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Cobalt Blue

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2006
Track listing: Melodica Chops; Takeda No Komoriuta; Cobalt Blue; Hot Coffee; I Love You; Irving Place; A Little Nap; They Can't Take That Away From Me; The Quiet of the Night.

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Eri Yamamoto: Cobalt Blue

Read "Cobalt Blue" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes


Eri Yamamoto's two previous releases, Three Feel (Jane Street, 2003) and Colors (Jane Street, 2004), displayed her prowess as a pianist, composer and arranger. Her contribution to Thirsty Ear's Blue Series, Cobalt Blue, marks a significant change in her musical landscape. She's managed to step up her game further by adding new dimensions to her already ...

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Eri Yamamoto: Cobalt Blue

Read "Cobalt Blue" reviewed by James Taylor


Cobalt Blue is not your average piano trio record, because Eri Yamamoto is not your average pianist. Nonetheless, throughout the record, we are greeted with familiar phrases in voices that remind us of old friends--Keith Jarrett with DeJohnette on standards, even a little Evans or Gershwin. Lots of McCoy Tyner. Yamamoto's music is equal parts playfully ...

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Eri Yamamoto: Cobalt Blue

Read "Cobalt Blue" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


When the Bad Plus covered Nirvana's “Smells Like Teen Spirit" a few years back, it sounded (a little) like a long-lost track from John Coltrane's rhythm section; thus did the Love Supreme virus erupt in the least likely of contexts. Pianist Eri Yamamoto's Cobalt Blue, a trio performance with bassist David Ambrosio and ...

Album

Cobalt Blue

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Out of My Hands; 2. Rhythm; 3. Princess Dreams; 4. All Night Long; 5. Blue Me Down; 6. Absolute Zero; 7. Drama Queen; 8. No Money Down; 9. Reunion Song; 10. Small Wonder; 11. Tread Lightly.

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William Woods: Cobalt Blue

Read "Cobalt Blue" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Pianist and composer William Woods is a radiological oncologist by vocation and talented jazz musician by avocation. Cobalt contains eleven smooth jazz tunes composed by him. The album title has a subtle physician's reference, since it refers to a radioactive substance employed in cancer treatment. Regis Branson, who is associated with Alex Bugnon, Howard Johnson, Najee, ...


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