Kaori Kobayashi

, is a Japanese jazz saxophonist, pianist and flautist. She grew up in Tokyo.

Biography 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.

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.

Albums Solar, Kaori's Collection (2005) Fine (2006) Glow (2007) Shiny (2008) The Golden Best (2009) Luv Sax (2009) Precious (2011) Seventh (2012) Urban Stream (2013) Spirit (2014) STORY: 10th Anniversary (2015) Melody (2016) Be myself! (2018) NOW and FOREVER (2021) INTERSECTION (2024)