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NAGOYA JAZZ WEEK

NAGOYA JAZZ WEEK
World pop music Musical show

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NAGOYA JAZZ WEEK is a special jazz concert held in this September. Many domestic and foreign artists will appear in the event.

Their performances will enchant the audiences of the world with unique sounds.

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Original Love underwent some dramatic changes along with the transition from an indie label to the major leagues, and one of the most dramatic changes was in the adoption of a completely new sound – one far more in line with the Shibuya-kei movement that was quickly picking up steam than the rock music that Tajima first made his name with.

After making a splash in the late 80s indie scene, Takao Tajimas Original Love was quickly picked up by a major label hungry for a piece of the Shibuya-kei pie – but the band that got signed to Toshiba EMI in 1991 was an entirely different beast than the one that recorded the groups self-titled debut back in 1988. Original members Yukihiro Akiyama and Makoto Ori had since left the group, replaced on drums and bass, respectively, by Shigeo Miyata and studio player Tomio Inoue – the latter of whom played on recordings and toured with the group, but was never an official member. Partially due to the lineup change, which also found the group adding keyboard player Ryuutarou Kihara and brass/woodwind specialist Nobuyuki Mori, and partially due to the influence of Pizzicato Five (which Tajima had been a member of until being replaced by vocalist Maki Nomiya in 1990), the Original Love of Kesshou -SOUL LIBERATION-, the groups first original album for a major label, bore little resemblance to its earlier incarnation, and the music was all the better for it.

Clearly inspired by the popularity of Shibuya-kei contemporaries Flippers Guitar, Pizzicato Five and Bridge, Kesshou found Tajima branching out from references to 60s English psychedelia and finding inspiration in 70s jazz, funk and soul. While not to the same extent as acts like Rats & Star, the influence of black music on Original Love could hardly be understated, and the groups music palette was all the richer for it. Tajima had already flirted with jazz and world-music sounds with Pizzicato Five, with Kesshous use of tribal percussion a direct continuation of the other groups African Queen, and the albums vibrant cross-cultural appropriation lent a real gravity to the soul liberation in its title.

Although finding the true highest point of Kesshou is incredibly difficult – its a fantastic album through and through – million secrets of jazz makes the strongest contender for the title. With new players Kihara and Mori taking center stage as the group runs through a dizzying number of jazz standards, the song is one of the most fun things in the bands discography – and about as far away from the neo-GS style of Original Love as possible. Through its numerous twists and turns, million secrets tells you in so many ways why Tajima was so eager to leave rock behind for the greener pastures of Shibuya-kei, and he was as every bit as deft in the new style he adopted as he was in the old one he was leaving behind.

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The Manhattan Transfer is a jazz vocal group founded in 1969 that has explored a capella, vocalese, swing, standards, Brazilian jazz, rhythm and blues, and pop music.

In 1981, the Manhattan Transfer made music history by becoming the first group to win Grammy awards for both popular and jazz categories in the same year. "The Boy from New York City", a cover of the 1965 success by The Ad Libs, reached the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 and won them the award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, and "Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)" earned them a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group.

In September 1983, the group released the album Bodies and Souls, with an urban-contemporary style which resulted in two R&B chart singles. The first was the No. 2 hit "Spice of Life", which was co-written by former Heatwave member Rod Temperton who had penned several hits for Michael Jackson. The single also reached No. 40 on the US pop chart and No. 19 in the UK. The other single, the ballad "Mystery" (#80 R&B, No. 102 Pop), was later covered by Anita Baker on her 1986 album Rapture.

In 1985, the group released two albums; the first was Bop Doo-Wopp, which included both live and studio recordings, and the second was Vocalese, which received twelve Grammy nominations—at the time making it second only to Michael Jackson's Thriller as the most nominated single album ever. The group won in two categories: Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group, and Best Arrangement for Voices. This was followed by a live recording of many of these songs titled Live. This concert, recorded in Japan, was also released on VHS and DVD, later titled Vocalese Live.

For their next album, Brasil (1987), the group headed south to work with Brazilian songwriters and musicians Ivan Lins, Milton Nascimento, Djavan and Gilberto Gil. Brasil won a Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

The group did not release any studio albums again until 1991, when they signed with the Sony Music label and released The Offbeat of Avenues, featuring original material written or co-written by members of the quartet. Their efforts brought them their 10th Grammy award, for the song "Sassy". This was followed by the release of their first holiday album entitled The Christmas Album in 1992.

