{"product_id":"masabumi-kikuchi_hanamichi-the-final-studio-recording-vinyle-lp-masabumi-kikuchi_2022_uvm","title":"Hanamichi - The Final Studio Recording (Vinyle LP) \/ Masabumi Kikuchi","description":"Ramona by L. Wolfe Gilbert and Mabel Wayne - Summertime by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin - My Favorite Things by Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers - Improvisation by Masabumi Kikuchi - Little Abi by Masabumi Kikuchi\nA leading figure in Japanese jazz, who passed away on July 6, 2015, at the age of 75, this pianist had recorded a final solo session in New York. A handful of standards and improvisations of venomous, twilight beauty that offer the quintessence of his art, constantly haunted by silence.\nRevealed in the West in the 1970s by a series of trio albums with Gary Peacock, then based in Japan, as well as some prestigious collaborations (Gil Evans, Elvin Jones ...), Masabumi Kikuchi would develop over the next two decades an eclectic universe, both acoustic and electric, blending the influences of Miles Davis and Karlheinz Stockhausen as well as those of Duke Ellington, György Ligeti or Toru Takemitsu. (...) By largely focusing on reinterpreting standards (Ramona, Summertime, My Favorite Things), Kikuchi takes a certain distance from the free tonality of his final albums as a leader from the same period (\"Sunrise\" and \"Black Orpheus\", both on ECM).\nNevertheless, all the emblematic qualities of his elliptical style are found there, riddling the sound fabric with immensely dilated spaces. Nothing static, however, in these long and slow drifts in which the pianist seems to venture his improvisations, but a discourse always sustained and composed, masterfully staging the dynamic of emptiness to better offer silence its full eloquence. Stéphane Ollivier \/ Stéphane Ollivier – JazzMagazine May 2021","brand":"Masabumi Kikuchi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55315672957272,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/5391538080028.jpg?v=1760391671","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/masabumi-kikuchi_hanamichi-the-final-studio-recording-vinyle-lp-masabumi-kikuchi_2022_uvm","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}