UOU
featuring: Kuriko Tsugawa, Yoshifumi
Nihonmatsu, Takuji Yamada, Daisuke Abe, Yoko Komori
DISCOGRAPHY l
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UoU�s debut album
Home
is comprised of ten impressive original compositions that fuse
elements of Japanese inspired melodies, along with American jazz
rhythms and harmonies.
This creates something truly special, honest and powerful. It had
been a long journey for all five talented young musicians and
composers from their start in Japan.
They first arrived in the U.S.A. to study at the Berklee
College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts during the late 1990�s and
early 2000�s. Upon
completion at Berklee, the members of UoU moved to New York City,
and individually began working with top artists on the scene
including: Aaron Parks,
Mark Turner, Gretchen Parlato, Walter Blanding, Rodney Green, Marcus
Printup, among many others, before they formed UoU in early 2008.
Having listened to the maturity, cohesiveness, and talent of UoU�s
debut album, we will definitely be hearing and seeing much more of
UoU in the future. They
have traveled long and far to learn how to play this American art
form authentically. Not
only have they succeeded in playing the jazz tradition, but they
have infused elements of their homeland to create something entirely
new and magnificent.
DISCOGRAPHY
HOME - UoU
TIP1107 Released October 5, 2010
"UoU�s debut album
Home
is comprised of ten impressive original compositions that
fuse elements of Japanese inspired melodies, along with American jazz
rhythms and
harmonies.
This creates something truly special,
honest and powerful." Pete Zimmer
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Takuji Yamada saxophones, bass clarinet
Daisuke Abe guitar
Yoko Komori piano
Kuriko Tsugawa bass
Yoshifumi Nihonmatsu drums
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