Chihiro Yamanaka New York Trio
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Chihiro Yamanaka New York Trio

Venue:
Blue Note Beijing
B1, No. 23 Qianmen East Street Dongcheng Beijing
Date:
8/8/2019 - 8/9/2019
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Chihiro Yamanaka New York Trio
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Chihiro Yamanaka New York Trio

8/8/2019 - 8/9/2019
Blue Note Beijing
B1, No. 23 Qianmen East Street Dongcheng Beijing
220 - 340
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Pianist/Composer/Arranger: Chihiro Yamanaka
 
 
Chihiro Yamanaka is an internationally renowned and New York based jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader, whose fluid, athletic technique has drawn rave reviews and very favorable comparisons to legends such as Oscar Peterson and Art Tatum.
 
Yamanaka was born in Kiryū, in Japan's Gunma Prefecture, in 1976. At age four she began formal piano studies. While she began with classical music and still practices it, she shifted her focus to jazz studies in high school. After graduation she attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston as part of the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead residency program. She played with a wide range of musicians in Boston and in New York before heading back home to Japan after she graduated from Berklee in 2000 with honors -- and took first place in Down Beat's Outstanding Performance Award competition.
 
Temporarily returning to Japan, she began her recording career there in 2001 with Living Without Friday issued by the Japanese label Atelier Sawano. In 2005 she signed a worldwide deal with Universal's Classics and Jazz division and issued her North American debut with the trio effort Outside by the Swing, recorded in New York City with drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts and bassist Robert Hurst.
 
In 2014, Yamanaka moved from Verve to the Universal-owned Blue Note label just in time for its 75th anniversary. Her debut, Somethin' Blue, was a sextet offering, and in addition to originals offered striking renditions of Bud Powell's "Un Poco Loco" and Herbie Hancock's "I Have a Dream." She followed it the same year with Syncopation Hazard, her tribute to Scott Joplin. Yamanaka returned to the trio format for 2016's Blue Note-issued Guilty, which placed her original compositions alongside select pieces by Hoagy Carmichael. Near the end of 2017, Yamanaka produced and arranged Monk Studies. She played acoustic and electric piano, synth, and Hammond B-3 organ in an almost exclusively Monk program backed by drummer Deantoni Parks and bassist Mark Kelly.
 
Chihiro Yamanaka’s latest CD, “Prima Del Tramonto” tributed to Michel Petrucciani, one of the great jazz pianist icons was released on the 80th anniversary of Blue Note Records. 2019 is the 20th anniversary of Michel Petrucciani’s death. Chihiro has great influence and respect to Michel Petrucciani and Music of Blue Note Records.
 
This is the only chance to hear Chihiro’s trio performance in Asia. Please don’t miss it!
 
Bassist: Yoshi Waki 
 
 
Born in Fukuoka, Japan, Yoshi began to play jazz bass at age of 20. After attending Berklee College of Music in Boston, he joined the National Tour Company of Fosse, a Tony Awarded musical show and traveled around the States before settling in New York City, where he quicky established himself as a sought-after sideman. Yoshi have worked with Artie Shaw Orchestra, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Paquito D’Rivera, John Di Martino, Deborah Harry, Art Hirahara, Randy Johnston, Shunzo Ohno and others. Yoshi also teaches music theory and ensemble at Long Island University.
 
Drum: John Davis
 
 
Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana in 1981, John Davis is an enormously talented drummer in the New York scene. He received scholarships to attend the Manhattan School of Music in New York City where he began studying under Jazz education legend, John Riley. Since moving to New York he's performed at many prominent venues, including the Zinc Bar, the Jazz Standard, The Blue Note and Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola. It only takes once to see him play to know he has something special. He will surely become one of the notable drummers of his generation.

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Dates:
  • Aug. 8 (Thu.) @ 19:30 
  • Aug. 9 (Fri.) @ 19:30 or 22:00
Address: 23 Qianmen East Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing

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Chihiro Yamanaka New York Trio

Venue:
Blue Note Beijing
B1, No. 23 Qianmen East Street Dongcheng Beijing
Date:
8/8/2019 - 8/9/2019
This ticket is only available as an e-ticket
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