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SHOKO NAGAI - Biography Pianist Accordionist Improviser Composer Shoko Nagai is a versatile musical artist who improvises and performs with world-renowned musicians on piano and accordion and composes original scores for films and live performances. As a teenager in her native Japan, Nagai was trained on Yamaha's electronic organ, the "Electone," to perform popular music. Since moving to the U.S. from Japan and studying classical and jazz music at Berklee, she has adapted her mastery of the keyboard to prepared piano, accordions, the melodica and other instruments, often inspired by the minimalist approach of composer Takemitsu Toru
Marilyn Mazur, Angelika Niescier, Pat Thomas & Tomeka Reid
by Maurice Hogue
There's some great music coming in 2026, so I dropped in a preview tracks of upcoming albums by alto saxophonist Angelika Niescier collaborating with some of Chicago's finest, England's free jazz pianist Pat Thomas with XT (2.5 hours of screamin' free jazz on Strata Act (Joy Contemporary), Chicago's cellist supreme Tomeka Reid & quartet, Flea from ...
Holiday Music Free Zone
by Hobart Taylor
New Music from L.A.'s SML, Caroline Davis with Dustin Carlson, Shoko Nagai and from Australia the Travis Jenkins Trio. Playlist SML “How You Been" from How You Been (International Anthem) 00:00 Host Speaks 04:15 Joy Harjo “One Day There Will Be Horses" from I Pray for my Enemies (Sunyata) 7:38 Shoko Nagai “What are ...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Haeun Joo, Ishmael Ali & Satoko Fujii
by Maurice Hogue
Two never-heard-before releases present Rahsaan Roland Kirk holding forth at two 1960s gigs, recorded live at the Village Vanguard in New York and at The Penthouse in Seattle are the highlights in this episode of One Man's Jazz, along with a tasty piano trio recording by South Korean pianist Haeun Joo, Chicago cellist Ishmael Ali, a ...
Kalia Vandever shares Another View while While Billy Hart is Multidirectional!
by Hobart Taylor
Innovative trombonist/composer Kalia Vandever shares her new music, as well as tunes from Shoko Nagai, Jane Ira Bloom, Montreal's Hugo Blouin and an homage to Ray Brown from Dave Holland and John Scofield. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Yazz Ahmed “A Paradise in the Hold" from A Paradise in the Hold (Remixed) (Night Time Stories) ...
Mark Turner, Perelman/Wooley, O.N.E. & Herb Robertson
by Maurice Hogue
Acclaimed saxophonist Mark Turner's new recording, Reflections on: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, will attract attention not only for the brilliant playing, but also for the very forthright topic of a bi-racial man able to “pass" as white. Turner used as his motivation the semi-fictional account written by James Weldon Johnson, a central figure of ...
Honoring Mutual Mentorship for Musicians on the occasion of their festival October 4th, 2025 at Roulette in Brooklyn
by Hobart Taylor
Honoring Mutual Mentorship for Musicians on the occasion of their festival October 4th, 2025 at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, New York, featuring Sara Serpa, Kenny Barron, Jen Shyu, Yuhan Su, Immanuel Wilkins and many more... Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Jen Shyu “Lament for Breonna Taylor" from Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Loses (Pi Records) ...
John Lurie, Isaiah Collier, Dan Weiss & Steph Richards
by Maurice Hogue
John Lurie hasn't recorded any music since contracting Lyme disease several years ago; in fact he couldn't even listen to music because of the neurological effects of the disease. He retreated to someplace in the Caribbean then finally improved enough to come back to the US and made Painting With John for HBO. Lurie's music which ...
FIDOqrtet
By Shoko Nagai
Label: Enna Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Rayo de luna; Rain; Tsuru; Hato; Terramoto; Morning; La Coyote; Waking; Don't Go Out; Flown In; World without End.
Kirk Knuffke, Charles Lloyd, FIDOqrtet and More
by Maurice Hogue
This episode has several excellent contemporary trumpet/cornet/flugelhorn players scattered throughout the playlist: players like Brian Groder (new recording Luminous Arcs ), Dan Rosenboom, Kirk Knuffke, Nate Wooley (with Harris Eisenstadt), Ron Horton and Rob Mazurek (Chicago Underground Quartet). Those horns are staples of big bands too, so you'll hear plenty in the music from Sweden's Maluba ...
