OSF Leadership

Since 2006, One Soul Fellowship, Inc. (OSF, 501 C 3 Non-Profit Organization) has been redefining jazz as an innovative and life-changing art form through multi-angled perspectives. OSF is led by two prominent jazz musicians based in New York City, bassist Ray Soul (left) and pianist Art Hirahara (right). These two professional jazz musicians first met at Fat Cat in New York City in 2007, while Art was having a gig with his fellow musicians. Ray had been looking for a pianist, who acknowledges the unique concept of bebop with a lyricism approach, to form OSF and finally encountered Art. Since then, Ray and Art have been playing together for more than a decade, recording albums and successfully finishing local and international tours. OSF has been gradually evolved its morphologies from a thriving music performance team to a creative entity where jazz becomes a critical substance to glue other creative endeavors.

In 2007, as a music music group, OSF released its debut album A New Creation and successfully toured through Asian countries. Due to OSF’s unique style of combining Jazz with other artistic forms various groups of people can enjoy OSF's exciting performance. In 2009, OSF finished its 2nd studio album Interactive featuring today’s most prominent jazz pianist Jason Moran (Blue Note), Grammy Award winning vocalist Marta Gomez, and Grammy Award winning multi-instrumentalist Scott Robinson (Maria Schneider Orchestra). OSF suggests an ideal model of futuristic jazz group that is heavily based on New York’s authentic and rough instrumental sound. Interaction between the performers and the audience is the key aspect of OSF’s musical style. Jazz interacts and encompasses all aspects of life such as ethnic, cultural background, narratives of endless spectrum, its tears and sorrow, joy and happiness, including classic and hip-hop.

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Interactive (Another Season - US Title)

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OSF is a Pioneer of Technology Based Interactive Media Art...

Interactive Jazz was created by Ray Soul to facilitate the viewers’ understanding of the artist’s works through various perspectives in art and jazz. This hopefully is yet another method of co-opting music with the visual art as the fusion of musical and visual elements engender a new and radical art form. It is revolutionary in a sense that it allows the viewers to experience and interact with the message of art in more diverse ways. Interactive technology was introduced as part of the exhibition to ease the audience to naturally be guided into the process of perceiving the music and fine art, simultaneously. The technological element of interactive technology was solely utilized to enhance the understanding of the message of art. 

OSF is agonizing over some of today's most difficult questions among artists such as:

"How to live well as an artist" 

Today, art schools have successfully taught young artists how to express their inspirations through various art forms, but failed to guide them in how to live as an artist. This is a much more important concept than learning the techniques of art. OSF Cultural Institute delivers artistic seminars to art students struggling with their future and often suggests the right course of action in terms of artistic ambition.

OSF supports the community...

The Bumblebee is a community volunteer group operated by OSF. Its main goal is to build and share cultural relationship between young artists and local communities. The current Bumblebee members consist of arts students who happen to love jazz music seeking to display their appreciation towards the Afro-American community that created this wonderful art form called ‘JAZZ.' Members of The Bumblebee are carefully screened through a rigorous process and are committed to serving the people who need emotional relief in the US and around the world, whether through musical outlet or in the form of community service.