Switching back to Atlantic Records as their distributor, they released Tonin' (a collection of R&B and popular successes from the 1960s), The Manhattan Transfer Meets Tubby the Tuba (a children's album), and their 1997 album Swing which covered 1930s-era swing music. Their final album for Atlantic was The Spirit of St. Louis in 2000, dedicated to the music of Louis Armstrong. The group was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998.

In 2011, while receiving treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma, Cheryl Bentyne was replaced on stage for eight months by the soprano Margaret Dorn; Dorn replaced her again December 2013 (followed by Katie Campbell in early 2014) while Bentyne underwent further treatment. Tim Hauser was absent from the stage in 2013 and early 2014 as he recovered from spinal surgery; he was replaced on stage by bass/baritone Trist Curless of the a cappella group m-pact.

In September 2013, one of the original members of the group, Erin Dickins, started a Kickstarter campaign to re-record "Java Jive" with the surviving original members. It featured Tim Hauser's scat musings, as well as a vocal arrangement by Marty Nelson - sung by Dickins, Nelson, Hauser and Gene Pistilli. The project was successfully funded on October 9, 2013 and released on the CD "Java Jive" on Dot Time Records. Original member Pat Rosalia died from cancer in July 2011. Tim Hauser died of cardiac arrest on October 16, 2014.

Following Hauser's death, the group announced Curless would replace him.

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The Yoshida Brothers (吉田兄弟 Yoshida Kyōdai) are Japanese musicians who have released several albums on the Domo Records label.

The two brothers are performers of the traditional Japanese music style of Tsugaru-jamisen which originated in northern Japan. They debuted in 1999 in Japan as a duo playing the shamisen. Their first album sold over 100,000 copies and made them minor celebrities in Japan, a fact that surprised the Yoshida Brothers themselves. They have since attracted an international audience.

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Their music has been a fusion of the rapid and percussive Tsugaru-jamisen style along with Western and other regional musical influences. In addition to performing songs that are only on the shamisen, they also use instruments such as drums and synthesizers.

The commercials for Nintendo's Wii video game console that began airing in North America in November 2006 featured the Yoshida Brothers song "Kodo (Inside the Sun Remix)".

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Kokufu Hiroko (August 26, 1959 -) is a jazz pianist and composer born in Tokyo. Hiroko studied classical piano at Kunitachi Music College and achieved excellence there by playing such classics as Schubert and Ravel. After graduation, she went to New York to study Jazz under the guidance of some great musicians including Mr. Barry Harris.

In 1987, she made her first album More Than You Know which was released in Japan by JVC. This album was highly acclaimed in Japan as a debut album of a great woman pianist & composer who represents the newer.

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Since then, she has had 9 albums released in Japan and 4 in the US, some of which also have been released in other areas of Asia and Europe.They are all-successful because of the warm, beautiful melodies and pop influences of her compositions, which are embodied in her thrilling, hot improvisations.

Hiroko has gained worldwide popularity now, having played at several international events including the Jakarta Jazz Festival (in Indonesia) and the Catalina Island Jazz Festival (in the US).

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Les Freres ( Les Freres ) is a Japanese brother piano duo formed on September 3, 2002 by brothers Moriya Saito and Saito Keiji. "Les Freres" means "brothers" in French. Both brothers studied at the Luxembourg National Music School.

On November 8, 2006, they made major debut with the album "Piano Breaker - Piano Breaker -" which is the highest ranking of the pianist debut in the Oricon Weekly Chart, entered the first TOP 20 in history.

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On March 8, 2007, the first overseas were performed. On May 5, 2010 - the first European tour to be held (France, Luxembourg, Belgium).

On September of 2017, the duo released her fifth album "Piano Infinity" (Universal Music) and conducted a tour with the album.

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This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Tanakaka", "Les Freres", "Naoko Terai", "Kawai Ikuko", "Hiroko Kokufu", "Kazuya Kuroda", "Sato Takeyoshi", "Herbie Hancock", "Sadao Watanabe", "Takeo Moriyama", "Kazumi Watanabe", "Brother Yoshida", "Tigran Hamasyan", "Yosuke Yamashita", "The Manhattan Transfer", "Kenko Ken (jazz bassist)", "Koji Goto (jazz pianist)", "Original Love (TAJIMA Takao)", "Ryosuke Kawamura (bassist / composer and arranger)", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
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