| Kaori Kobayashi | |
| Background: | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| Birth Date: | 1981 10, mf=yes |
| Origin: | Japan |
| Instrument: | Alto saxophone, Flute |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Occupation: | Composer, Jazz musician |
| Years Active: | 2002 - present |
| Label: | Victor Entertainment |
| Website: | http://kaorikobayashi.com/ |
, is a Japanese jazz saxophonist and flautist. She grew up in Tokyo.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3]