Keiko Matsui - Full Moon & the Shrine
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Free Music Review: Great Smooth Jazz
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm an on-again-off-again jazz fan. I actually bought this CD as inspiration for a Japanese Exchange Student who want to investigate jazz piano. Sorry, she can listen to it but I'm keeping this one. Matsui san has captured what I will call both the soul of Japan and Jazz in her music. It brings to mind small caberets in the out of the way sectors of Tokyo that I visited many years ago. Her use of phrasing makes unique use of what painters call "white space" she knows how to blend sound and its absence into a dynamic whole. The selections also call to mind shrines and sacred places in Japan where I've encountered the Japanese portion of my own occidental spirit. She's really good. I'm going to be starting a Matsui Keiko collection.