The Yoko Miwa Trio has had the pleasure of performing a special show at Scullers Jazz Club each autumn for several years. The album Live at Scullers Jazz Club was, true to its name, recorded at one of these shows, but each year’s performance is something new. A majority of the videos on the trio’s…
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Are you subscribed to the Yoko Miwa Trio’s Youtube channel? Half a dozen new videos from the November 2012 performance at Scullers Jazz Club went up this week. The videos include covers of artists from Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young to Thelonious Monk and McCoy Tyner as well as one of Yoko’s original compositions, Flood…
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In January, I reviewed the first episode of Ken Burns’s 2001 documentary JAZZ. Today, I continue with episode two, The Gift. One of the best anecdotes in the episode is the story of Louis Armstrong’s first record, made with King Oliver’s Band. Before microphones, musicians stood around a horn like the one on a phonograph to record.…
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