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Junichiro Mataga
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Junichiro Mataga is a Jazz Pianist, Jazz Composer, Arranger, and Educator based in New York City. He grew up in Niigata, Japan. He began playing piano when at six years old. He moved to Tokyo after graduating high school and began studying Jazz Piano in the University Jazz Club. He graduated from The University of Electro-Communications with a major in Master of Engineering and then worked as a Sound and Vibration Researcher at the Central Research Lab of NEC Corporation. In parallel, he was active in the Jazz scene in Tokyo, Japan. He performed in his leader band, the big band “Shiny Stockings”, the gospel band “7season”, and the jazz quartet “Beyond the Cinema”
Escher's Staircase
Album: Landscape
By Junichiro Mataga
Label: JMS
Released: 2024
Duration: 04:15
Junichiro Mataga: Landscape
by Dan McClenaghan
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 ...
Breakthrough Jazz Composition 'Escher’s Staircase' Wins Lennon Award
Junichiro Mataga Wins Lennon Award for “Escher’s Staircase" Jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Junichiro Mataga has won the Lennon Award in the Jazz category of the 2024 John Lennon Songwriting Contest with his original composition, “Escher’s Staircase." The piece, which had already garnered significant attention for its innovative approach and technical brilliance, now stands as the ...
Yuki Yamamura: View of 124
by Katchie Cartwright
Japanese bassist Yuki Yamamura and his trio mates, pianist Junichiro Mataga and drummer Yosuke Nagayama, cut their teeth in Japan, studying jazz from an early age with top Japanese player-teachers. They now live in New York, soaking up and contributing to the sounds of the great city, taking in the View of 124. 124th Street that ...
Landscape
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.
View of 124
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Heart Rate; Early Summer; The Sensualist; #2;
Oriental Waltz; View of 124; When I Just
Moved; Birth; Donny.
Sketches
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.
3x3: Piano Trios: October 2021
by Geno Thackara
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 ...
Junichiro Mataga: Sketches
by Jack Bowers
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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