Jazz Articles about Toru Dodo

About Toru Dodo

Album Review

Pianist and composer Toru Dodo was born in Tokyo in 1972 and has been living in New York for the past eleven years. Dodo3 is, as you'd suspect, his third release on the Japanese label Jazz City. This album was originally released in Japan in 2006 and was made available in the U.S. in 2007. As in the past, he records in a piano trio format, although I've previously heard him as the pianist for drummer Peter Zimmer's band.

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Toru Dodo: Dodo 3

Read "Dodo 3" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
February 4, 2007

Japanese pianist Toru Dodo has lived in New York for over ten years. A player with a significant range and style, he's been making a splash on gigs and sessions, most recently with the Pete Zimmer Quintet (Judgment, Tippin' Records, 2006). But within his own group (a trio with bassist Joseph Lepore and drummer Rodney Green) on DoDo 3, he truly shines. The way the pianist interprets improvisation and melody is enjoyable. “Boneless and Skinless dances as ...

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Toru Dodo: Dodo 3

Read "Dodo 3" reviewed by Brian P. Lonergan

by Brian P. Lonergan
July 18, 2006

Toru Dodo's name may not be at the top of people's lists of riveting jazz pianists--yet--but with recordings like Dodo3, such recognition could come soon enough. The album is full of catchy compositions that showcase Dodo's individual, unique and modern voice; his acrobatic trio mates--Joseph Lepore on bass and Rodney Green on drums--fly around complicated structures and rhythms with energy and precision. The standout composition “NYUCS (New York Underground Car Service), for example, could be mistaken in ...