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Ayumi Tanaka, Thomas Morgan, Thomas Strønen

Windflower

By Ayumi Tanaka, Thomas Morgan, Thomas Strønen

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Windflower; La Source; From Us, To You; Tree Of Stars; Weaving; The Sea Is Still; Spring; Driftwood; The Dissolving Sun.

La Source

December 11, 2026

Album: Windflower
By Ayumi Tanaka, Thomas Morgan, Thomas Strønen
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 05:55

Ayumi Tanaka, Thomas Morgan, Thomas Strønen: Windflower

by Jack Kenny
September 29, 2026

Ayumi Tanaka plays with precision and spare motifs. There are no wasted notes, and her work owes much to the balance between her country of birth and the country of residence. She has a virtuosic restraint. Rhythmic structures are often flexible, non-metrical, or thin, closely mirroring the organic movements of nature. In an interview she said, ...

Ayumi Tanaka, Thomas Morgan, Thomas Strønen: Windflower

by Frank Housh
August 17, 2026

Ayumi Tanaka's Windflower uses Nordic jazz's musical vocabulary against an ancient Japanese landscape, creating depth and beauty by the space left empty. Tanaka is a Japanese pianist and composer for whom Norwegian jazz feels “very personal," explaining how it “made the air feel alive." She was determined to figure out how. She moved to Norway ...

Ayumi Tanaka, Thomas Morgan, Thomas Strønen: Windflower

by Neil Duggan
August 6, 2026

Japanese pianist and composer Ayumi Tanaka has become a distinctive voice on the Scandinavian jazz scene since settling in Oslo. A graduate of the Norwegian Academy of Music, she has forged musical relationships with Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen and American bassist Thomas Morgan, whose intuitive rapport lies at the heart of Windflower. Following early performances at Oslo's ...