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Eri Yamamoto Trio: A Woman With A Purple Wig

by Jerome Wilson
January 14, 2023

Pianist Eri Yamamoto was born and raised in Japan. but she has been a resident of New York City for over twenty years. She was there in March 2020 when COVID-19 shut down the world and then-President Trump began to call the disease a “Chinese flu." One day, while waiting to start an outdoor concert, she ...

Eri Yamamoto

Since moving to the United States in 1995, Eri Yamamoto has established herself as one of jazz's most original and compelling pianists and composers. Jazz legend Herbie Hancock has said, “My hat’s off to her... already she’s found her own voice.”

During the past twenty-seven years, Eri has been sharing her uniquely lyrical and evocative music with listeners in New York City, throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan, Africa, Jamaica, and Australia; with appearances in concerts, clubs, and major festivals.

A Woman With A Purple Wig is Eri’s new release, and her fourteenth as a leader. This powerful music came out of her experiences as an Asian woman living in New York City during the pandemic. She felt compelled to write lyrics and sing for the first time. The New Yorker writes: “Purposeful songs….address racial and sexual discrimination, yet also step back to celebrate simple joys. Colors are Beautiful is as affirming as the title track is critical.” Filmmaker Aleksandra Szczepanowska was moved to create music videos of both songs. "A Woman With a Purple Wig," recently won the prize for best music video at the prestigious Big Apple Film Festival, Spring 2023.

Eri Yamamoto Trio: Life

by Vincenzo Roggero
April 6, 2017

Le note biografiche ci raccontano che Eri Yamamoto a tre anni suonava musica classica al pianoforte, a otto anni componeva brani, successivamente arricchiva il proprio curriculum con lo studio della viola, della voce e della composizione. Un vero e proprio enfant prodige che durante il primo viaggio negli Stati Uniti assiste casualmente ad una esibizione di ...

Eri Yamamoto Trio: Life

by Jakob Baekgaard
September 16, 2016

Tourist guides to jazz in New York often recommend the same venues like The Village Vanguard, Birdland and Blue Note, but there is a place known by true connoisseurs that should be the point of destination for everyone wanting to experience a real working trio with one of the most interesting pianists in contemporary jazz.

Eri Yamamoto Trio: The Next Page

by John Sharpe
April 5, 2012

It is arguable whether a bar is the right venue for jazz in the 21st century. On any given night most of the punters are there for a chat with friends over drinks, maybe to pick someone up, and just perhaps to appreciate the music. For the last decade, Japanese pianist Eri Yamamoto and her trio ...

Eri Yamamoto Trio: In Each Day, Something Good

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 4, 2010

Sesto disco per il trio di Eri Yamamoto, terzo con l'attuale formazione, che vede David Ambrosio al contrabbasso e Ikuo Takeuchi alla batteria. La poetica è sostanzialmente quella messa in luce nel precedente Redwoods: brani originali, dettaglio nell'interpretazione, varietà delle atmosfere a cifra essenzialmente blues, forte tensione ritmica. In più, qui c'è la documentazione della sonorizzazione ...

Eri Yamamoto Trio: In Each Day, Something Good

by Lyn Horton
January 17, 2010

Half of the ten tracks on Eri Yamamoto's In Each Day, Something Good were composed to accompany a 1932 silent film by historic director Yasujiro Ozu, called I Was Born, But... Pianist Yamamoto describes the film, in the liner notes of this sixth album with her trio, as “a film about the unchanging human situation...serious and ...

Eri Yamamoto Trio: Redwoods

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 21, 2008

Quinto disco a nome della pianista giapponese Eri Yamamoto (clicca qui per leggere l’intervista che le abbiamo fatto), Redwoods è il secondo documento della formazione che la vede attiva ormai da più di un decennio, il trio con il contrabbassista David Ambrosio e il batterista Ikuo Takeuchi, dopo Cobalt Blue (Thirsty Ear Recordings). Le composizioni sono ...

Eri Yamamoto Trio: Redwoods

by Nic Jones
September 2, 2008

If Yamamoto feels she has to make up for lost time working as an improvising pianist she's going the right way about it. This is her second Aum Fidelity release in 2008 and here her working trio gets the chance to set out its stall. The group grasps the opportunity with both hands and clutches it ...

Eri Yamamoto Trio: Colors

by Terrell Kent Holmes
January 31, 2005

Colors , the newest offering by pianist and Arthur's Tavern regular Eri Yamamoto, is comprised primarily of striking originals, entitled with Chaplinesque brevity and marked by an eloquent use of understatement, giving Yamamoto, drummer Ikuo Takeuchi, and bassist Ben Street generous space in which they can all work effectively. The funky “Orange Juice" starts things off, ...