After working with Tatsuya Takahashi at Tokyo Union and Orquesta de la Luz, Hideaki Nakaji is currently active in various bands, sessions, and recordings such as Kenichi Tsunoda Big Band, Tropical Jazz Orchestra, Salsus Ingosa, Shigeharu Mukai, Takeo Moriyama, Yosuke Yamashita, Naoya Matsuoka, Tsunoda ☆ Hiro, Tetsu Shiotani, Saigenji, Fumio Ito, Machiko Watanabe, and Hiroko Williams.He is also highly regarded as a composer and arranger, and has provided works to many performance groups, including tropical jazz orchestras and salsas ingosa. His original songs "Obatara" and "Mi Tierra Natal" reached No. 1 on the FM hit charts in Los Angeles and Puerto Rico, and his arrangements have been published overseas as representative works of Latin jazz. His activities include the Latin jazz band "Obatala Segundo", the duo "Kashiza" with Shihiro Ito, and other jazz combos, big bands, and brass bands.He has performed with Santana, Chicago, Tito Puente, Toots Thielemans, Bob Mintzer, Richie Cole, Paquito Divera, Arturo Sandoval, Dave Valentin, Dave Samuels, Sliding Hammers, Jimmy Bosch and many others.Winner of the United Nations Peace Prize and the Special Prize of the Japan Record Awards (while at Orquesta de la Luz).Other• Lecturer at Music School Da Capo• Arakawa City Foundation for the Promotion of Arts and Culture JAZZ Workshop Lecturer• Part-time faculty member, Nagoya College of Music• KING trombone (NONAKA BOEKI Co., Ltd.), willie's mouthpiece (willie's custom brass) endorser