Eri Yamamoto: piano
David Ambrosio: bass
Ikuo Takeuchi: drums
Editor's info:
Eri Yamamoto's growth as a jazz player and composer over the last 10 years is truly phenomenal. Having deeply impressed us (anew) last year, AUM Fidelity quickly recorded two albums with her in early 2008. The first was the exquisite Duologue, released in June, which featured her in duo with established masters of the music (William Parker, Hamid Drake, Daniel Carter). And now on Redwoods, with her regular working trio of longtime compatriots, bassist David Ambrosio and drummer Ikuo Takeuchi, Eri's distinctly invigorating approach to the jazz trio and remarkable gift for indelible melodies reaches yet another track-for-track high. When she is not busy touring the world with her own group and/or with William Parker, the Eri Yamamoto Trio performs every Thursday/Friday/Saturday at Arthur's Tavern, a/n historic jazz club in New York's Greenwich Village. If you're in town, mark it & make it. 'It will be akin to feeling/hearing/seeing a flower blooming in a dustbin,' if you do...
Hey too, here is a right fine and compelling YouTube video of Eri Yamamoto performing 'Bumpy Trail', also featured on Redwoods.
Redwoods is the very latest/greatest/up-to-datest work from the Eri Yamamoto Trio, E N J O Y ! -SJ