Riyoko's channel: youtube.com/@riyopiano website: riyoko.jp Happy holidays everyone! Please enjoy this upbeat and magical Riyoko's original composition from her 'The Piano Story' (2023) album in different flavors. 0:00 Rainbow Voyage themed improvisation - 25 November 2023 (UA-cam Live) 4:37 Rainbow Voyage saxophone duo version - 13 June 2023 (M Z E S Tokyo) - unique version 10:36 Rainbow Voyage trio version - 17 August 2023 (D-B o p Jazz Club) 16:25 Rainbow Voyage trio version - 18 August 2023 (D-B o p Jazz Club) 22:11 Rainbow Voyage trio version - 21 November 2023 (D-B o p Jazz Club) Other notable timestamps: 6:16 saxophone duo - Riyoko's ad-lib piano solo 7:20 saxophone duo - Takahiro Miyazaki's ad-lib saxophone solo 8:50 saxophone duo - finale 12:14 trio version - Riyoko's ad-lib piano solo (Riyoko is dancing while Hiroyuki is blasting) 14:40 trio version - finale (Riyoko is dancing while Hiroyuki is blasting) 18:01 trio version - Riyoko's ad-lib piano solo (Riyoko is dancing while Hiroyuki is blasting) 20:25 trio version - finale (Riyoko is dancing while Hiroyuki is blasting) 23:45 trio version - Riyoko's ad-lib piano solo (Riyoko is dancing while Hiroyuki is blasting) 26:09 trio version - finale (Riyoko is dancing while Hiroyuki is blasting) - my favorite finale right now 13 June 2023 (M Z E S Tokyo): Takahiro Miyazaki (saxophone, T-SQUARE) miyazaki-sax.com ua-cam.com/video/WVaMJmYOQN4/v-deo.html 17-18 August 2023 (D-B o p Jazz Club): Yosuke Inoue (bass, Spirit of Chick Corea band / Steve Gadd / Junko Onishi) youtube.com/@yosukeinouejazz, Hiroyuki Noritake (drums, T-SQUARE / Synchronized DNA / DIMENSION) 21 November 2023 (D-B o p Jazz Club): Yosuke Terao (bass), Hiroyuki Noritake (drums, T-SQUARE / Synchronized DNA / DIMENSION) I also urge everyone to check legendary Japanese Jazz-fusion band T-SQUARE: ua-cam.com/video/FZaUPGjjA4c/v-deo.html (T-SQUARE - 'Truth' - Masato Honda, legendary Japanese saxophonist, playing on EWI - Electronic Wind Instrument pioneered by Nyle Steiner and AKAI in 1970s-1980s) ua-cam.com/video/iffqQ_OhcRE/v-deo.html (T-SQUARE and Cassiopea [another legendary Japanese Jazz-fusion group] - 'Truth' - guitar-centric version - joint 25th anniversary show in early 2000s) ua-cam.com/video/Edc2yVHRHiQ/v-deo.html (T-SQUARE and Cassiopea - 'Fightman' - joint 25th anniversary show in early 2000s - Hirotaka Izumi's [RIP] intro piano improvisation and here's Riyoko honoring him playing his original piano composition - ua-cam.com/video/V-VCvwg3REY/v-deo.html) ua-cam.com/video/694ZYbSriQs/v-deo.html (T-SQUARE - 'Eurostar' - Hiroyuki Noritake's composition that Riyoko plays often to honor him - ua-cam.com/video/a2HxZHHRZHQ/v-deo.html) ua-cam.com/video/t0Xndcrf5AU/v-deo.html (Masato Honda and Takahiro Miyazaki dueling on saxophones, Hiroyuki Noritake on drums) - decades ago ua-cam.com/video/WVaMJmYOQN4/v-deo.html (Masato Honda and Takahiro Miyazaki dueling on saxophones, Hiroyuki Noritake on drums) - recently The first performance in this video is an unlisted video UA-cam Solo Live from 25 November 2023 on Riyoko's UA-cam channel. You can get there by going to her official website and following her official socials (Facebook, etc.) and checking her posts from around the date of the show. Alternatively, you can go to her UA-cam channel and check Community tab for the link to the show. The remaining 4 full performances from 2023 are in a 'R a i n b o w V o y a g e' playlist on my other channel youtube.com/@Riyo-Live dedicated to Riyoko's live activity: ua-cam.com/play/PLDmmxnLbBETgXS01FIMFJFuyhx2r14y41.html Riyoko is a world-class Japanese Jazz pianist and composer who isn't bound by a single genre or style and has crossed classical, traditional Japanese, pop, EDM, and anime genre boundaries and styles in her compositions, arrangements, and performances. She's a classically trained prodigy and has been playing piano since age 4 and for well over 3 decades, latter 2 of which she dedicated to Jazz. She's renowned for her musicality, deep harmonic understanding, live performances full of energy with fluent improvisations, and delicate touch on the keys. Together with her talent and charming character she continues to proliferate Jazz and attract many fans from all over the world. You can learn more about Riyoko and sample more of her music from playlists on my channel home. Riyoko doesn't really make short clips of her music and a lot of her music and performances are missing from her own channel due to Japanese copyright laws, where venues own all the rights to recordings on their premises. Because of that Riyoko can't freely share a lot of her music with us. But an artist like this should be shared with the world, so I'm making it rain on my channels.
