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Masabumi Kikuchi Trio: Sunrise
by Dan McClenaghan
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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by John Kelman
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 ...
Continue ReadingTethered Moon: Play Kurt Weill
by AAJ Italy Staff
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 ...
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