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News: Performance / Tour

Ayako Shirasaki Live on Tour in Germany & Switzerland, November 2011

Ayako Shirasaki Live on Tour in Germany & Switzerland, November 2011

Experience Ayako Shirasaki, a Japanese jazz pianist now living in New York, live on tour November 17 -27, 2011 in Germany and Switzerland. A video for the tour announcement has been created at YouTube\ The latest CD of Ayako Shirasaki, “Falling Leaves—Live in Hamburg," made it into the “Best of 2010" lists by journalists of the ...

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News: Event

Jazz and classical Concert for Japan at the German Consulate General (NYC) June 9, 2011 @ 6pm

Jazz and classical Concert for Japan at the German Consulate General (NYC) June 9, 2011 @ 6pm

The Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Consulate General of Japan invite you to a concert for the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Free admission. If you would like to make a donation, you can do so at the door or online. The German Consulate General suggests making a contribution ...

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Article: Album Review

Ayako Shirasaki: Falling Leaves - Live In Hamburg

Read "Falling Leaves - Live In Hamburg" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Energy is one of the most important and elusive elements in jazz. Some people foolishly equate energy with speed or skill, but the two aren't necessarily linked. Bill Evans didn't sprint around the keyboard, but his music created a cocoon of energy that enveloped an audience in a way that few pianists could ever emulate. Energy ...

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News: Contest

Jazz Pianist Ayako Shirasaki launches new website with a CD giveaway

Jazz Pianist Ayako Shirasaki launches new website with a CD giveaway

Frequent finalist in major U.S. jazz piano competitions and internationally performing jazz pianist Ayako Shirasaki has launched her new website, ayakoshirasaki.com. The website features everything Ayako related. Biography, news, schedule, discography, video and media. Fans of her music can now listen to tracks in the site-wide music player as well as checking the latest news about ...

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Falling Leaves

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Label: Jan Matthies Records
Released: 2011
Duration: 03:49

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News: Recording

Ayako Shirasaki: Falling Leaves

Ayako Shirasaki: Falling Leaves

On the cover of her new album, pianist Ayako Shirasaki looks as demure and as delicate as a cherry blossom. But looks can be deceiving, especially in jazz. On Falling Leaves: Live in Hamburg, Ayako plays solo piano with a powerful attack and enormous physical strength that leaves you enchanted and breathless. As for the demure ...

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News: Recording

Win The New Ayako Shirasaki CD Set For Release September 7th

Win The New Ayako Shirasaki CD Set For Release September 7th

Falling Leaves—Live in Hamburg, the stunning new solo jazz piano album from frequent finalist in major U.S. jazz piano competitions Ayako Shirasaki, will be released by Jan Matthies Records on September 7, 2010. Shirasaki has been sharing her dramatic improvisational approach with listeners worldwide for the past 10 years, Falling Leaves—Live in Hamburg is her 4th ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Pianist Ayako Shirasaki: Japan Tour Dates 2010

Jazz Pianist Ayako Shirasaki: Japan Tour Dates 2010

New York based Ayako Shirasaki is not moving back to Japan full time as hoped for the fans by the Japan Times, but playing a tour giving the fans “improvisation at the highest level" as lately being put by a German Jazz Magazine. Although playing most gigs as Piano Trio she'll also perform some solo piano ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Pianist Ayako Shirasaki Performs at 1st International Jazz Solo Piano Festival

Pianist Ayako Shirasaki Performs at 1st International Jazz Solo Piano Festival

The German Jazz Magazine JAZZTHETIK covered New York based Jazz Pianist Ayako Shirasaki's solo and trio performance at the 1st International Jazz Solo Piano Festival 2009 in Hamburg. From page 66 in their December 2009 issue: By Nabil Atassi: “Improvisation, interpretation or composition? This question arises from the possibility of being able to experience the jazz ...

Album

Gone With The Piggies

Label: Consolidated Artists Productions
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1, Gone With The Wind (Allie Wrubel) 2. I Know, Y’Know (Rich Willey) 3. My Melancholy Baby (Burnett/Norton/Bregman) 4. Laird Baird (Charlie Parker) 5. Little Treasures (Rich Willey) 6. Sonny Boy (Henderson/DeSylva/Brown) 7. Squeetz (Rich Willey) 8. Eclypso (Tommy Flanagan) 9. Eyes All For You (Rich Willey) 10. Elora (J.J. Johnson) 11. Piggies (George Harrison)


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