Boulou & Elios Ferre rencontrent Yoshiko Kishino et Daiki Yasukagawa

Voici un moment inedit !
La musique de Boulou&Elios a emu la pianiste Japonaise Yoshiko Kishino(UNIVERSAL), qui comme Boulou&Elios, a su trouver un d'equilibre entre le Jazz et la musique dite classique, et en particulier de JS Bach. Boulou a travailler longtemps avec le pianiste/compositeur/arrangeur Takashi Kako dans les annees 70/80's en France. Ils avaient alors cree ensemble un 10tet qui a anime la scene du Jazz Francais pendant 2.5 ans et enregistre ensemble. Ainsi Boulou est deja accoutume a la culture Japonaise. Yoshiko Kishino, passionee par l'Europe, a enregistre un disque a Prague, et a enregistre le repertoire classique des compositeurs du debut du 20ieme siecle ( Satie, Debussy,Ravel,..) Ainsi toutes les cartes sont entre les mains de Boulou&Elios, Yoshiko pour que l'alchimie se produise. Ils se produiront en quartet avec le grand contrebassise Daiki Yasukagawa.
Cette rencontre aura lieu dans la cadre du festival de Jazz de Ginza a Tokyo et donnera l'occasion au groupe de se produire 2 fois, tout en laissant la possibilite a Boulou&Elios de devoiler leur culture musicale aussi par deux fois en duo. Ainsi les occasions et les contextes seront multiples. Le festival se terminera par une soiree de cloture conviant tous les artistes. Une occasion revee pour Boulou&Elios Ferre de communier avec la communaute du Jazz Japonaise.
C'est dans la cadre du festival de Jazz de Ginza que les deux guitaristes, la pianiste et le contrabassiste pourront dialoguer.
L'occasion leut est donner de s'illustrer dans ce contexte par deux fois.

Yoshiko Kishino (piano)
Boulou Ferre (guitare)
Elios Ferre ( guitare)
Daiki Yasukagawa(basse)

A decouvrir donc absolument par nos amis Francais residents au Japon et nos amis Japonais.

Une premiere rencontre aura lieu le 03/11/2007 au CHANEL Nexus Hall/Ginza 2 chome/Tokyo a 13:00-14:20
Une deuxieme rencontre aura lieu le 04/11/2007 au Matsuzakaya Rooftop/Ginza 6 chome/Tokyo a 14:30-15:40

