Jazz was always my dream,” - confessed big pop star in his native Japan in the ‘80s and ‘90s, - Senri Oe. In order to manifest that musical reality, Oe relocated to Manhattan in 2008 and took up courses in composition and theory at The New School of Jazz in Greenwich Village.
By 2013, he was recording with two-horn quintets (Boys Mature Slow) and big-band ensembles (Spooky Hotel) instead of synthesizers, drum programs, and bubblegum beat-boxes. Collective Scribble (2015) and Answer July (2016) saw Oe stretch out with Grammy-winning vocalists the New York Voices.
But Oe never completely dropped the pop.
On his fifth solo (and first “pure piano”) jazz release—the delightful new Boys and Girls—Oe sneaks a few glances in his rear-view mirror to conjure some clever rearrangements of his most popular Japanese hits.
Not a fan of thumping electronica or frenetic club music? No worries: Boys and Girls is just one man emoting with his piano. So if you never heard “Arigato,” “Wallabee Shoes,” “Rain,” and “Never See You Again” before, you won’t spot the difference: You’ll already be under Oe's spell, succumbing to tranquility at the threshold of a musical safe haven marked by twinkly trebles and rich, reverberating left-hand lows.
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