Jazz Articles about Masaki Kai

About Masaki Kai

Album Review

If Johannes Brahms and Karlheinz Stockhausen had shared the same creative period and Miles Davis had been inspired by their collaboration, one might end up with something close to what Suomi Morishita offers in his calm elaborations on Ein.. But that still wouldn't reveal the whole picture. On his debut album the Japanese guitarist paints balanced sketches of dark romanticism that elegantly weave improvisatory notions amidst thoroughly through-composed scores in a dim-lit chamber music setting. Throughout the program, the core ...

Album Review

Shinya Fukumori: Another Story

Read "Another Story" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann

by Friedrich Kunzmann
February 6, 2021

When joining the ranks of ECM as a drummer, you can be sure to be subject of comparisons to the many drum legends who have extensive recording histories with the label— late veterans Paul Motian or Jon Christensen. Much like the two multiple-eras-defining pioneers, Japanese drummer Shinya Fukumori's approach to the role of his instrument, as presented on his debut for the label, For 2 Akis (2018), builds on a cymbal-heavy language that sees him interacting with his sidemen on ...