Same here! She is also feeling much better and resumed performances, so that's a big relief. She got to take it easy, she's working too hard all year. We want her healthy, happy, and performing for many years to come.
Yep, Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett were Riyoko's first Jazz and improvisation influences when she was 17, she started to learn improvisation from their live albums. At that point she's already has been playing classical piano for nearly 15 years. She's got a classical DNA, Jazz blood type, but what makes it all come together is her artistic mind-set and personality. She's unique in many ways. You can check various playlists of samples on my channel home to see what I mean.
안녕하세요, 들러 주셔서 감사합니다. 전체 공개: 내 채널의 사람은 내가 아니라 Riyoko Takagi라는 유명한 일본 재즈 피아니스트입니다. 그녀의 UA-cam 채널은 youtube.com/@riyopiano 이지만 UA-cam에서 자주 활동하지 않으며 일본 저작권법으로 인해 그녀의 음악과 라이브 공연을 많이 공유할 수 없습니다. 그녀는 세계 정상급이지만 일본 밖에서는 거의 알려지지 않았습니다. 이런 아티스트는 세상과 공유되어야 한다고 생각합니다. 저는 Riyoko를 전 세계와 공유하고 있으며 그녀의 이름, UA-cam 핸들 및 웹사이트를 포함한 모든 비디오에 완전한 크레딧을 제공하고 있습니다. 저는 Riyoko의 열렬한 팬이며 그녀에게 영감을 받았습니다. 그것이 내가 2023년 초에 그녀를 발견했을 때 그녀를 위해 이 일을 하는 사람이 없었기 때문에 내가 이 일을 하기로 결심한 이유 중 하나입니다. 피아노로 다양한 작품을 연주하시는 것 같은데요. 나는 또한 당신의 채널을 구독하고 지원하는 데 도움을 줄 수 있습니다.
Riyoko's channel: youtube.com/@riyopiano website: riyoko.jp
Happy holidays everyone! Please enjoy this upbeat and magical Riyoko's original composition from her 'The Piano Story' (2023) album in different flavors.
0:00 Rainbow Voyage themed improvisation - 25 November 2023 (UA-cam Live)
4:37 Rainbow Voyage saxophone duo version - 13 June 2023 (M Z E S Tokyo) - unique version
10:36 Rainbow Voyage trio version - 17 August 2023 (D-B o p Jazz Club)
16:25 Rainbow Voyage trio version - 18 August 2023 (D-B o p Jazz Club)
22:11 Rainbow Voyage trio version - 21 November 2023 (D-B o p Jazz Club)
Other notable timestamps:
6:16 saxophone duo - Riyoko's ad-lib piano solo
7:20 saxophone duo - Takahiro Miyazaki's ad-lib saxophone solo
8:50 saxophone duo - finale
12:14 trio version - Riyoko's ad-lib piano solo (Riyoko is dancing while Hiroyuki is blasting)
14:40 trio version - finale (Riyoko is dancing while Hiroyuki is blasting)
18:01 trio version - Riyoko's ad-lib piano solo (Riyoko is dancing while Hiroyuki is blasting)
20:25 trio version - finale (Riyoko is dancing while Hiroyuki is blasting)
23:45 trio version - Riyoko's ad-lib piano solo (Riyoko is dancing while Hiroyuki is blasting)
26:09 trio version - finale (Riyoko is dancing while Hiroyuki is blasting) - my favorite finale right now
13 June 2023 (M Z E S Tokyo): Takahiro Miyazaki (saxophone, T-SQUARE) miyazaki-sax.com ua-cam.com/video/WVaMJmYOQN4/v-deo.html
17-18 August 2023 (D-B o p Jazz Club): Yosuke Inoue (bass, Spirit of Chick Corea band / Steve Gadd / Junko Onishi) youtube.com/@yosukeinouejazz, Hiroyuki Noritake (drums, T-SQUARE / Synchronized DNA / DIMENSION)
21 November 2023 (D-B o p Jazz Club): Yosuke Terao (bass), Hiroyuki Noritake (drums, T-SQUARE / Synchronized DNA / DIMENSION)
I also urge everyone to check legendary Japanese Jazz-fusion band T-SQUARE:
ua-cam.com/video/FZaUPGjjA4c/v-deo.html (T-SQUARE - 'Truth' - Masato Honda, legendary Japanese saxophonist, playing on EWI - Electronic Wind Instrument pioneered by Nyle Steiner and AKAI in 1970s-1980s)
ua-cam.com/video/iffqQ_OhcRE/v-deo.html (T-SQUARE and Cassiopea [another legendary Japanese Jazz-fusion group] - 'Truth' - guitar-centric version - joint 25th anniversary show in early 2000s)
ua-cam.com/video/Edc2yVHRHiQ/v-deo.html (T-SQUARE and Cassiopea - 'Fightman' - joint 25th anniversary show in early 2000s - Hirotaka Izumi's [RIP] intro piano improvisation and here's Riyoko honoring him playing his original piano composition - ua-cam.com/video/V-VCvwg3REY/v-deo.html)
