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Nobu Stowe

Nobu Stowe (Nobuyoshi Suto) was born in Maebashi, Gumma, Japan. He started taking piano lessons at age 3 and composition at age 6. Stowe moved to the US to study Music (composition) and Psychology at the University of California, at Berkeley. He then moved to Chicago to pursue graduate studies at the University of Chicago. After receiving Ph.D. in Psychology, he moved to Baltimore to work as a ‘drug researcher’ for National Institute of Health, and currently conducts researches at University of Maryland. In Baltimore, Stowe formed the post-fusion unit TRIO RICOCHET

East Side Banquet

By Nobu Stowe

Label: Ictus Records
Released: 2013
Track listing:

Confusion Bleue Live and in the Studio

by Hrayr Attarian
June 16, 2013

The collaborative combo Confusion Bleue is a rare a phenomenon on the contemporary jazz scene. Neither that the group utilizes sound snippets, nor that all their music is entirely improvised. confers on them a singularity. It is, however, the collective ability of its members to create intricate, highly orchestrated and profoundly moving pieces on the spot ...

Confusion Bleue: East Side Banquet

by Glenn Astarita
May 17, 2013

Luminously recorded at East Side Studio in New York City, the superfine Confusion Bleue band reemerges with a sterling exposition, centered upon its democratic, but largely cohesive free-form manifesto. The musicians present a resonating group-centric sound, aided by Lee Pembleton's exquisite audio-engineering via a consortium of gusty improvisations and swirling breakouts. With rapidly-moving pulses, keyboardist Nobu ...

The Soul In The Mist

By Andrea Centazzo

Label: Ictus Records
Released: 2020

Achille Succi: Nuances and Articulations

by Glenn Astarita
October 19, 2011

Saxophonist and bass clarinetist Achille Succi has recently been singled out as “one of the European musicians to keep an eye on in the next ten years" by (Bill Schoemaker in Giornale Della Musica (January 2010), while journalist Mario Gamba defines him as a “genius of Italian Jazz" in Alias (March 20th, 2010). Born ...

Confusion Bleue

By Nobu Stowe

Label: Soul Note
Released: 2010
Track listing: Introduction; Premier Mouvement; Intermede I; Deuxieme Mouvement; Intermede II; Blue in Green; Troisieme Mouvement; Intermede III; Quatrieme Mouvement; Epilogue: Dans La Confusion Bleue.

Nobu Stowe: Oltre il Free Jazz

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 15, 2010

Articolo di Glenn Astarita La musica di Nobu Stowe è sinonimo di spontaneità e romanticismo melodico—una vera rarità parlando di musica improvvisata. Stowe non solo padroneggia con maestria l'arte dell'improvvisazione totale ma attinge continuamente dal vasto panorama delle sue influenze musicali, che spaziano dal Barocco al rock progressivo, dalle colonne sonore agli elementi etnici, e molto ...

Nobu Stowe: Confusion Bleue

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 15, 2010

C'è il rapporto tra libera improvvisazione e forma al centro di Confusion Bleue, il terzo disco pubblicato per l'italiana Soul Note dal pianista di origini giapponesi, ma residente a Baltimora, Nobu Stowe. Un rapporto di spontanea interazione, in totale e programmatica assenza di scrittura, che il musicista aveva già messo in pratica nel precedente Hommage an ...

Nobu Stowe: Beyond Free

by Glenn Astarita
August 25, 2010

The music of NS (Nobu) Stowe is synonymous with the musical storytelling characterized with spontaneity and melodic romanticism--a true rarity in the field of fully improvised music. Stowe has not only mastered the art of total improvisation--a method of fully improvised music that embraces song-like melody, tonal harmony and rhythmic propulsion as well as more commonly ...