Lambda Shift a.k.a. Santa Ishiwaki Quartet at Live Spot RAG

Before you go

Lambda Shift, the quartet led by tenor saxophonist Santa Ishiwaki, puts contemporary jazz and the heat of a rock band on the same stage.

The four are Ishiwaki on tenor sax, Yusaku Sato on piano, Ryo Hisamatsu on bass, and Takuto Nagao on drums. The group won the top prize at the Sapporo City Jazz 2025 Park Jazz Live Contest, and the venue describes its sound as contemporary jazz at the core, fused with each member's roots and a rock band's energy.

The performance turns on the ensemble itself: the venue notes that the set is not a run of solos, but a quartet that shifts together as one.

• The show is also streamed live, with the archive available until 23:59 on November 27