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Yuka Aikawa: All Beings in the Whole Universe

by Rob Cline
July 2, 2004

Pianist Yuka Aikawa gets great support from The New York Jazz Gentlemen on All Beings in the Whole Universe, a disc that features seven originals and three covers recorded mostly in 1999 with one track harkening back to 1977. Though the disc bogs down a bit in the middle, it is a very listenable effort driven by a band that can instill palpable energy in a piece of any tempo. That ability gets the disc off to ...