Tomoaki Baba
was born in 1992 in Sapporo, Japan and began playing saxophone when he was 7 years old. He attended the renowned Berklee 5-week summer program in 2007, 2008, 2009 as a full-scholarship student. He was selected for Berklee Jazz workshop directed by Terri Lyne Carrington in 2010. In 2011, Tomoaki was the recipient of a full-scholarship to the Berklee College of Music.

After graduating, Tomoaki moved to New York City and has become an active sideman and leader, performing with artists like Terence Blanchard, Dayna Stephens, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jamie Callum, Sean Jones, Darren Barrett and Louis Cole.

Since Tomoaki moved to Japan in 2020, he has been passionated putting leader projects, and has released 2 albums “Story Teller” and “Gathering”. Also Tomoaki has been organizing events named “BaBaBar” which is collaborations with musicians in all over the world like Mark Guiliana, Makaya McCraven, Marquis Hill, Ben Wendel.

Also Tomoaki is we known by performing for main character Dai Miyamoto (ts) from Japanese animation movie “Blue Giant”.