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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.
Maluba Orchestra
Label: Stunt Records/Sundance Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: 1. Circling Back (Lundin)
2. Vibe (Mazur)
3. Marcology part I-III (Bai)
4. Night Travel (Lundin)
5. Maluba Birds (Mazur)
6. Presto Hymne (Mazur)
7. Windy Wish (Mazur)
8. Maluba Fanfare (Mazur). __
9. Hattifnat (Bai)
10. All’s Well that Ends Well (Lundin, Bach)
Reykjavik Jazz Festival 2018
by Luca Vitali
Reykjavik Jazz Festival Reykjavik, Iceland September 5-9, 2018 Iceland has produced, and continues to produce, many outstanding artists--some of them world-famous, such as Björk, Múm, Sigur Rós, Ólafur Arnalds, Gus Gus, Emiliana Torrini, Of Monsters and Men--which is quite remarkable if one thinks that the country has less than 350,000 inhabitants. 130,000 ...
Reykjavik Jazz Festival 2018
by Luca Vitali
Reykjavik Jazz Festival Reykjavik, Islanda 5-9.9.2018 L'Islanda ha prodotto, e produce, una grande quantità di artisti, alcuni dei quali molto conosciuti a livello internazionale come Björk, Múm, Sigur Ros, Ólafur Arnalds, Gus Gus, Emiliana Torrini, Of Monsters and Men... il che, a pensarci bene, ha dell'incredibile, se pensiamo che il ...
Where The Sea Breaks
Label: Enja Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: 1. Prologue
2.Once Upon The Sea
3.Dance of The Praying Mantis
4.Gallop
5.Mou Ikai
6.Horizontal Dream
7.Vintervals 1
8.Ilter Fabel
9.Entangled
10.Your Song
11.That's Life
12.Kite
13.Scherzo For Blue
Bergamo Jazz Festival 2017
by Libero Farnè
Bergamo Jazz Festival Bergamo, varie sedi 19-26.03.2017 Il Bergamo Jazz Festival, che nel 2018 doppierà la boa della quarantesima edizione, per il secondo anno consecutivo è stato diretto da Dave Douglas, il quale ha imbastito un programma decisamente vario, coinvolgendo un numero sempre maggiore di sedi nella Città Alta e nella ...
Gong
Label: Gateway Music
Released: 2016
Track listing: 1.Beneath The Seabed
2.The Invisible
3.Circular
4.Piece Of May
5,Puddles
6.Serial Attacks
7.Dai Dai
8.Gong
9.Still
10.Bobbit
11.Peace
Binocular
Label: Stunt Records/Sundance Music
Released: 2011
Track listing: Migrating South; Dialogue #1; Shifting Light; Jagged; Dialogue #2; La
Tourneuse De Pages; House Of Ants; Readings; When The Road Curves;
Snare Drum; Expectations; Oslo.
Makiko Hirabayashi/Flemming Agerskov: Binocular
by Budd Kopman
Binocular is an extraordinary piece of musical art. Pianist Makiko Hirabayashi has a distinct, recognizable style of composition and performance. Her music has a kind of floating quality created by melodic phrases and lines which imply tonality rather than stating it, phrase lengths and rhythmic accents which further weaken any overt tonality, plus a ...
Surely
Label: Enja Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Surely; Moon Bells; Asunder Asunder; Life Of A Cactus; Stepping On
It; Black; Ode To Okinawa; Eagles And Angels; Parachute City; Vad
Vinkel; Paradox; Challenge; Indigo.
