Eri Yamamoto

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Eri Yamamoto ( Japanese 山 本 江 利 , Yamamoto Eri ; * around 1970 in Osaka Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz pianist who works in the United States .

Live and act

Yamamoto took classical piano lessons at the age of three and wrote her first own compositions when she was five. In the course of her musical training, she also learned the viola and singing in addition to the piano . In Japan she studied music education and composition at Shiga University and came to New York for the first time in 1995. Under the impression of a concert by Tommy Flanagan , she began to occupy herself with jazz and shortly afterwards moved to the United States. There she continued her studies in the jazz program at New School University , where she had lessons with Reggie Workman , Junior Mance and LeeAnn Ledgerwood . In 1997 she began performing at the Avenue B Social Club in the East Village ; from 1998 she played regularly in the jazz club Arthur's Tavern in Greenwich Village .

In addition to her work in the New York jazz scene, she toured Canada, Europe, Japan, Jamaica and Australia. In 2001 she recorded her debut album Up and Coming in a trio with John Davis (bass) and Ikuo Takeuchi (drums) . She has also worked with William Parker , Daniel Carter , Hamid Drake , Federico Ughi , Whit Dickey ( Emergence , 2009), Yves Leveille ( Pianos , 2009) and Paul McCandless . Currently (2017) she leads a trio with David Ambrosio (double bass) and Ikuo Takeuchi (drums). In the field of jazz, she was involved in 22 recording sessions between 2001 and 2016. In Allmusic Thom Jurel praised Eri Yamamoto's organic feeling for swing , her harmonic means anchored in post-bop , her poetry in the style of pop songwriters and a classic sense of discipline.

Discographic notes

  • Cobalt Blue (Thirsty Ear, 2006), with David Ambrosio, Ikuo Takeuchi
  • Duologue ( AUM Fidelity , 2008), with Daniel Carter, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Federico Ughi
  • Redwoods (AUM, 2008), with David Ambrosio, Ikuo Takeuchi
  • In Each Day, Something Good (AUM, 2009), with David Ambrosio, Ikou Takeuchi
  • Firefly (AUM; 2012), with David Ambrosio, Ikuo Takeuchi
  • The Next Page (AUM; 2012) dto.
  • Live (2016) dto.
  • Piano Solo: Live in Benicàssim (2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jazz in NYC This Week. Avant Music News, December 22, 2017, accessed December 22, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 20, 2017)
  3. ↑ Review of Thom Jurek's album The Next Page at Allmusic (English). Retrieved December 23, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Yamamoto, Eri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 山 本 江 利 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Osaka prefecture