What an honor it is to write about the highly talented and acclaimed, award-winning, and all around nice guy, Argentinian contemporary composer and pianist (and industrial designer!), Marco Sanguinetti, who I had the very lucky chance to become friends with during a recent tour he made to Japan. As fate would have it, I managed to book him for a speaking event, at which he also played, and really captured the audiences imagination with not only the performance of several solo compositions he graced us with, but also with a deep explanation to his conceptual approach to writing and playing […]
Tokyo Record Style
Takuma
I’m sitting here with Bob James and his 3-piece in my headphones as he’s tickling away the keys on the Fender Rhodes, an instrument I once owned but had to reluctantly bestow on local hero, Brian Haas of Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey fame. And as Im basking in Bob James’s supremely cool grooves, sampled the world over for hip-hop records, I’m thanking Takuma san, pictured here for re-introducing me to the American treasure of a pianist, arranger, and record producer, thinking to myself, “How are these young Japanese guy so tapped in?” as I remember how unrefined I was at […]