Results for "Dairo Miyamoto"

Dairo Miyamoto

Born: February 10, 1957

Stravisnky, Satie, Purcell for Jazzheads + Symphonic jazz

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 3, 2022

Spurred by a number of recent albums, this week's edition of Mondo Jazz focuses on projects that blur the lines between jazz music and classical music. This segment's playlist features inspired and open interpretations of works by Igor Stravinsky, Erik Satie, Henry Purcell as well as recent jazz compositions that are rooted in the classical canon. ...

March 2022

by Pat Youngspiel
March 10, 2022

Jun MiyakeWhispered Garden Enja Records / Yellowbird Records 2022 Leaving the hazy Lost Memory Theatre (Enja, 2013, 2015, 2018) behind and moving on to the equally shrouded Whispered Garden, Paris-based trumpeter, composer and sound-architect Jun Miyake introduces us to a musical magnum-creation, his newest, that seems to encompass everything from ...

Japanese Iconoclasts - Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
October 3, 2020

From audiophile jazz labels, to definitive record stores and jazz kissaten, the outstanding jazz bars that provide a cozy place for jazz fans to congregate and share their love for jazz, Japan has traditionally been one of the most jazz-friendly countries in the world. Here is the second part of a special edition that pays tribute ...

Kyoko Katsunuma + Jun Miyake: Colomena

by Friedrich Kunzmann
January 29, 2020

From collaborating with the likes of Arto Lindsay (Ambitious Lovers), Caetano Veloso or Ichiko Aoba, through contributing to the Wim Wenders' 2011 Piana Bausch documentary soundtrack or providing the score to Joseph Ceder's 2016 feature film Norman, to even composing the music for Mercedes-Benz commercials, Japanese composer/trumpeter Jun Miyake's creativity seems inexhaustible. After compiling and producing ...

2018 Jazz Surprises

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 8, 2019

The end of the year is the time when we usually look back and take stock. To celebrate the continuous growth and expansion of the music we love, we've decided to look back at the music that, for a reason or another, has surprised us the most this year. It features mostly young musicians, artists we ...

Last Picture

By Dairo Miyamoto

Label: Cristal Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Lost in lines; Last Picture; Two before dusk; dintje; inherent paradox; COLONNADE; Eden-4; Triangle work; Gnossienne #1; Traces; Entire Picture; Ca fait long temps Dairo.

Dairo Miyamoto: Last Picture

by Friedrich Kunzmann
November 26, 2018

Now here is one very special album by an exceptional artist, who created his own unique little ethereal space in this vast musical landscape. Known for having been trumpeter Jun Miyake 's go-to mulit-instrumentalist and close friend, the late Dairo Miyamoto leaves behind an exceptional body of work for the world to discover and tops it ...

Ambrose Akinmusire, Dairo Miyamoto and Other Great New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
October 16, 2018

This week we'll go through a heap of outstanding new releases, ranging from tributes to seminal albums like Soul Station by Eli Degibri and the Far East Suite by Pierre Bertrand, to new releases by master pianists like Keith Jarrett, Brad Mehldau (in an unreleased duo with Charlie Haden!), Aaron Parks and Simone Graziano. Seasond avant-veterans ...