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All About Jazz members are invited to enter the “Taeko Kunishima - Late Autumn“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on September 29th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Taeko Kunishima at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! About Taeko Kunishima Taeko ...

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Return to Life

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Label: 33 Jazz
Released: 2011
Duration: 6:58

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Late Autumn

Label: 33 Jazz
Released: 2011
Track listing: To The Hebrides; Return To Life; The Waves; Kimie; Spring Rain; Rain Sketch; Dusk; Promise; Late Autumn.

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Article: Album Review

Taeko Kunishima: Late Autumn

Read "Late Autumn" reviewed by Lewis J Whittington


Taeko Kunishima's Late Autumn starts with a wandering solo entrance that engages the composer/pianist's stream of jazz style. It instantly feels both musically liberated and firmly rooted in multi-era reverence. This prologue, “To the Hebrides," open an otherwise freewheeling narrative by Kunishima and her dazzling lineup.After the opening track the set ignites with the ...

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Article: Album Review

Taeko Kunishima: Late Autumn

Read "Late Autumn" reviewed by Lawrence Peryer


Pianist Taeko Kunishima's third record, Late Autumn, is an exciting work full of intriguing compositions, diverse instrumentation and top-notch performances. Any one or two of these attributes, as manifested on this album, would be enough to carry the day, but the presence of all three makes for a must-hear release. Kunishima's compositional skill ...

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News: Recording

Taeko Kunishima's New Album "Late Autumn" is out Now on the 33Jazz Label

Taeko Kunishima's New Album "Late Autumn" is out Now on the 33Jazz Label

Taeko Kunishima's third album finds the pianist (born in Shizuoka, Japan, now based in London) in a mood both lyrical and risk-taking. These nine original compositions fully display Taeko's way with a melody, but this is jazz with a thoroughly contemporary sound. Opener “To The Hebrides" is a meditative piano solo, quickly followed by the driving ...

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Space to Be...

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2006
Track listing: Sakura Theme: Folk Song; Bela; A Tale of Love; Space to be Filled; Chingusa No Uta; Kokiriko Bushi; Itsuki No Komoriuta; Solitary.

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Red Dragonfly

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2006
Track listing: Red Dragonfly (duo); Misty Mountains; To Be Scolded; Cold winter; The Moon Above the Ruined Castle; Ink-Black Night; Night of the Hazy Moon; Tears in the rain; Full Moonlight; Red Dragonfly (band).

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Article: Album Review

Taeko Kunishima: Red Dragonfly

Read "Red Dragonfly" reviewed by Nic Jones


Taeko Kunishima and her quartet have largely managed to avoid a lot of the well-covered ground in the modern mainstream area, and in so doing she's carved out an identity for herself both as a composer and a piano improviser--while the group, admirably suited to the subtle, implied demands of her music, has succeeded in carving ...

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Cold Winter

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Label: Unknown label
Released: 2006
Duration: 4:51


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