Jazz Articles about Eri Yamamoto

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 have held down a regular weekend gig at Arthur's Tavern in NYC's Greenwich Village. Anyone who has made their way along the narrow bar ...

Eri Yamamoto - Whit Dickey - Daniel Carter: Emergence

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 28, 2011

Disco di musica interamente improvvisata, Emergence è opera di tre artisti dalle ricche frequentazioni del free jazz contemporaneo: oltre ad avere ognuno una affermata carriera di leader, Eri Yamamoto è stata membro del quintetto di William Parker, Whit Dickey dei quartetti di David S. Ware e di Matthew Shipp, Daniel Carter ha anch'egli collaborato sia con Parker, sia con Shipp, oltre che con la stessa Yamamoto (clicca qui qui per leggere la recensione del CD Duologue). Le otto tracce si ...

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 del classico del cinema giapponese Io sono nato ma..., di Yasujiro Ozu, del 1932. Si tratta per la precisione di Every Day, A Little ...

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 sometimes heartbreaking...[but also having] lightness and humor."

Working with Yamamoto are bassist David Ambrosio and drummer Ikuo Takeuchi. A studio recording made in Brooklyn ...

The Multiple Musical Personalities of Eri Yamamoto

by Tom Greenland
January 16, 2010

Eri Yamamoto In Each Day, Something Good AUM Fidelity 2010 Eri Yamamoto, Whit Dickey, Daniel Carter Emergence Not Two 2009

Known locally for her decade-long residency at Arthur's Tavern in the West Village, Osaka-born, Kyoto-bred and New York-seasoned pianist Eri Yamamoto has become increasingly visible on the Eastside avant jazz scene. ...

Eri Yamamoto: In Each Day, Something Good

by John Sharpe
January 13, 2010

For her third outing under the Aum Fidelity banner, Japanese pianist Eri Yamamoto is back in the company of her long time trio featuring bassist Dave Ambrosio and drummer Ikuo Takeuchi. This is their sixth release together; not bad going for someone who had never played jazz before her 1995 visit to New York City, when first inspired to switch from classical upon hearing the great Tommy Flanagan doing his stuff. Though Yamamoto has found a niche at the free ...

Whit Dickey / Daniel Carter / Eri Yamamoto: Emergence

by John Sharpe
October 16, 2009

When the collective of drummer Whit Dickey, pianist Eri Yamamoto, and horn player Daniel Carter held sway at the Vision Festival in June 2009 they built tension to unbearable levels that built up to a cathartic resolution. On their first disc together, recorded in the studio four months prior to their Festival triumph, they program eight group improvisations in a much more relaxed vein, sometimes resolving sometimes not, but always coherent.

Dickey is still best known for his four-year tenure ...