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Kyoko Katsunuma + Jun Miyake: Colomena

Read "Colomena" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann

by Friedrich Kunzmann
January 29, 2020

From collaborating with the likes of Arto Lindsay (Ambitious Lovers), Caetano Veloso or Ichiko Aoba, through contributing to the Wim Wenders' 2011 Piana Bausch documentary soundtrack or providing the score to Joseph Ceder's 2016 feature film Norman, to even composing the music for Mercedes-Benz commercials, Japanese composer/trumpeter Jun Miyake's creativity seems inexhaustible. After compiling and producing the very intimate 2018 homage Last Picture (Cristal Records) to his late friend and collaborator Dairo Miyamoto, the Paris-based sound designer is back with ...

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Tyrone Washington: Do Right

Read "Do Right" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
December 8, 2006

The same way choice ingredients don't always guarantee a tasty stew, talented musicians and good intentions do not always make a great recording. Such is the case with Tyrone Washington's long-lost record Do Right. Tyrone Washington is known as a tenor saxophonist whose debut on wax was on Horace Silver's 1966 Blue Note recording The Jody Grind and who later recorded a single Blue Note album of his own, the excellent Natural Essence (1968). Recently, however, two other albums of ...