AAPI Jazz Collective:

The AAPI Jazz Collective is an all-star ensemble featuring AAPI jazz artists throughout the tri-state area. Formed in 2019 by Taiwanese-American trombonist, Peter Lin, this ensemble strives to promote empathy through passionate musical expression as well as highlighting the band’s cultural roots. The AAPI Jazz Collective performs jazz-infused arrangements of classic and traditional Asian songs, as well as exciting originals they appropriately label as “The New Asian Songbook”. Their debut album, titled Identity and released on Origin Records, is not only a proper representation of their long relationship together, but also a guiding light for many other young AAPI artists looking for inspiration. The AAPI Jazz Collective has performed at the AAPI Jazz Fest, the MET Museum Lunar New Year Celebration, the New York Asian Film Festival, as well as many other venues and festivals.

Performers

Mỹ Tâm Huynh – vocals

Peter Lin – trombone

Stephanie Tateiwa – alto sax

Mike Bond – keys

Masaaki Saito – bass

Wen-Ting Wu – drums

Artist Details

Peter Lin:

Peter Lin is a Taiwanese-American trombonist, producer, and educator in the tri-state area. A graduate from both William Paterson University (undergrad) and Rutgers University (graduate), Peter has performed with jazz luminaries including Slide Hampton, Ron Carter, Winard Harper, Charli Persip, JD Allen, Robin Eubanks, Steve Davis, and Steve Turre. He has also been included in notable ensembles such as the Roy Hargrove Big Band, Jimmy Heath Big Band, and Frank Lacy’s Tromboniverse. With three albums under his name, including his most recent release titled “Identity” on Origin Records, he continues to perform prolifically worldwide as both a leader and sideman. In addition to his musical endeavors, he is also the founder of Yardbird Entertainment, a music production company providing audio, video, and livestream services, as well as the producer of AAPI Jazz Fest, which is currently in its fourth year. He currently teaches at Jazz House Kids and New Jersey Youth Symphony as a trombone instructor and ensemble coach.

Stephanie Tateiwa:

Stephanie Tateiwa is a New York-based saxophonist, woodwind doubler, educator, and a composer. She has toured all over the United States and Canada as a member of renowned groups such as the World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra, the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, and Sunny Jain’s RED BARAAT. She is an active player in the Off Broadway/Broadway scene. She can be seen performing in productions such as the Broadway Proudction of Beaches at the Majestic Theater , Off Broadway Production of A Christmas Carol at the Perelman Performing Arts Center, and more.

Passionate about teaching, she serves on faculty at the prestigious Jazz at Lincoln Center Academy, and is a Graduate Adjunct Instructor of Woodwinds at NYU.

She has her Bachelors of Music degrees in Jazz Saxophone and in Music Education from the Eastman School of Music, and she is currently pursuing her Masters Degree in Multiple Woodwinds at NYU.

Stephanie has been the recipient of awards including the Jazz Education Network, Sisters in Jazz Competition, Essentially Ellington Best Saxophone Award, Concerto Competition Winner at the New England Music Camp, and Grand Prix Winner of Concert Festival on the classical piano.

Mỹ Tâm Huynh:

Mỹ Tâm Huynh (pronounced: mee thum hwin), aka “mitamu,” is an interdisciplinary multi-award winning artist who draws inspiration from all forms of storytelling. The heart of her music is rooted in her Vietnamese American culture and Black American creative music. Many questions surrounding identity, culture, and values collide in her practice. These questions often become the music Huynh wants to create.

Themes she has previously explored include fragmentation and identity, multiculturalism, and most recently, futurism. Huynh takes pride in her songwriting and actively performs under “mitamu.” Her first studio album, sunflower in the east, released on October 30th, 2021. It is influenced by everything from jazz, new wave, and poetry. The record is a tribute to the trials and triumphs of growing up, learning to be vulnerable, and maintaining a creative existence in a commodified world. With poignant lyrics and creative production, it evokes nostalgia for the romance of youth within a more sophisticated future. This bittersweet vista is Huynhʼs own life, each song representing a significant moment and flowing with improvisation and poetry. In 2022, Huynh won 1st place at the Beta Hi-Fi Emerging Artist Festival Competition. She was selected out of 300 artists and performed among nine other finalists.

