Kaori Kobayashi

Kaori Kobayashi (小林 香織), is a Japanese jazz saxophonist and flautist. She grew up in Tokyo.

Biography
Kobayashi was born October 20, 1981, in Kanagawa Prefecture. Her father was a photographer and her mother, a piano teacher. Beginning at a very young age, Kobayashi learned to play the piano. When she was 13 years old she joined a brass band and started to play the flute. Four years later she stopped playing in the band, instead choosing to start a relationship with the saxophone. After that she turned to jazz.

After four years, having learned from Bob Zangu how to play the saxophone in a jazz setting, she entered the Senzoku College of Music. After graduating, she got a contract with the label Victor Entertainment and her first album, Solar, appeared.

Albums

 * Solar, Kaori's Collection (2005)
 * Fine (2006)
 * Glow (2007)
 * Shiny (2008)
 * The Golden Best (2009)
 * Luv Sax (2009)
 * Precious (2011)
 * Seventh (2012)
 * Urban Stream (2013)
 * Spirit (2014)
 * STORY: 10th Anniversary (2015)
 * Melody (2016)
 * Be myself! (2018)