Shinobu Ito is a Japan-born jazz / fusion guitarist lives in New York City since 1977.For many years, he has lived in New York, putting his body and soul into the jazz scene, representing the essence of mainstream jazz, but for someone who has been watching him for the past ten years,he is now represents quite a change in direction. He sought out to broaden his sense of expression on the jazz guitar style without sticking strictly to jazz. From straight-ahead jazz to fusion & beyond,the new musical aspects he is challenging now are all quite interesting, and the result is certainly quite significant in the world of improvisational guitar music.