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Kaoru Watanabe

Kaoru Watanabe is a Brooklyn based composer and musician, specializing on the Japanese taiko drum and shinobue flutes. He has spent decades artfully blending the sounds of Japanese instruments with those from around the world, collaborating with such artists as National Living Treasure Bando Tamasaburo, Jason Moran, So Percussion, Adam Rudolph, Kenny Endo, Stefon Harris, Kiyohiko Semba, Alicia Hall Moran, Tatsuya Nakatani, TaikOz, Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, Imani Uzuri, calligrapher Kakinuma Koji, visual artist Simone Leigh and has performed his compositions at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Kabukiza, Minamiza, Blue Note NYC and has performed in all 47 prefectures in Japan

Coldblooded

By Alicia Hall Moran

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Walking on Thin Ice; Wolf (pacing on the lake); Civil Twilight; River; Everybody Wants to be Carmen; Iced Cotton; Oil and Salt; Moonfunk; Destiny; Blizzard; On the Motion of Animals; Cruise Control; Trax; Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day; 2 B Cold; Inside of a Rose; The Three Kings; Oh, Glory!; Duluth (Postlude).

Sunrise

By Adam Rudolph

Label: Meta Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Clouds of Joy; Stumbled Upon; Tide Activity; Nebula; Lunar Mind; Sidereal; Inception: A Glimmer Glimpsed

Jazz em Agosto 2026, Part 2

by Petra Cvelbar
September 6, 2026

The sixth day of the 42nd edition of Jazz em Agosto continued with a performance by The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, featuring Mette Rasmussen on alto saxophone, Mariam Rezaei on turntables, Gabriele Mitelli on piccolo trumpet, electronics, and vocals, and Lukas König on drums, electric cymbals, and synthesizer. On the seventh day, we ...

Jazz em Agosto 2026

by Stefano Merighi
August 11, 2026

Jazz Em Agosto 2026 Fondazione Gulbenkian Lisbona 31 luglio-9 agosto 2026 È arrivata all'edizione 42 “Jazz Em Agosto," di scena negli spazi sontuosi della Fondazione Gulbenkian a Lisbona, sempre con la direzione artistica di Rui Neves. Ed è stata un'edizione all'insegna dell'eclettismo stilistico, dove il jazz continua ...

Stumbled Upon

August 11, 2026

Album: Sunrise
By Adam Rudolph
Label: Meta Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 4:42

Alexis Marcelo, Chris Potter, Nite Bjuti, Luke Norris, Adam Rudolph, Tyrone Allen II

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 6, 2026

Here's another weekly dispatch of compelling recent releases from across the ever-expanding jazz spectrum.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Chris Potter “Sister Annie" Alive with Ghosts Today (Edition) 0:16 Host talks 6:01 Luke Norris “Circular" Moment from the Past (Luke Norris) 7:29 Tyrone Allen ...

The Silkroad Ensemble at Zellerbach Hall

by Harry S. Pariser
March 31, 2026

The Silkroad Ensemble Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual Berkeley, CAMarch 27, 2026   Every sort of instrument was set out on the stage, which was bathed in red light. Everything had been readied for a very special event: a rare performance by the classical-ethnic fusion group The Silkroad Ensemble. At ...

Alicia Hall Moran: Coldblooded

by Tyran Grillo
March 16, 2026

Take a heart and cast it into water. Lower the temperature. Watch the surface tighten until motion turns into sculpture. What remains are rings expanding outward, movements frozen into memories. These are the contours listeners encounter on Coldblooded, the third meta-statement from singer and composer Alicia Hall Moran. Sound travels across its surface as a skate ...

Strum

By 9 Horses

Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Strum; Americannia; Gasparilla; Rohri; Long Time Away; Jenny-Pop Nettle Eater; Just Don't Call It That; The House That Ate Myself.