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Chihiro Yamanaka Trio, 'back in Paris'


Pianiste japonaise, chihiro est sortie avec les honneurs de son passage à la Berklee School. On l’avait déjà repéré en 2005 avec un premier album chez Verve avec une rythmique de premier plan avec Jeff “Tain” Watts et Bob Hurst, puis un deuxième avec la rythmique de Brad Melhdau. Véritable star au pays du soleil levant, elle se lance à l’assaut du vieux continent. Un vent de fraicheur et de sensibilité.
La revoici a Paris en trio. La voici donc a nouveau Europeene !



Le concert aura lieu le 23 Octobre a la maison de la culture du Japon a Paris a 20 heures

The Band :
  1. Chihiro Yamanaka ( piano)
  2. TBA (basse)
  3. TBA (drs)




Maison de la culture du Japon 101 Big Quai Branly 75740 Paris Cedex 15
Tarif: 15 euros, Reduit: 12 Euros, Adherents : 9 Euros
Tel: 0144379595

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Chihiro Yamanaka


Chihiro Yamanaka Since graduating with top honours from the Berklee College of Music, Japanese pianist Chihiro Yamanaka has been acclaimed as a most accomplished musician and composer with tremendous international potential. While at Berklee, in 2000, she received Down Beat’s Outstanding Performance Award and also won the Sisters In Jazz competition, organized by the International Association for Jazz Education. She has since won the HMV Award for the Best Jazz Album of 2004 and, in 2005, was voted Best New Artist in the poll of the Japanese jazz publication, Swing Journal. Chihiro Yamanaka began studying piano at the age of four and, when she was 12, won the Grand Prize at a new talent competition in Gunma, Japan. After studying at the Royal Academy of Music in England, she moved to the United States and continued her studies at Berklee. Chihiro has performed with some highly distinguished jazzmen since graduating, including Clark Terry, Gary Burton, George Russell, Curtis Fuller, Ed Thigpen, Nancy Wilson, George Benson and Herbie Hancock. She is currently resident pianist with the all-girl big band DIVA. She has performed at major venues in the United States, including the Kennedy Center in Washington and New York’s Carnegie Hall and has also played in the Vienna State Opera House, in the JVC Jazz Festival in New York, the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Idaho, the Tokyo Jazz Festival and the Umbria Jazz Festival. Her début album, Living Without Friday, with Ray Parker on bass and LaFrae Olivia Sci on drums, was released on the Japanese jazz piano label, Atelier Sawano, in October 2001 and achieved impressive sales. Her second Atelier Sawano CD, released in December 2002, was When October Goes, on which she was accompanied by Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums. This album made the No. 1 spot on the Japanese jazz chart. August 2003 saw the release of the DVD, Leaning Forward, recorded at a sell-out performance by Chihiro’s New York trio in the Phoenix Hall, Osaka in February of that year. The DVD made the top ten in the Japanese DVD chart. At the end of 2003, Chihiro again toured Japan with her New York Trio and drew packed houses everywhere. In February 2004 she recorded Madrigal for Atelier Sawano, with Larry Grenadier on bass and Rodney Green or Jeff Ballard on drums and her latest release, Outside By The Swing, recorded for Verve in May 2005, teams her with Robert Hurst on bass and Jeff “Tain” Watts on drums. George Russell has hailed Chihiro as “a very gifted and imaginative musician” and the Japanese magazine, Jazz Life, has described her as “one of the greatest talents in jazz for decades.” Now GKP is planning to present this remarkable artist on tour in Europe in February 2007.

Chez Chihiro



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