ua-cam.com/video/694ZYbSriQs/v-deo.html (T-SQUARE - 'Eurostar' - Hiroyuki Noritake's composition that Riyoko plays often to honor him - ua-cam.com/video/a2HxZHHRZHQ/v-deo.html)
ua-cam.com/video/t0Xndcrf5AU/v-deo.html (Masato Honda and Takahiro Miyazaki dueling on saxophones, Hiroyuki Noritake on drums) - decades ago
ua-cam.com/video/WVaMJmYOQN4/v-deo.html (Masato Honda and Takahiro Miyazaki dueling on saxophones, Hiroyuki Noritake on drums) - recently
The first performance in this video is an unlisted video UA-cam Solo Live from 25 November 2023 on Riyoko's UA-cam channel. You can get there by going to her official website and following her official socials (Facebook, etc.) and checking her posts from around the date of the show. Alternatively, you can go to her UA-cam channel and check Community tab for the link to the show.
The remaining 4 full performances from 2023 are in a 'R a i n b o w V o y a g e' playlist on my other channel youtube.com/@Riyo-Live dedicated to Riyoko's live activity: ua-cam.com/play/PLDmmxnLbBETgXS01FIMFJFuyhx2r14y41.html
Riyoko is a world-class Japanese Jazz pianist and composer who isn't bound by a single genre or style and has crossed classical, traditional Japanese, pop, EDM, and anime genre boundaries and styles in her compositions, arrangements, and performances. She's a classically trained prodigy and has been playing piano since age 4 and for well over 3 decades, latter 2 of which she dedicated to Jazz. She's renowned for her musicality, deep harmonic understanding, live performances full of energy with fluent improvisations, and delicate touch on the keys. Together with her talent and charming character she continues to proliferate Jazz and attract many fans from all over the world.
You can learn more about Riyoko and sample more of her music from playlists on my channel home. Riyoko doesn't really make short clips of her music and a lot of her music and performances are missing from her own channel due to Japanese copyright laws, where venues own all the rights to recordings on their premises. Because of that Riyoko can't freely share a lot of her music with us. But an artist like this should be shared with the world, so I'm making it rain on my channels.
I am in a very happy place when I listen to Riyoko. ☺☺☺
Same here! She is also feeling much better and resumed performances, so that's a big relief. She got to take it easy, she's working too hard all year. We want her healthy, happy, and performing for many years to come.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!🎉
Stunning ❤
Thank you.
Enjoy! And happy holidays.
So Beautiful🎄🌠
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Excellent 🎁 🙏🏻
Absolutely beautiful, am i hearing some Bill Evans influence here...
Yep, Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett were Riyoko's first Jazz and improvisation influences when she was 17, she started to learn improvisation from their live albums. At that point she's already has been playing classical piano for nearly 15 years. She's got a classical DNA, Jazz blood type, but what makes it all come together is her artistic mind-set and personality. She's unique in many ways. You can check various playlists of samples on my channel home to see what I mean.
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I enjoyed the video you're the best l want to have a good relationship so l m going there 🎁
안녕하세요, 들러 주셔서 감사합니다. 전체 공개: 내 채널의 사람은 내가 아니라 Riyoko Takagi라는 유명한 일본 재즈 피아니스트입니다. 그녀의 UA-cam 채널은 youtube.com/@riyopiano 이지만 UA-cam에서 자주 활동하지 않으며 일본 저작권법으로 인해 그녀의 음악과 라이브 공연을 많이 공유할 수 없습니다. 그녀는 세계 정상급이지만 일본 밖에서는 거의 알려지지 않았습니다. 이런 아티스트는 세상과 공유되어야 한다고 생각합니다. 저는 Riyoko를 전 세계와 공유하고 있으며 그녀의 이름, UA-cam 핸들 및 웹사이트를 포함한 모든 비디오에 완전한 크레딧을 제공하고 있습니다. 저는 Riyoko의 열렬한 팬이며 그녀에게 영감을 받았습니다. 그것이 내가 2023년 초에 그녀를 발견했을 때 그녀를 위해 이 일을 하는 사람이 없었기 때문에 내가 이 일을 하기로 결심한 이유 중 하나입니다. 피아노로 다양한 작품을 연주하시는 것 같은데요. 나는 또한 당신의 채널을 구독하고 지원하는 데 도움을 줄 수 있습니다.