DMG Search George Lewis (tb) / aki takase (p) Voyager (interactive computer pianist) pianist aki takase and trombonist Konrad Bauer in the studio in Berlin in http://72.43.108.54/Searching/WWW_DMG_Search.cgi?s3.Aki takase
Berliner Festspiele: JazzFest Berlin, Aki Takase Plays Fats Waller pianist aki takase puts on a lighthearted party with her Fats Waller project onthe occasion of the musicians 100th birthday. Waller, who did not even see http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/archiv/festivals2004/06_jazzfest/jazz_04_pro
Extractions: Newsletter Press Sitemap Imprint ... The Berliner Festspiele Other Events: The Berliner Festspiele MaerzMusik Theatertreffen Theatertreffen der Jugend Musikfest Berlin internationales literaturfestival JazzFest Berlin spielzeiteuropa Treffen Junge Musik-Szene Treffen Junger Autoren Berliner Lektionen Martin-Gropius-Bau Cooperations JazzFest Berlin
Extractions: Larry Porters Berlin Trio plays original compositions of exceptional harmonic beauty with an openness that allows for a maximum of interplay. These three musicians strive to exploit the essence of the triangle where each point is connected to the others. Whether exploring sublime ballads or dancing through sophisticated altered blues, the trio sustains a crystalline tension, creates an entire spectrum of atmospheres, and pushes the boundaries of traditional jazz form. listen to a sample: The Circle Is Unbroken (Larry Porter) LARRY PORTER - piano JOHANNES FINK - bass Born February 28, 1964 in Erlangen, Germany into a musical family; his father is a jazz pianist. Johannes began lessons in 1969 and over the years studied piano, drums, jazz guitar, cello, and double bass. Now a freelance musician in Berlin, he keeps busy with CD productions, recordings for radio and television, and live concerts in America, Asia and all over Europe. He has worked with Marc Ducret, Lee Konitz, François Théberge, Herb Robertson, Tim Berne, Ack van Rooyen, Marty Cook, Adam Pieronczyk, Aki Takase, Rudi Mahall, Allan Praskin, John Betsch, and many others. OLIVER STEIDLE - drums Born in Nürnberg in 1975. Oliver started learning drums in 1986 and eventually studied at the Nürnberg Music Conservatory. He was the winner of two German music competitions in 1998 and 1999 and played concerts and radio and television productions with Lutz Häffner, Johannes Fink, Thomas Fink, Rudi Mahall, John Schröder and Peter Weniger. He moved to Berlin in 2000 and is currently a member of Das Rosa Rauschen (Felix Wahnschaffe) and Der Rote Bereich (Frank Möbus and Rudi Mahall), which has recorded the CD Risky Business for ACT Records.
Center For Asian And Pacific Studies :: Events by aki takase and Yoko Tawada. EUGENE EVENT Tuesday, April 26, 2005 pianist and composer aki takase emerged as one of the most versatile figures in http://www.uoregon.edu/~caps/events/diagonal.html
Extractions: These events are free and open to the public Yoko Tawada (b. 1960) is considered as one of the most prestigious and important authors of her generation in both Germany and Japan. Born in Japan and educated at Waseda University and the University of Hamburg, she has been living in Hamburg since 1982 and writes poems, novels and stories in German and Japanese. She made her debut as a writer with the narrative "Missing Heels," which was awarded the Gunzo Prize for New Writers in 1991. Her work has been commended with the highest literary prize in Japan -the Akutagawa Award- and the German Adalbert-von-Chamisso Award, amongst others. Ms. Tawada has given readings at Goethe-Institutes and other cultural institutes all over the world. As the writer in residence at numerous universities, she fosters a cosmopolitan image of Germany. Her award-winning The Bridegroom Was a Dog appeared in English translation in 1998. The collection
Extractions: TOTAL MUSIC MEETING 2001 Audiology - 11 Groups Live In Berlin trumpet George Lewis trombone, electronics Conny Bauer trombone Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky reeds Giancarlo Locatelli clarinet clarinet, accordion Rudi Mahall bass clarinet Armand Angster clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet Wolfgang Fuchs contrabass clarinet Carlos Zingaro violin Mark Wastell 'cello Aki Takase piano Uli Gumpert piano Alberto Braida piano piano Hans Reichel daxophone, guitar Rhodri Davies harp Simon H. Fell double bass Jan Roder double bass percussion percussion percussion Paul Lovens percussion voice 2001 (68 mins.) in jewel box A series of excellent excerpts from performances at 2001's Total Music Meeting in Berlin. The groups include Ist Voyager Zentralquartett and many more. ALL 002 (CD) add this item to your order quotes: "The album presents a strong lineup of (mostly) European improvisers. Book-ending the track list are two pieces featuring the legendary trombonist George Lewis and his "interactive computer pianist," Voyager. In Voyage for Three , they are joined by pianist Aki Takase. The concluding
