Jazz Articles about Eri Yamamoto

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 tutte originali della penna della pianista, che vi mette in mostra una vena lirica che può sorprendere chi la ricordasse nel gruppo di William ...

Eri Yamamoto: Duologue

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 21, 2008

La pianista giapponese (ma residente a New York da tredici anni) Eri Yamamoto (clicca qui per leggere l’intervista che le abbiamo fatto) è ormai una realtà che si sta imponendo all’attenzione degli appassionati, grazie anche alle sue frequenti collaborazioni con William Parker e Hamid Drake, i quali le sono accanto in alcune tracce di questo disco per il quale ha scelto di presentarsi in otto duetti con artisti e strumenti diversi. Il lavoro include tutte composizioni originali, scritte dalla pianista ...

Eri Yamamoto: Redwoods

by Lyn Horton
October 19, 2008

That pianist Eri Yamamoto brings her feminine instinct to her music crosses a threshold to all living things. It is often women who can fly the Homeric banners to pass down the stories of caring and hardship, attention and vigilance. Known for her work with groups formed by William Parker, who is one of the greatest musical storytellers of this era, and more recently for her highly acclaimed Duologue (AUM Fidelity Records, 2008), she has released another recording in a ...

Eri Yamamoto: Redwoods

by Marc Medwin
October 13, 2008

Eri Yamamoto’s pianism is quietly dignified and her approach to music making exudes introspection and beauty. Each note seems sculpted out of the silence surrounding it, making this latest trio disc a pleasure. Yamamoto can certainly play ‘out,’ but her subtle exploration of the symbiosis of mode and chord places her apart from the firebreathers.

Eri Yamamoto: Redwoods

by John Sharpe
September 3, 2008

Every time she plays, Japanese pianist Eri Yamamoto seeks to paint an aural picture. Redwoods, Yamamoto's fifth release with her long standing trio (though the first on Aum Fidelity), constitutes an inviting and engaging gallery. It follows hot on the heels of her warmly acclaimed series of duets, Duologue (2008), and her soulful contribution to William Parker's outstanding Cornmeal Dance (2007), both on the same label.

After a Damascene conversion to jazz following exposure to Tommy Flanagan during a visit ...

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 to its collective breast. Yamamoto and her cohorts seem to instinctively know the value of understatement. There isn't a surplus note here and that ...

Eri Yamamoto: Duologue

by John Sharpe
July 23, 2008

For her first disc as a leader away from her trio, Japanese pianist Eri Yamamoto has chosen to work in duo with four different partners: master bassist William Parker, veteran downtown New York saxophonist Daniel Carter and percussionists Hamid Drake and Federico Ughi. Classically trained, Yamamoto dedicated her life to jazz after a revelatory experience hearing pianist Tommy Flanagan in Central Park on a visit to her sister in 1995. This disc proves that her strong showing on William Parker's ...