Huynh is a self-described futurist and strives to create musical compositions that explore collective storytelling through improvisation and the relationship between visual art, poetry, music, and technology. She is planning to showcase her vision in her sophomore album, projected to release in 2025.

Huynh is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music (MM’22) and the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University (BM’18). Upon graduating, she accepted a position at the Manhattan School of Music as faculty for the Jazz Arts program. In 2025, Huynh was named the 2025 Van Lier Artist of Exceptional Merit by Asian American Arts Alliance. In 2023, Huynh was a winner of ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award, ASCAP Phoebe Jacobs recipient, resident composer and teaching artist for Wildflower Composers and Asian Arts Initiative. In 2023 and 2024, she was named a semi-finalist of the Next Jazz Legacy program. Huynh is an alum of several renowned programs such as the Banff International Workshop in Jazz & Creative Music and Diamond Research Scholars Program. Through these opportunities, she strives to further her vision of futurism and decolonization through art.

Mike Bond:

Mike Bond is a professional music director/ pianist working in the NYC area. He has performed/recorded with some of the most notable jazz artists in the world such as Jerry Weldon, Conrad Herwig, Curtis Lundy, Josh Evans, Bruce Williams, Byron Landham, Tim Ries, the Captain Black Big Band , and performed at some of the top clubs on the scene including Smalls, Mezzrow, Birdland Theater, Jazz Gallery, Smoke Jazz Club, NJPAC, Two River Theater, Exit Zero Jazz Festival, NYC winter jazz fest, Judson’s, and the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center,

Credits include MD’ing for Tony award winning tap dancer Savion Glover (Tap Dance Kid), (CiTy Kid) , Broadway lead, Andrew Polec, and Broadway choreographer and performer T. Oliver Reid (Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, Into the Woods). He was featured on “Burn Ballads” as part of a series for Elle Magazine accompanying celebrity artists Babyface, and Offset.

Bond is a member of the Recording Academy as well as an adjunct faculty member at Rider U.

Masaaki Saito

Masaaki Saito is an upcoming upright/electric bassist situated in New Jersey. He started his musical journey at the age of 13 when picking up the guitar. He went to Montclair State University where he studied with Dave Stryker. That was when he also picked up the upright bass, initially out of curiosity, but as more opportunities came up it became his primary instrument. While still at Montclair State University, he studied bass with Bill Moring. Since graduating in 2017, he has worked as a freelance musician playing in a variety of settings ranging from clubs, restaurants and weddings.

Wen-Ting Wu:

Drummer, composer, and educator Wen-Ting Wu is a versatile artist from Taiwan based in New York City. As an artist, she strives to create a space of freedom, honesty, empathy and expression using music as a vessel, a spiritual ritual, to generate positive energy and bring people together. Derived from deep self reflections and observations from the current world we live in, “Write what you wish for” -said Wayne Shorter, is always a guidance she follows when she creates.

Her past release includes the 2021 trio project “Pause & Effect” released on ESP-Disk. Following this, she received the Silver Lining New Artist Award in 2022, leading to the commission of “As a Women…,” an evocative 19-minute Jazz Suite she wrote featuring Mimi Jones and Neta Raanan. Her commitment to creative exchange also led to her being selected as a member of the M3 (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians) program cohort 8 in 2025, resulting a new duo commission project.

Besides being a regular member in Grammy-winning artist Frank Lacy’s Septet and Classical Jazz Ensemble, and AAPI Jazz Collective, she has performed with Jazz greats such as Ed Cherry, Charenee Wade, Mimi Jones, Bertha Hope, Pat Bianchi, and Lonnie Plaxico to name a few. She has played in prestigious venues such as Jazz at Lincoln Center, Smoke Jazz Club, Smalls Jazz club, The Met Museum, National Sawdust, Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater and more. She has also toured internationally at major music festivals with Indie-pop band Sunset Rollercoaster. Her collaborations with other artists span across genres, ranging from Jazz, Avant-garde, Funk, Contemporary music, to singer/songwriters, and experimental theater productions. Wen-Ting is endorsed by Canopus Drums.

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