in April we will be featuring piano - bass duo as our next home concert. The pianist is Kosei Uchida, who was Helen Merrill's pianist, and the basist from Kosei's trio, Kiyoshi Mamura. The concert will be at 18:30, on Saturday 25th April, and tickets will cost ¥2,500 with all monies going to the musicians. They will perform two sets on Saturday evening of lyrical standard jazz. Our family are looking forward to this concert very much. I will post a link to a web page for the concert soon.
My daughter Hannah, then 5 years old, and I attended Kosei's trio concert in Fukuoka New Combo in December last year, when Hannah's mum was attending a bonenkai party. We drove through together in the afternoon, parked the car, shopped for some CDs and Xmas presents. We then went to New Combo, had some food and enjoyed two sets of excellent music before driving home at 10:30, whereupon Hannah fell into a satisfied sleep, safe in her child seat, wrapped in her favourite blanket. The previous concert we attended together was a Peter Brötzmann and Shoji Hanno concert at New Combo, which ia a concert of free improvisation that Hannah also very much enjoyed.
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