Chihiro Yamanaka - Best 2005 - 2015 '2015

Tracks list

Tracklist:

Disc 1

1. Summer Wave (06:00)
2. Sing Sing Sing / Give Me A Break (06:48)
3. Quand Biron Voulut Danser (03:59)
4. Because (05:04)
5. Für Elise (04:42)
6. Yagibushi (06:01)
7. Here's That Rainy Day (05:20)
8. Slipped Disc (04:29)
9. Take Five (03:57)
10. Funiculi Funicula (06:28)
11. Maple Leaf Rag (03:37)
12. Friday Night At The Cadillac Club (04:22)
13. There Will Never Be Another You (05:35)
14. Don't Know Why (04:13)

Disc 2 

1. Carillon (09:07)
2. So Long (05:34)
3. Living Without Friday (06:19)
4. Rain, Rain And Rain (04:48)
5. Hanon Twist (04:53)
6. Drift Apart (04:09)
7. On The Shore (06:42)
8. One Step Up (04:14)
9. Orleans (04:31)
10. The Root Of The Light (05:40)
11. 2:30 Rag (02:31)
12. Insight Foresight (04:23)
13. B.G.(Bad Girl) (03:45)
14. G.B.(Good Boy) (03:38)
15. The Backstroke Dance (01:19)


 moreTemporarily returning to Japan, she began her recording career there in
2001 with Living Without Friday, the first of four annually released titles
issued by the Japanese label Atelier Sawano. Nonetheless, Yamanaka's long-player
gained notice immediately from critics and radio stations. Her 2002 follow-up,
When October Goes, hit the top rungs of the Japanese jazz charts, and word began
to spread among fans and critics across the Pacific back to America. Yamanaka
had reached the level where she could tour not only in her home country but also
Europe and select U.S. dates. During this time she was also a member of DIVA,
the all-female big band led by drummer Sherrie Maricle. Yamanaka also performed
with the DIVA spin-off quintet Five Play, who backed Marlene VerPlanck on her
2003 album It's How You Play the Game, all while continuing to tour and release
her own recordings.

In 2005 she signed a worldwide deal with Universal's Classics and Jazz division
and issued her North American debut with the trio effort Outside by the Swing,
recorded in New York City with drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts and bassist Robert
Hurst. Yamanaka immigrated to the States and issued the audio-video package Lach
Doch Mal in 2006 with Larry Grenadier and Jeff Ballard. While neither record
made the jazz charts in the States, they reached the Top Five in Japan and upped
the pianist's reputation to the degree that she became a global nomad, touring
in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. Arriving in 2007, Abyss was her first recording
to feature drummer Kendrick Scott and bassist Vicente Archer, who became her
working trio. She broke the trio mold with 2009's Runnin' Wild, where her piano
fronted a sextet. On 2010's Forever Begins, bassist Ben Williams replaced Archer
in her trio. The following year saw the release of Reminiscence, which placed a
live performance at the Iridium in New York with a studio album that featured
Yamanaka in three different trio settings. In 2012 Yamanaka released the first
of two tribute albums, Because, a loving nod to the Beatles on which she --
backed by a quartet -- played not only piano but synthesizer, organ, guitar,
ukulele, and harmonica. Because was followed by the standards releases After
Hours and After Hours 2. In 2013, she offered her tribute to classical music
with Molto Cantabile.

In 2014, Yamanaka moved from Verve to the Universal-owned Blue Note label just
in time for its 75th anniversary. Her debut, Somethin' Blue, was a sextet
offering, and in addition to originals offered striking renditions of Bud
Powell's "Un Poco Loco" and Herbie Hancock's "I Have a Dream." It reached into
the Top Five on the jazz charts. She followed it the same year with Syncopation
Hazard, her tribute to Scott Joplin. Yamanaka returned to the trio format for
2016's Blue Note-issued Guilty, which placed her original compositions alongside
select pieces by Hoagy Carmichael. Near the end of 2017, Yamanaka produced and
arranged Monk Studies. She played acoustic and electric piano, synth, and
Hammond B-3 organ in an almost exclusively Monk program backed by drummer
Deantoni Parks and bassist Mark Kelly. © Thom Jurek



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