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Yoshiko Kishino

YOSHIKO KISHINO pianist, composer and arranger Born in Tokyo, Yoshiko Kishino had started playing the piano when she was three, following her parents' advice. Even then, she outshined others in having perfect pitch, and she could turn all the music she heard into music sheets in her mind, surprising those who were around her. Surrounded by and raised in her family of music lovers, she had been awakened to band-activities, so she put together a band copying the Beatles after she had entered junior high school while studying classical music. She had seen eyes on the hit-tunes on the radio, and had joined in various bands when she was in high school, very much actively played in a number of school festivals. So, she had spent such impressive youth as a band-girl ("rock-girlie" by her own words).
Then she went on to study classical music seriously, as she entered Toho Gakuen School of Music majoring in music. During her school years there, she also continued with her band activities that had shifted from playing rock to contemporary jazz/fusion, inspired by the music world-widely popular musicians, such as Lee Ritenour (guitarist), and Sadao Watanabe (saxophonist). She was awarded twice as the "Best Keyboardist" at Yamaha's popular music contest which is a prestigious gateway to success for the amateur musicians, broadening her horizons through pop music.
Soon after graduation, she formed her own group and while performing shows, she concentrated on brushing up her song writing and arranging skills. Thorough her stage performing experiences, she came to realize the importance of "ad-lib" and her interest in Jazz rapidly enhanced. Looking back to those days, she confesses that her idol of that time was Oscar Peterson. In 1987, she had done a motion picture soundtrack for the Shochiku Movie "Hoshizora no mukou no kuni" and it was well received.
It was one of her best opportunities to prove her skills in composing and arranging. After that, she went on to seek for her new direction in jazz, and started to perform as a jazz pianist. With her shows based in Tokyo, she quickly became a friend with famous jazz players who are filled with the originality, such as Akira Sakata. In 1992, she joined the tour of the Middle East with Takio Itoh's group, which plays Minyo (Japanese traditional music). She played together with many artists all through the year. It was another opportunity of her to broaden her career.
Her inclination toward Jazz deepened through the study of Bill Evance, and that is well reflected in her composition and arrangement, as well as in her performance.
In 1995, she recorded her debut album "Fairly Tale" in New York as a first Japanese female artist for GRP Records. This is well appreciated both domestically and internationally, as the secure first step took by a "hot" new artist.
In 1996, she recorded her 2nd album, again in New York. It was released in June that year, it entered in the hit chart of Swing Journal magazine and Ori-Con magazine (industry paper). In the same year she came to appear regularly in TV program called "Meikyoku Monogatari", broadcasted by TV Osaka and TVK.
In 1997, inviting Philippe Saisse as the producer, she recorded her 3rd album, third time in New York. "Rendez Vous", the 3rd album into which she aggressively adopted the Digital sound source, etc., with the intention for the drastic expansion of her sound identity.
In December 1998, she experienced the first domestic recording.
In Spring 1999, she released her 4th album titled "You Are So Beautiful", which was filled with the broad selection of Jazz standard in both CD and LP. This particular album became one of the best selling Jazz CD of 1999 in Japan. In November, she released her first Christmas album "My Little Christmas". Also in this year, she performed "Panasonic Jazz Festival" in New York with own trio.
Yoshiko's first Los Angeles recording was done in May 2000 supported by the great master of engineering, Don Murray as the engineer. In June 2000, she had her first tour in Taiwan, performing in Taipei and Gao Shung, which are were all highly praised. Her first orchestration album "Tenderness" which she recorded in Los Angeles was released in September 2000. Followed by a tour in October. This album established her firm valuation and popularity as a jazz pianist of new era. And also the first DVD "Tenderness" which is performed the concert at Akasaka Blitz was released.
In 2002, she released a long-awaited album after 2 years since last-hit "Tenderness", her 8th. album "SIESTA" is included the most popular Bossa Nova numbers could be called "Brazilian Elegance". "SIESTA" was done in New York and Tokyo with well-known artists who are Marc Johnson, Romero Lubambo, Danny Gottlieb and especially Emiko Shiratori sings Corcovado and Siesta by Yoshiko Kishino as a guest vocalist. And in thsi year she has joined the new album of Orange Pekoe, also took part in the soundtrack of the movie "Inochi" (the film starring Makiko Esumi and Etsushi Toyokawa), still broadening the field of her activities. Also included the tittled "Red Note" was written for Panasonic TV-CM by herself.
In 2003, her best selected album "PORTRAIT" was released on March. And this year as she made 43 days concerts and live-performance with own group in a year. On Nov. of this year she recorded for new album for 2004 in Prague with genius bassist George Mraz from Prague and drummer Pavel Zboril in Prague and strings in Prague also. Especially she made all strings arrangements with famous Prague string players.
In 2004, New album "PRAHA" which was recorded in Prague was released on 24 March finally. And in this year she performed for Bali International Jazz Festival in Bali, Indonesia and for EBS-TV of Korea was the first visit for Korea.
In 2005, the two albums was released at same time on the 10th debut anniversary in 2005 was titled "HEARTSCAPE" for original songs and "TIMESCAPE" for standards songs. These the two albums was awarded a prize of Gold Disc for Swing Journal magazine. And she performed Nocturne of Chopin for Panasonic TV-CM and with this as a start, on July her first classic albums "NOCTURNE" was released.
In 2006, a bossa nova album is titled "Bossa Nostalgia" was released on May. And on June she wrote songs for the movie "Nihon No Jitensha Dorobo" and this movie is going to enter for VENEZIA MOVIE FESTIVAL.
At present she plays with her trio, bossa nova unit "Brazilian Unit", classical solo and trio with strings as a new style.
Chez Yoshiko

