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Makiko Hirabayashi
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Makiko Hirabayashi is a Japanese pianist and composer, based in Copenhagen since 1990. She has received wide critical acclaim as a personal voice on the international jazz scene since the release of her debut album as a leader in 2006. Throughout the last two dacades, she has toured extensively through Europe and Asia with her trio featuring Marilyn Mazur and Klavs Hovman, her quartet Weavers and with diverse projects led by Europe’s top notch musicians.
Makiko’s latest and tenth studio album “Gifts” (enja 2025) is recorded with her qaurtet Weavers, following their first album which won Jazz Album Of The Year at Danish Music Awards 2021. Triggered by a composition commission by the Händel Festival in Halle, the making of this album served as a deeply personal journey for the Tokyo born pianist. Memories of Händel’s music she heard in her youth have inspired her to write nine tracks that sound both new and reflective – symbolizing the universal quality of Händel’s music and its transformative power. The music on this album, featuring some of the leading figures on the Scandinavian music scene – Fredrik Lundin (sax), Thommy Andersson (b) and Bjørn Heebøll (d) – flows effortlessly through intricate written passages and improvisation, while keeping the collective, creative force at its core.
Remembering Marilyn Mazur: Percussion Shaman
by Ian Patterson
Marilyn Mazur, the trailblazing Danish drummer, percussionist, composer and bandleader, who enjoyed an extraordinarily varied career, has died at the age of 70. In over fifty years working in jazz and improvised music, Mazur collaborated with Alex Riel, Wayne Shorter, Gil Evans, Charlie Mariano, Jon Balke, Dhafer Youssef, and Jan Garbarek, amongst many others. She holds ...
The Final Batch of My Favorite 2025 Jazz Things - Part 6
by Ludovico Granvassu
Enjoy the last installment of our retrospective dedicated to the songs discovered over the past six months that left a lasting impression.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 The Five Corners Quintet “Lighthouse" Chasin' the Jazz Gone By (Columbia) 0:16 Host talks 5:29 Makiko Hirabayashi ...
I Dischi del 2025 secondo Ludovico Granvassu
by Ludovico Granvassu
Immortalare la bellezza e la varietà del jazz pubblicato nel 2025 attraverso una “top ten" appare tanto arduo, vano--e alla fine deludente--quanto cercare di fotografare un tramonto sulla costiera amalfitana usando una rudimentale fotocamera digitale e facendo un forellino sul copriobiettivo. Certo, una foto verrà scattata. Potrebbe persino dimostrare che eri lì, in quel momento, quando ...
Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2025
by Ludovico Granvassu
Capturing the breathtaking beauty, range, and diversity of jazz released in 2025 through a list of “10 best albums" feels as challenging, vain--and ultimately disappointing--as trying to photograph the Grand Canyon at sunset by placing a pinhole in front of a rudimentary digital camera's lens. Sure, a picture will be taken. It might even prove you ...
Gifts
Label: Enja Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: High Tide
Weightless
Darkness And Light
Red
Up River
Gifts
Ghosts
Surely
Echoes
Saha Gnawa, Makiko Hirabayashi, Louis Sclavis, Amir ElSaffar, Roberto Ottaviano
by Ludovico Granvassu
Another episode of Mondo Jazz, another constellation of global musical connections--spanning Morocco to India, Basque to Arabic traditions, and the space where classical and world influences meet.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Saha Gnawa feat. Donny McCaslin “Negshah" Saha Gnawa (Pique-nique) 0:16 Host talks ...
A Few More of My Favorite 2023 Jazz Things - Part 3
by Ludovico Granvassu
A playlist with a few more among the songs that we have collected through the past six months with a plan to share them, all at once, in an attempt to close out the year under more than a few good notes. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. ...
Meteora
Label: Enja Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1.Warp
2.Birds Ascending
3.The Door
4.Chestnut Alley
5.Meaningful Encounter
6.Skorpio Recital
7.Meteor
8.Infinity
9.Desert Rose
10.Kilden
Ava Mendoza, Daniel Karlsson, Makiko Hirabayashi, Hannah Marks & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
From wall of sound albums to projects of sparse beauty, this week we cover the whole sonic gamut, with a special attention to the trio format, because... three is the perfect jazz number!Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" Mondo Jazz Theme 0:00 Daniel Karlsson Trio ...
