Results for "JMS"

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Escher's Staircase

August 11, 2025

Album: Landscape
By Junichiro Mataga
Label: JMS
Released: 2024
Duration: 04:15

Article: Album Review

Japanese pianist Junichiro Mataga made the move to the United States in 2019 to study jazz piano. He completed his Master of Music in Jazz Studies at the Aaron Copland School of Music in New York. With that background and a good deal of success in competitions--the Lennon Award in jazz for songwriting in the jazz ...

Album

Landscape

By Junichiro Mataga

Label: JMS
Released: 2024
Track listing: View from the Boundary Line; Reflection; Clockwork; Body and Soul; Zig-Zag;. Escher's Staircase; Slowly and Broadly; What Do You Mean By That?; Spring Waltz; You Are the Living Word.

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Sketches

By Junichiro Mataga

Label: JMS
Released: 2021
Track listing: Midnight Shore; C.C.T,; Cave; I Mean You; Little Cheers; Scramble Crossing; Light and the Darkness; Time to Work; Loop; Total Praise.

Article: Multiple Reviews

3x3: Piano Trios: October 2021

by Geno Thackara
October 11, 2021

It's a pretty worldly mix of trios here. While the instrumental setup is familiar as ever, these are players always happy to take it out of jazz land and wander anywhere else they wish. Jim Funnell's Word Out! Live in Japan Self Produced 2021 While Jim Funnell isn't notably ...

Article: Album Review

Junichiro Mataga: Sketches

by Jack Bowers
August 16, 2021

Sketches, the U.S. debut recording by Japanese-born, New York-based pianist/composer Junichiro Mataga, encompasses nearly an hour of genial contemporary jazz ably performed by Mataga, bassist Yoshiki Yamada and drummer Yosuke Nagayama. Even though he was quite busy as a leader and sideman in Tokyo, Mataga decided in 2019 to move to New York City to study ...

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New York Rendez-Vous

By Didier Lockwood

Label: JMS
Released: 1995
Track listing: Juggling In Central Park; Waltzy; Cousin William; Anatole Blues; Gordon; Reminiscence; Don't Drive So Fast; Eastern Dance; Tom Thumb.