Kind of Hirahara

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Art Hirahara (born 1971 in San Francisco ) is a Japanese -born American jazz pianist and composer of modern jazz . He is also a music producer .

Life

Hirahara studied music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the California Institute of the Arts . He moved to New York City from the San Francisco Bay Area in 2003 and has been part of the New York jazz music scene ever since.

The pianist's debut album as a leader, Edge of This Earth , was released in 2000. Posi-Tone Records released his second album in 2011 as a bandleader. Noble Path was recorded in trio with Yoshi Waki on bass and Dan Aran on drums. His third album, Libations & Meditations , was released in 2015 on the same label. The musicians Linda Oh (bass) and John Davis (drums) were involved in the trio . He also worked on Fred Ho's 2006 production Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon! / Momma's Song .

Hirahara lives in Brooklyn . He tours Japan frequently.

style

According to music critic Nate Chinen of the New York Times , Hirahara brings a wide range of skills to his albums: electronic composition techniques, West African rhythms, echoes of Balinese gamelan music and various strands of the avant-garde .

Discographic Notes

Band leader
  • 2000: Edge of This Earth , with Bob Kenmotsu (tenor sax), Jeff Alkire (alto sax), Chuck MacKinnon (trumpet), Benjamin Rubin (bass), Jason Lewis (drums).
  • 2011: Noble Path ( Posi-Tone Records ), with Yoshi Waki ​​(bass), Dan Aran (drums).
  • 2014: Libations & Meditations (Posi-Tone), with Linda Oh (bass), John Davis (drums).
  • 2017: Central Line , with Donny McCaslin

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Otonowa with Akira Tana ( Memento of 20 June 2015, Internet Archive ), Stanford University on July 10th, 2015
  2. ↑ a b Vocal overdubs, editing and Mixing , PledgeMusic from August 6, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Albums from Art Hirahara and Death Grip ( Memento April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Wayback Archive of the New York Times January 5, 2015, accessed August 29, 2015
  4. ↑ Art Hirahara - Noble Path ( Memento from August 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), review in Down Beat August 2011 p. 70.
  5. ↑ Art Hirahara: Libations & Meditations (2014) , review of All About Jazz from December 16, 2014.
  6. ^ "Art Hirahara" , Posi-Tone Records, accessed August 29, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Hirahara, Art
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco