better Kai, by a long shot.
Senri is amazing. However...Yoyoka is better. You should show your buddy her.
I would Throw in Junna aswell.
Sorry, but no... That's not shade on Yoyoka, but just recognizing that the latter has a ways to go before being at this level. Is Yoyoka at her current age better than Senri at that age? Debatable...but a much more realistic comparison.
Yoyoka BETTER? No just different. There are so many things that set Senri apart from the others. When she plays with a band and there are many, That is when all the things shine brighter.
I can guarantee you that even Yoyoka doesn't agree with you on that one. She is an extremely talented drummer and certainly worth checking out, but Senri has been playing drums much longer at the same high level, she is also playing more demanding genres (although Yoyoka's progressive track she recently released is extremely impressive). Yoyoka is great though, especially for her age. Senri was as well at that age, so I'm sure Yoyoka will keep progressing and becoming better as well. So no shade to Yoyoka, it's remarkable how good she. And Yoyoka has beaten the record of being the youngest drummer to be featured in drummerworld's top 500 drummer list by a couple of years. Senri was 13 and Yoyoka 11 when they were included if I'm not mistaken. I also really like Kanade Sato as well, who was also very young when she started (3 I believe) and is an amazing drummer in her own right (she's now 20 or 21).
Yoyoka and Senri are THE best in their fields.......bar none! My Favorites, for sure!