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Miki Hirose: Scratch
by Edward Blanco
Presenting a superb list of new originals, New York-based trumpeter Miki Hirose delivers an impressive second effort on Scratch providing a challenging yet, very accessible musical statement that reflects in some part, his affinity for the Latin genre. Originally from Kobe, Japan, Hirose came to New York City in 2003 and has since become an important ...
Longwood Gardens' Wine and Jazz Festival: Kennett Square, PA, June 2, 2012
by Victor L. Schermer
Longwood Gardens' Wine and Jazz FestivalThe Meadows at Longwood GardensKennett Square, PAJune 2, 2012After a night of thunderstorms and tornado warnings, the weather cleared at Longwood Gardens, a horticultural conservancy spread over a wide swath of countryside in Kennett Square, Chester County, PA. The day turned out sunny and mild, perfect ...
Carolyn Leonhart: Tides of Yesterday
by Marcia Hillman
Vocalist Carolyn Leonhart and saxophonist Wayne Escoffery are a young husband-and-wife team, and Tides of Yesterday is their second recorded partnership. And a partnership it is, because this CD (as the liner notes say) is not about a “vocalist with a band or a band with a guest vocalist." Leonhart's sultry and expressive voice acts, at ...
Do You Like Cappuccino?
By Toru Dodo
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2009
Track listing: Evidence; Wawawawa; Do You Like Cappuccino?; My Love Song; The Sahara; Miagetegoran Yorunohoshio; Arubabura; Manhattan Volcano; In a Sentimental Mood; Air; Impression of Aiki.
Vibin': Jay Hoggard, Joe Baione, Ken Fowser/Behn Gillece, Mark Sherman & Roy Ayers
by Graham L. Flanagan
Jay HoggardSoular PowerJHVM2009 Joe BaioneOh Yeah!self-published2009 Ken Fowser/Behn GilleceFull ViewPosi-Tone2009 Mark ShermanLive @The Bird's EyeMiles High2008
Toru Dodo: Do You Like Cappuccino?
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Listeners who look to a musician's collegiate trajectory for elucidation on his craft may find themselves at a loss, but Toru Dodo's biography gives us something to work with right away. Prior to studying at Berklee College of Music, Dodo attended Meiji University in Tokyo, where he got a degree in Economics. His intellectual preparation seems ...
Pianist Toru Dodo and Trio at Cleopatra's Needle, NYC
by AAJ Staff
Toru Dodo Cleopatra's Needle New York, New York October 26, 2008 Japanese pianist Toru Dodo and his trio are the featured act on Sunday nights at Cleopatra's Needle, 92nd and Broadway, New York City. Dodo plays a full set, then hosts the Sunday night jam. His trio usually has bassist ...
Dodo 3
By Toru Dodo
Label: JazzCity Productions
Released: 2007
Track listing: R or B; Bolivia; Boneless & Skinless; Inside Bubbles; NYUCS (New York Underground Car Service); A Spiral Escalator; Arabesuque; Giacomo Swing; Brush Pitch; My Romance; For Mr. M (Sazae's Theme); T. Dog's Theme.
Toru Dodo: Dodo 3
by Woodrow Wilkins
There seems to be an unshakable perception that jazz is only for old people. Accordingly, many people believe that the only jazz musicians are either old or dead. Every once in a while an artist comes along and contradicts that sort of thinking. Toru Dodo, a native of Tokyo, Japan, is a composer, ...
Toru Dodo: Tokyo Storm Warning
by Jason Crane
On the new episode of The Jazz Session, Jason Crane interviews Japanese pianist Toru Dodo. Born in Tokyo, Dodo started playing piano at age 4, then gave up his dream of concert piano for the economics department at Tokyo's Meiji University. He found jazz at Meiji, and eventually came to the United States to study at ...