Extractions: Studied piano with Madame Maurina-Press, comp. with Wallingford Riegger, Stefan Wolpe. Was Edgard Varése Professor at State University of New York at Buffalo. Began graphic works, with open pitch and rhythm, and music "free from a compositional rhetoric" in early '50s, eg. Structures for string quartet (1951). Music with pitches given but with... Read More Mike Nock has long been one of the top modern jazz keyboardists to emerge from his part of the world. Nock began taking piano lessons from his father when he was 11. He began gigging four years later and at 18 moved to Australia. After heading a trio that toured England in 1961, Nock went to the U.S. to attend the Berklee College of Music. After... Read More
Extractions: In the niche-oriented world of major-league jazz, it's almost unfashionable to be so multi-faceted a player as Han Bennink. Bennink is one of the unfortunately rare musicians whose abilities and interests span the music's entire spectrum, from Dixieland to free. His straight-ahead playing is absolutely convincing his time is solid, his sense... Read More Eyebrows were raised in the jazz world when it was announced that the relatively obscure and young Ken Vandermark was to receive a 1999 MacArthur "Genius" grant. Previous MacArthur recipients amongst jazz musicians included Cecil Taylor and Anthony Braxton near-legendary figures who, over the course of long careers, created substantial bodies... Read More
City Hall Records:Catalog Search Results (List) takase, aki / RUDI MAHALL pianist aki takase s discography on Leo Recordscontinues to expand. Her new adventure, The Dessert, is a duo with Rudi http://www.cityhallrecords.com/item/14195.htm
Extractions: This is a 2-part suiteby the legendary former-Soviet trio; the first part, "Non-Troppo," was recorded live in West Berlin at the Akademie der Kunste in 1983 - the second part, "New Wine," was recorded live in Riga in 1982, and is one of the most tragic works in the huge repertoire of the trio - it stunned the audience so much, they forgot to clap
Outros Músicos a wellknown Japanese jazz pianist, they won the highest praise each concert . Presently, he performes with Fumio Itabashi (pf), and aki takase (pf), http://www.isa.utl.pt/HCP/outrosmusicos.html
Extractions: Guitarrist Born: October 14, 1953 Kazumi Watanabe started out on guitar at the age of 14. By the time he was 17, his skills had developed remarkably. His debut album Infinite was a major success and drew lots of attention and invitations from many predomite playres of the Japanese jazz scene (e.g. Sadao Watanabe Group). Watanabe has released 27 recordings since his debut. A host of the outstanding are: Kylyn (1979) in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto; To Chi Ka (1980) recorded in New York with producer Mike Mainieri (sold over 150000); (1983) also recorded in New York with Robbie Shakespeare (bass), Marcus Miller (bass), Sly Dunbar (drums), Omar Hakim (drums) and Michael Brecker (saxophone); (1986, 88) recorded in London, in collaboration Bill Bruford (drums); Kilowatt (1989) recorded in Los Angeles with Wayne Shorter (saxophone) and Patrick Moraz (keyboards);
Maria Joao Und Mario Laginha Bei Bremme Und Hohensee recorded ten albuns, two of them with the japanese pianist aki takase.With aki, she created one of the most famous and inovator duets of the eighties. http://www.bremme-hohensee.de/joao-laginha_e.htm
Extractions: Her voice seems to be, at the same time strange and natural, and Mário Laginha´s piano sounds perfect for the many influences of Maria João, who never ventures too far from here Portugese backround. Her amazing ability to transform delicate musical structures into tones, words and whispers is singular and simply amazing. Mumadgi is the word used in the Changana dialect of Mozambique, to define a Portuguese European. From January 2001 Mumadgi is also the name Maria João e Mário Laginha will be using to identify their joint project. To join them, they invited two of the musicians who participated on the recordings of their last album the brasilian Toninho Ferragutti and the Norwegian Helge Norbakken. A new album recorded live in Barcelona and Oporto will be release in 2001. The repertoire will be mainly from "Chorinho Feliz" and "Cor" albums. Concerts in the year 2000 were performed in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Washington, Paris, Rio, Munich, Berlin, Weimar, Grorizia, Dublin, and of course in many places in Portugal.
