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Izumi Kimura

Pianist Izumi Kimura explores between abstract and concrete, improvising and composing. She has performed extensively throughout Ireland and abroad since moving from Japan in 1995, and worked with some of the leading performers and ensembles from both disciplines of classical, jazz and improvised music, including RTE Symphony Orchestra, RTE Concert Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Michael d’Arcy, Mia Cooper, Ken Edge, Benjamin Dwyer, Gerald Barry, John Buckley, Kevin O’Connell, Ian Wilson, Fergus Johnston from the world of classical music, and with jazz and improvising musicians including Barry Guy, Gerry Hemingway, Tommy Halferty, Ronan Guilfoyle, Michael Buckley, Joe O’Callaghan, Oki Itaru, Dominique Pifarély, Benoît Delbecq, Stéphane Payen, Marco Colonna, Sarah Buechi, Lina Andonovska, Mathew Jacobson, Nick Roth, Colm O’Hara, Cora Venus Lunny. She has appeared in the festivals including RTE Living Music Festival, Boyle Arts Festival, Dublin Dance Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, Bray Jazz Festival, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ghent Street Festival of New Music, Music 21’s ‘Brazil Now’, ‘Artes Da Irlanda’ in Sao Paolo, Creative Connexions in Sitges, Ad Libitum Festival in Warsaw, and many more.
Glacial Voyage

Label: Between the Lines
Released: 2025
Track listing: Breakwater; Inishkea Islands; High Tide; Belmullet; Whale Tea Party; Downpatrick Head; Light Frames; Moon
Pull; Blacksod Lighthouse; Horizon's Invitation.
Butterfly Effect

By Izumi Kimura
Label: Codama Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Hawthorn - Sceach gheal; Spindle - Feoras; Bell Heather - Fraoch Cloigíneach; Holly - Cuileann; Forget-me-not
- Lus míonla goirt; Rosebay Willowherb - Lus na tine; Sea Thrift - Rabhán; Snowdrop - Plúirín sneachta;
Blackthorn - Draighean; Bog Cotton - Ceannbhán; Herb-robert - Ruithéal rí; Selfheal - Duán ceannchosach;
Bramble - Dris; Rain Falling on Sessile Oak - Dair ghaelach; Foxglove - Lus mór.
Barry Guy, Jaleel Shaw, Linda May Han Oh & Zoh Amba

by Maurice Hogue
English avant-garde bassist Barry Guy is considered one of the finest in any musical genre and his compositional work is equally regarded. One of his signature pieces is Harmos," and you will hear that as performed by the London Jazz Composers Orchestra recorded live in Krakow Poland. Saxophonist Jaleel Shaw's new Painter Of The Invisible provides ...
Fabian Dudek, Dan Weiss, Jasper Hoiby & Mazam

by Maurice Hogue
German alto player Fabian Dudek's new This Every Place is an indication that Dudek's forming his own improvisational language, and his album is graced with the presence of Ingrid Laubrock. A definite must listen. There's a similar path followed by the Portuguese quartet, Mazam, on their new Pilgrimage Vol. 2. Drummer Dan Weiss' latest features a ...
Izumi Kimura: Butterfly Effect

by Ian Patterson
Japanese pianist Izumi Kimura has earned plaudits through her various improvisation-based projects with double bassist Barry Guy, percussionist Gerry Hemingway, and guitarists Christy Doran and Tommy Halferty, to cite just a few of her principal collaborators. But Kimura, a long-term resident in Ireland, is equally compelling when going it alone. Over the years, she has clocked ...
Darrifourcq/Hermia/Ceccaldi, Evans/Eldh & Irène Schweizer

by Maurice Hogue
There are two mini themes running through this edition of One Man's Jazz: one is musical partners, as in the trio of Sylvain Darrifourcq, saxophonist Manuel Hermia and cellist Valentin Ceccaldi who have released but three recordings in their 13 years of trio-hood yet believe their time spent together has let them develop into one of ...
Music from Favourite Recordings played on One Man’s Jazz in 2024

by Maurice Hogue
Adding to the countless lists of best-of"s for 2024, here are almost three hours of music from my favourite recordings of 2024. (See the One Man's Jazz web site for the full list.) The only album not among the favourites is the very recently received Landloper by famed bassist Arild Andersen; it's solo deliciousness.
Ian Patterson's Best Jazz (And Beyond) Albums Of 2024

by Ian Patterson
A terrific year for new jazz releases, the breath and depth of the music from all corners of the world underlining the robust health of jazz a quarter of the way into the 21st century. Northbound Pernille Bevort Gateway Music There is a poetic ...
Six Hands Open As One

By Izumi Kimura
Label: Fundacja Sluchaj,
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Unexpected: (i) Days Into Night (ii) Sanctuary (iii) Corridors (iv) Spirit; Cloud Echoes; Gnomon; Underdrift.