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The Yoko Miwa Trio: Fadeless Flower

by Michael P. Gladstone
June 1, 2004

The arrival of Yoko Miwa's Fadeless Flower brings a new jazz pianist to the table. Originally from Kobe, Japan, she studied piano with the father of Makoto Ozone, who burst onto the jazz scene in the 1980s when he took over the piano chair of the Gary Burton Quartet. Although Miwa originally studied classical piano, she shifted towards jazz studies first at the Koyo Conservatory of Music and then, on a scholarship, at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. ...