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Saco Yasuma

Ullman/Swell Quartet, The Attic Frank Carlberg & Josh Sinton

by Maurice Hogue
December 12, 2022

Improvisers abound in this episode. Portugal's Rodrigo Amado & The Attic, Bernardo Tinoco & Tom Maciel, Joao Lencastre's quartet, and Pedro Alves Sousa and friends lead the way, while the Chilean band Nichunimu makes its debut with a startling use of electronics. Baritone saxophonist Josh Sinton's back with a new release by his Predicate Quartet, more ...

Another Rain

By Saco Yasuma

Label: Leaf Note Productions
Released: 2007
Track listing: Invisible Matters; Liquid Entity; Fat Orange Moon; The Fifth Season; Calm Water; Labyrinth; Straight Upwards; A Wind Blew Into My Hands; Another Rain.

Saco Yasuma: Another Rain

by Jerry D'Souza
July 13, 2007

Saco Yasuma discovered jazz in New York when she moved there from Tokyo in 1989. While she loved the freedom that the music offered, she also immersed herself in Afro-pop, salsa and Brazilian music. It was a defining moment when she discovered that free jazz was the ultimate form of improvisation. Yasuma shows strong evidence of ...

Saco Yasuma: Another Rain

by Elliott Simon
July 9, 2007

When a classically trained musician arrives in NYC from Japan and falls in love with jazz it can often times result in impressive technique and a sterile sound. Saxophonist Saco Yasuma's Another Rain is her debut as a leader and flies in the face of that stereotype in a big way. Yasuma, trained on piano, switched ...