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New Music from Gil, Vandermark, and Yamamoto
by Bob Osborne
This show brings together an eclectic mix of releases from 2019.The featured album is from exciting Spanish guitarist Arnua Gil whose debut bridges the divide between rock and jazz with ease.There is also music from Ken Vandermark's first large ensemble recording in more than four years. The band is called Entr'acte and is a veritable “who's who" of the most interesting and important musicians currently working in the field of experimental music.Eri Yamamoto's new ...
Continue ReadingEri Yamamoto Trio & Choral Chameleon: Goshu Ondo Suite
by Glenn Astarita
Modern jazz combined with choral vocals has not been in vogue during the genre's varied history. Some notable recordings such as drummer Max Roach's It's Time (Impulse, 1962) and trumpeter Donald Byrd's melding of jazz with spiritual vocals on A New Perspective (Blue Note, 1964) were prolific outings of this ilk. And on Byrd's album, the piece titled “Cristo Redentor" received a fair amount of jazz radio play for decades. But New York-based pianist Eri Yamamoto's new venture, featuring a ...
Continue ReadingJerome Wilson's Best Releases of 2019
by Jerome Wilson
The human voice was the first musical instrument and many of my favorite releases of the past year show how powerful the voice can be, whether the singer is in a choir, part of an instrumental ensemble or leading the band. Of course there were also many purely instrumental releases that were outstanding as well. Fire! Orchestra Arrival Rune Grammofon This Scandanavian ensemble is pared down from 28 to 14 members here, but ...
Continue ReadingBig in Japan, Part 2: Osaka & the Eri Yamamoto Connection
by Karl Ackermann
Part 1 | Part 2 In Part 1 of Big in Japan we looked at the early history of jazz music in that country--a history that dates back to the same time frame as the Jazz Age in the United States. The influence of American dance music was indisputable but it came to Japan through second-hand means. Sheet music and early recordings were enhanced by live performances--not from American musicians--but from Filipinos who learned from the occupying forces ...
Continue ReadingEri Yamamoto: The Poet’s Touch
by Jakob Baekgaard
One of the many places to go if you want to listen to jazz in New York is Arthur's Tavern. The special thing about that place is not that it is a jazz bar, but the fact that the same piano trio has played there for nearly 20 years. The name of the trio is Eri Yamamoto Trio and together with bassist David Ambrosio and drummer Ikuo Takeuchi, Yamamoto has been refining the lyrical language of the piano trio.
Continue ReadingEri Yamamoto Trio: Life
by Vincenzo Roggero
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 Tommy Flanagan e ne rimane folgorata. Da quel momento la musica jazz prende il sopravvento nei suoi interessi musicali e nel corso degli ultimi ...
Continue ReadingEri Yamamoto Trio: Life
by Jakob Baekgaard
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. The place is called Arthur's Tavern and for a long time, Japanese-born pianist Eri Yamamoto has played there, and developed her musical ...
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