Shoji Aketagawa (明田川荘之), born October 23, 1950 in Tokyo, Japan is an avant-garde jazz pianist, composer, and ocarina player. He is also the owner of the Aketa No Mise jazz club in western Tokyo and the associated Aketa's Disk label. His first encounter with keyboard instruments began in the first grade of elementary school when Hisashi Kayama, a pupil of his father (by trade a sculptor), taught him how to play the organ. After playing the electone for four and a half years at his mother's suggestion Read more on Last.fm