Boulou Ferre

D'origine tsigane, Boulou Ferré est né le 24 avril 1951 à Paris. Fils de Matelo Ferré, neveu de Baro Ferré – qui l'un et l'autre s'illustrèrent au sein du fameux quintette du Hot Club de France avec Django Reinhardt et Stéphane Grappelli – , Boulou commence la guitare jazz avec son père dès l'âge de six ans. Il étudie, en parallèle, la guitare classique avec Francisco Gil et donne son premier concert à l'âge de 8 ans, au Musée Guimet. A 12 ans, il accompagne le chanteur Jean Ferrat et enregistre son premier disque chez Barclay. Un an plus tard, en 1964, il participe au Festival d'Antibes, où il joue en première partie de John Coltrane. Son troisième disque pour Barclay, un hommage à Charlie Parker et Dizzy Gillespie, avec les Paris All Stars (où l'on retrouve des musiciens tels que Pierre Michelot, Eddy Louiss, Kenny Clarke, Maurice Vander…), obtient quatre étoiles dans le magazine américain Down Beat. Il se produit alors plusieurs fois à l'Olympia, avec le grand orchestre de François Rauber. Parallèlement à ses expériences dans le jazz et l'improvisation, qui l'amèneront à côtoyer des musiciens aussi divers que Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke, Philly Joe Jones, Warne Marsh, Chet Baker, Stéphane Grappelli, Svend Asmussen, Louis Vola …, Boulou étudie l'harmonie et la composition avec Olivier Messiaen. Au début des années 70, il apparaît aux côtés du vibraphoniste et multi-instrumentiste Gunter Hampel, puis avec Steve Potts, en compagnie de Christian Escoudé et du pianiste japonais Takashi Kako, avec lequel il fonde, en 1974, son Corporation Gypsy Orchestra, remarqué par Carlos Santana et Frank Zappa, entre autres. A partir de 1978, il forme un duo avec son frère Elios, et enregistre une série d'albums sur le label Steeplechase. Le succès de la formule est tel que les frères se produiront lors de nombreuses tournées (en France, en Espagne, en Angleterre, en Italie, au Portugal, au Canada, aux Etats-Unis, en Amérique du Sud, au Danemark, en Allemagne, en Afrique de l'Est, en Australie, en Asie), ainsi que dans les plus grands festivals (Nice, Antibes, Printemps de Bourges, Montréal, Québec, Chicago, Carrefour Mondial de la Guitare de la Martinique, Edimbourg, Séville, Caracas, Mexico, Florence, Oslo…). Au milieu des années 80, Boulou participe à la création du Trio Gitan, avec Christian Escoudé et Babik Reinhardt. En 1992, on retrouve les frères au sein d'un mini big band réunissant Al Levitt, Gilbert Rovère, Lionel et Stéphane Belmondo. En 1996, le duo est une nouvelle fois à l'affiche du festival Django Reinhardt de Samois-sur-Seine. Dès la fin des années 90, naît l'idée d'un projet à trois instruments harmoniques, avec le pianiste Michel Graillier, puis avec Alain Jean-Marie. Intersection, enregistré à l'automne 2001, marque le début de cette collaboration. Le trio se produit au festival Django Reinhardt de New-York, puis au Carrefour Mondial de la Guitare de la Martinique. En 2002-2003, le concept s'élargit à une formule en quartet, avec Alain Jean-Marie et Gilles Naturel (The Rainbow of Life). La rencontre du contrebassiste Riccardo Del Fra, ex-compagnon de Chet Baker, conduit à l'enregistrement d'un nouvel album en 2004 (Shades of a Dream).

Chez Boulou&Elios

Elios Ferre

D'origine tsigane, Elios Ferré est né à Paris, le 18 décembre 1956. Il commence la guitare jazz avec son père, à l'âge de 6 ans, et travaille simultanément la guitare flamenca avec Francisco Gil. Il étudie ensuite l'harmonie et la composition avec Pierre Lantier (Prix de Rome), et participe à de nombreuses expériences musicales, parmi lesquelles celle du Gypsy Corporation Orchestra, au début des années 70. Il rencontre notamment Larry Coryell, Ed Thigpen, Al Levitt, Svend Asmussen, Louis Vola, Raymond Le Sénéchal …, élabore des génériques pour la télévision, ainsi que des musiques pour le cinéma. Associé à son frère Boulou depuis 1978, il ne se contente pas d'être un accompagnateur et un rythmicien hors pair, au style inimitable, mais s'illustre également par ses talents d'improvisateur et de compositeur (Gypsy Dreams, The Rainbow of Life), tout en se révélant un brillant interprète des valses, spécialement celles de son oncle Baro (Panique, La Folle).

Chez Boulou&Elios

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