Jazz Articles about Masabumi Kikuchi

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Masabumi Kikuchi / Ben Street / Thomas Morgan / Kresten Osgood

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 6, 2015

The German poet, philosopher and literary critic Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829) had an affinity for the fragment as an art form and in his Athenaeumsfragment 206, he wrote about it, saying that: “[a] fragment, like a small work of art, has to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world and be complete in itself like a hedgehog." Like a true Romantic poet, Schlegel saw the unique potential of the fragment as something that could point ...

Album Review

Masabumi Kikuchi Trio: Sunrise

Read "Sunrise" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 25, 2012

Ad un primo ascolto di Sunrise ci si potrebbe domandare quanto in questa musica diafana, reticente e sospesa sia dovuto alla scrittura e quanto all'improvvisazione. Poi, anche leggendo le informazioni del libretto, si comprende che si tratta di improvvisazione collettiva, ma sempre indirizzata dal leader verso un pensoso e malinconico progredire, verso un ascolto reciproco quasi telepatico, sotto la soglia di un'intenzione ritmicamente motoria o melodicamente accattivante, verso un intreccio minuto in cui il non detto, i silenzi, gli accenni ...

Album Review

Masabumi Kikuchi Trio: Sunrise

Read "Sunrise" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
March 30, 2012

Pianist Masabumi Kikuchi recorded a session with the late trumpeter Miles Davis in 1978 that was never released. Had it been, the Japanese musician could perhaps have been slung by Davis' Jovian presence/influence to greater fame. As it is, Kikuchi has maintained a career as an iconoclastic artist, collaborating with some of the best jazz players. His musical tributes to Edith Piaf and Kurt Weill with the Tethered Moon trio in the 1990s--with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Paul Motian--may ...

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Album Review

Masabumi Kikuchi Trio: Sunrise

by John Kelman
March 29, 2012

With a surprising number of recordings coming out that represent some of drummer Paul Motian's final work before passing unexpectedly in the fall of 2011, few have created as deeply personal a tribute as the liner notes to Japanese pianist Masabumi Kikuchi's Sunrise. “Suddenly Paul was gone. He left without warning," Kikuchi writes, as he recounts his first meeting with Motian, the time they shared together in the Tethered Moon trio--which, with bassist Gary Peacock, released three albums between 1993 ...

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Tethered Moon: Play Kurt Weill

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 3, 2006

Continua l’operazione di ristampe del catalogo JMT da parte della Winter & Winter nella inconfondibile edizione cartonata nera con scritte bianche e rosse. Il CD in questione recupera una incisione del dicembre 1994 ad opera di Tethered Moon, trio composto da due fuoriclasse come Gary Peacock e Paul Motian e da Masabumi Kikuchi, pianista giapponese meno noto al grande pubblico, ma molto attivo con progetti che spaziano dal piano solo, all’elettronica, al funky, al jazz classico. Non nuovo ad album ...