Born and raised in Kyoto, Japan, Shu Odamura is a guitarist and composer now based in New York City after graduating from Berklee College of Music. His trio recording Cloud Illusions was released on What’s New Records. In 2016 he co-founded another group, Jazz Triangle 65-77, which has toured in Japan and Thailand, and performed at the Blue Note New York and Flushing Town Hall. Besides his Jazz gigs, Shu has appeared in Off-Broadway musicals and theater projects in the New York Area, including the projects with Watoku Ueno’s shadow puppetry group, where Shu has been the music director for over a decade. As a composer and arranger, he has written music for independent films, wind bands, wind ensembles and Jazz big bands.