Land Of A Thousand Dances 20 Maria João aki takase, Send in the Clowns Now the singer, well, thesinger s first language is She turns out to be the accompanying pianist. http://www.epicharmus.com/2002_12_01_loatdarch.html
Extractions: Now the singer, well, the singer's first language is most obviously not English. From the sound of it, she's doing it all phonetically. Nearly every word shows signs of a struggle. She blithely misses all those verbal cues native Englishers don't notice until they go wrong in a spectular fashion. Words are often accented in completely the wrong way, as if she's got no experience about what usually means what. She pronounces words apologetically, even go as far as wrecking the rhythm of a line to make sure all those hard consonants are nice and sharp: "...one, who keeps stearing arount..." and "WITH. My UuuZZzzuaaal flaairrr." I've been listening to this for weeks and I've assumed that Takase the one with the Japanese-sounding name was the singer. Ha ha ha, the joke's on me. She turns out to be the accompanying pianist. Maria João is the singer...and she's from Portugal, not Japan. Still sounds Japanese to me. She has a very girlish voice, and nearly every Japanese woman vocalist I've ever heard is girlish-sounding to some degree. (But I listen to a LOT of j-pop so what could I know?)
Asian American Arts Centre--Current Exhibitions Collaboration with takase aki Jazz pianist, Yoshioka SatomiVisual Artist,Musashino Art University, Tokyo. 1985 Oneperson Show, Art Space 88 Gallery, http://www.artspiral.org/artist_template.html?art=NiizekiHiromi&need=bio&id=7307
Musical Calendar For January 26 1956 Steve Dobrogosz, composer/pianist/lyricist, b. Bellefonte, PA, USA. 1948 aki takase, Piano, b. Osaka, Japan. First piano lessons at just age 3. http://nfo.net/calendar/jan26.htm
Extractions: Stephane Grappelli , Violin, b. Paris, France, d. Dec. 1, 1997. Stephane, a wonderful violinist, overcame many obstacles before becoming one of the greatest Jazz violinists of our time. He lost his mother when he was just 3, and later had to live in an orphanage during WW1 while he father was away fighting in the war. He had played in a number of different bands before he met Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, and, with 3 others, formed the 'Quintette du Hot Club de France'. (please see Django's entry above on Jan.23th.) The group performed together until separated during WW2 in 1939. Subsequently, he toured the world almost continually until his death at age 89.
