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Miki Hayama

Pianist Miki Hayama was born in Kyoto, Japan. She began to play piano and Wadaiko (Japanese drums) when she was 6 years old. During her junior high school year, she was first introduced to Jazz because of her father's Jazz collections and became interested in jazz. She studied at Osaka College of Music where majored in classic piano for two years. While she was at the Osaka College of Music, She attended Fuji jazz School in Kyoto and studied Jazz piano with well known teaher and jazz pianist Sadayasu Fujii. She is the first prize winner at the Yokohama Jazz Competition in 1996. After graduated from College, she started to work and play at many Jazz clubs in Kansai area

Adonis Rose Piece Of Mind Live At The Blue Llama

By ADONIS ROSE

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Keep Your Soul Together; Piece of Mind; Entropy; Nostalgic Impressions; Lovely; Maurice’s Rap; Sunny Side of the Street; Blue Llama Jam.

Sylwester Ostrowski: Building Cultural Connections Globally with Jazz

By CHEPTOO KOSITANY

Sylwester Ostrowski is an accomplished tenor saxophonist, composer, producer, and bandleader of the Jazz Brigade. He is experiencing major success in his music career, built around collaboration with other artists, and partnering with jazz institutions through his organization Szczecin Jazz. Ostrowski's global connections span four continents from Europe, North America, Africa, to Asia. Ostrowski ...

New York Japanese Jazz Festival 2019

By PETER JUREW

New York Japanese Jazz Festival Smoke Jazz & Supper Club New York, NY June 25-27, 2019 The Japanese people's love for jazz, rock, blues and other forms of music with African-American roots has been well established for decades. Working bands and musicians at all levels of fame regularly make the Land ...

In Our Own Way

By SYLWESTER OSTROWSKI

Label: Self Pro
Released: 2018
Track listing: Brigade Before It’s Too Late ft. Darius Brubeck & Deborah Brown Revolution Nie jest Źle ft Dorota Miśkiewicz Whims of a Waltz Sudden Impact In Your Own Sweet Way ft. Darius Brubeck In Our Own Way ft. Dorrey Lin Lyles Akatombo

Mimi Jones: Balance

By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI

Balance is one of three new titles released in February 2014 by Hot Tone Music, the label founded by bassist/vocalist Mimi Jones. “Hot Tone Music was created to give chances to those who may have been overlooked and denied the necessary support and knowledge to develop," Jones explains. “Women are a big part of that group, ...

Raising Vision and Voice

By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI

Decades ago, Archie Shepp and Sun Ra were among the first musicians to expand their vision for the human voice beyond the traditional verse-chorus-verse song structure. Today, through digital sampling and other technology, musicians incorporate and manipulate the human voice in ways that even these two iconoclasts might not recognize. At the same time, the profound ...

Mimi Jones: Balance

By HRAYR ATTARIAN

Virtuoso bassist and superlative bandleader Mimi Jones' (AKA Miriam Sullivan) Balance is a delightful album filled with 79 minutes of engaging music. Despite the title, however, it is an unevenly structured work. The edgy, dramatic “The Incy Wincy Spider" for instance completely deconstructs the children's rhyme into an intriguing, darkly hued and haunting piece. ...

Diego Rivera: The Contender

By JUD BRANAM

Like the famous muralist from whom he got his name, Michigan tenor saxophonist Diego Rivera covers a lot of stylistic ground while adhering to a workmanlike theme on his new CD, The Contender. Rivera leads a powerful sextet through an 11-song set of brawny, orthodox post-bop that carries on the blowing session tradition in ...