Ryo Fukui - My Favorite Tune '1994

Tracks list

Ryo Fukui (福居良 Fukui Ryo, June 1, 1948 – March 15, 2016)
was a Japanese jazz pianist based in Sapporo. He played regularly at the
Slowboat jazz club in Sapporo of which he and his wife Yasuko were the owners.
He began to teach himself the piano in 1970 at the age of 22, releasing his
first album, Scenery, six years later and his second album, Mellow Dream, the
year after. He continued improving his skills over the following years in live
performance, often appearing in a trio and playing at the Shinjuku Pit Inn,
Kichijōji Sometime jazz club and the Jazz Inn Lovely in Nagoya. A third
album, My Favorite Tune, which was recorded in 1994 and was released in 1995,
and has fallen into rarity, with only a few CD copies of the album known in
existence. It was followed by In New York four years later, in trio with the
drummer Leroy Williams and the bassist Lisle Arthur Atkinson. A Letter from
Slowboat is a live album released in 2015 from his time at the Slowboat jazz
club.

Tracks:

01. Voyage (Fukui) - 3:34
02. Scenery (Fukui) - 3:55
03. Mellow Dream (Fukui) - 10:13
04. Nobody Knows the Trouble Ive Seen (Trad.) - 5:40
05. Nobodys (Harris) - 3:40
06. My Conception (Clark) - 3:51
07. After Hours (Parrish) - 7:46
08. Nord (Fukui) - 4:56

Personnel:

Ryo Fukui - Hamburg Steinway piano

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