Pianist And Piano Players takase, aki Japanese pianist and componist, living in Germany; includes biography,CDs, projects. Teissonnire, Gerardo - Includes reviews, biography, http://www.onlypiano.com/html/pianists.html
Extractions: var sc_project=369885; var sc_partition=1; var sc_invisible=1; Your complete source for piano artists and fans, including piano news, music equipment, sheet music and CDs from featured performers of jazz, new-age, classical piano. Home Piano Radio Resources Forums ... About PIANISTS Click here to Add your link Piano improvs and compositions by Jeff T. Alu. Archontides, P. B. - Greek-Australian pianist. Includes biographical information press releases and upcoming events. Argerich, Martha - An index of studio and concert recordings. Argerich, Martha (b.1941) - Excerpts from a 1979 interview with Dean Elder; in-print discography; reviews. Artzt, Susanna
Www.jazzweekly.com | Reviews and improvises often with Japanese pianist aki takase and guitarist Frank Möbus.pianist Mircea Tiberian is one of the most active Romanian jazzers, http://www.jazzweekly.com/reviews/oles_contemporary.htm
Extractions: But using these themes as more than a jumping off point for unconnected soloing had to wait until a group of musicians exists that is as comfortable working on the improv side of the fence as the legit side. It also helped when some contemporary composers got over their snobbish distaste for so-called jazz music. This sea change has been particularly evident in Europe, and that's one of the reasons this CD is so special. Two young Polish players, plus a slightly older German clarinetist and a Romanian pianist, take nine pieces by contemporary Polish composers and transform them using the techniques and freedom of improv. Most notably, they don't "jazz the classics", but metamorphose the existing notation into organically legitimate new pieces. Drummer Bartlomiej Brat Oles, who arranged all the tracks, also throws in a couple of his own tunes here that naturally fuse with the other sounds. Oles and his twin brother, bassist Marcin Oles, provide the Janus-headed hope for contemporary Polish jazz establishing itself as memorable and original. Not only have the two played with local heroes like saxists Mikolaj Trzaska and Adam Pieronczyk, but also with outsiders like American reedist David Murray, German bass clarinetist Theo Jörgensmann and the two foreigners featured here. "Brat", by the way doesn't mean what it seems to for English speakers; it means "brother" in Polish.
Www.jazzweekly.com | Reviews George Lewis, trombone; aki takase, piano; Voyager, interactive computer pianist 2.IST Rhodri Davies, harp; Mark Wastell, cello; Simon H. Fell, bass 3. http://www.jazzweekly.com/reviews/various_audiology.htm
Extractions: That's why these two releases are particularly valuable. Not only do they provide a snapshot of what was happening on that Continent during 2001, but over the three CDs you can sample 18 different bands featuring both veteran explorers and tyro improv investigators. Furthermore, despite the EU and the euro, that body of water that separated Great Britain from the Continent still makes a difference. You'll hear how, as it has been for years, BritImprov is still a lot different than EuroImprov. One rational for this is that Seventh of May, recorded in London, centres on sound recorded by Matchless, the label associated with AMM and pure, almost limitless improv. Meanwhile Audiology was recorded in November 2001 in Berlin by the FMP label, which usually releases the sort of harsher, more unbending improv associated with Northern Europe. In truth, some of the most diffuse sounds on that disc come from IST, the one British band represented, if repeating the fact isn't trafficking in geographical stereotypes.
AUDIOLOGY - 11 GROUPS LIVE IN BERLIN TOTAL MUSIC MEETING 2001 George Lewis (tb) / aki takase (p) Voyager (interactive computer pianist), 0709.02. PUNKT UND LINIE IST (Improvising String Trio) http://www.fmp-online.de/fmpcds/audiology_live_berlin_total_music_meeting_2001_e
Extractions: Bestell-Nr. / Purchase Order No. : feat. (in alphabetical order): Armand Angster clarinet, bassclarinet, contrabass clarinet Conny Bauer trombone Alberto Braida piano Rüdiger Carl clarinet, accordion, claviola Rhodri Davies harp Axel Dörner trumpet Simon H. Fell double bass Agustí Fernández piano Wolfgang Fuchs contrabass clarinet Uli Gumpert piano Françoise Kubler soprano voice George Lewis trombone, interactive computer pianist VOYAGER Giancarlo Locatelli clarinets Paul Lovens drums, percussion Uli Jenneßen drums, percussion Sven-Åke Johansson drums, percussion Rudi Mahall bass clarinet Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky reeds Hans Reichel daxophone, guitars Jan Roder double bass Günter Sommer drums, percussion
Artists Moldejazz 2005 pianist aki takase is once again one of the headliners in Molde. aki takasePlayes Fats Waller Den høyst levende japanfødte takase og den åpenbare http://www.moldejazz.no/2005/site/main/oversikt_alfa.php?page_id=3105
Moldejazz - Artists Moldejazz 2005 pianist aki takase is once again one of the headliners in Molde. This time abarrierbraking and hilarious - yet still respectful tribute to one of the http://www.moldejazz.no/2005/index.php?page_id=3105
