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Sketches

Started in 2011, SKETCHES is a Brooklyn-based collective jazz quintet in which each member writes music based on another member's musical idea. Before each rehearsal members post a sketch from their notebook (e.g. any musical fragment, a collection of fragments, an incomplete tune) and another member uses that as the basis for a new composition. Inherent in each piece is the challenge of blending two distinct musical personalities, yet with an ensemble of strong composers and sensitive performers, the results have been as engaging as they are unpredictable. Volume One is SKETCHES' first release after working on this concept for over a year – writing, rehearsing, and performing in New York's Small's Jazz Club and Douglass Street Music Collective – until a cohesive set of material was ready to record

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News: Award / Grant

Breakthrough Jazz Composition 'Escher’s Staircase' Wins Lennon Award

Breakthrough Jazz Composition 'Escher’s Staircase' Wins Lennon Award

Junichiro Mataga Wins Lennon Award for “Escher’s Staircase" Jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Junichiro Mataga has won the Lennon Award in the Jazz category of the 2024 John Lennon Songwriting Contest with his original composition, “Escher’s Staircase." The piece, which had already garnered significant attention for its innovative approach and technical brilliance, now stands as the ...

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Sketches

Label: Dennis Winge
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. In the Park 06:24 2. Kalahari Trek 04:54 3. Pass the Vegan Butter 04:46 4. Juggling 04:42 5. 5 Had 6 04:29 6. Party at Stubblefield’s 05:31 7. Page 4 04:47 8. Polyrhythmic Blues 05:10 9. Shared 05:25 10. 7 dates 5 03:00 11. Yo 05:00 12. Feedin’ Time at the Chicken Shack 05:02

Album

Sketches

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Why the Moon is Blue; Presently; Ginger Blues; Flight; Debt; Black Eyed Suzie; Sketches.

Album

Sketches

Label: JMS
Released: 2021
Track listing: Midnight Shore; C.C.T,; Cave; I Mean You; Little Cheers; Scramble Crossing; Light and the Darkness; Time to Work; Loop; Total Praise.

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Article: Album Review

Junichiro Mataga: Sketches

Read "Sketches" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Sketches, the U.S. debut recording by Japanese-born, New York-based pianist/composer Junichiro Mataga, encompasses nearly an hour of genial contemporary jazz ably performed by Mataga, bassist Yoshiki Yamada and drummer Yosuke Nagayama. Even though he was quite busy as a leader and sideman in Tokyo, Mataga decided in 2019 to move to New York City to study ...

Album

Sketches

Label: ear&eyes Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Beginnings; New Three; Shape Twenty; Sketch Two; No Straight Lines; Shape Twenty-One

Album

Volume 2

Label: Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Caught In The Storm; Bibi; Sirenia; Hybrid Cars; Y&H; Wrong Place, Wrong Time; Hail From Plainville; Rub; Dyson Ritual; Not Wrong; Calm After The Storm.

Album

Volume One

Label: BaldHill Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Trust; Dark; Cornerstone; Dusk On The Porch; Shadow Search; Knew; Chain Letter CCC #1; Running With The Princess.

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SKETCHES Volume Two

Label:
Released: 2014


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