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Dégustation à Jazz
Last night, my friend Miwa and I went to see Kikuchi Naruyoshi Quintet Live Dub feat. Kahimi Karie at an event called Dégustation à Jazz, held at Unit in Daikanyama.
DJing was United Future Organization's Raphael Sebbag, who did a great jazzy set.
The show was, as its name implies, jazz, led by Kikuchi-san on the saxophone. Other members of the quintet were Tzboguchi Masayasu (piano, sampler), Kikuchi Masaaki (acoustic bass), Fujii Nobuo (drums) and Pardon Kimura ("live dub"/off-stage electronics).
I was quite impressed with Kikuchi Naruyoshi's performance. Although I had seen him play improvised jazz in Bangkok, it's this show that proved to me that he's really a talented musician, not just a pop songwriter and lip-sync'er as it's the case with his unit Spank Happy (which I also like).
All musicians were truly great. I especially enjoyed Kikuchi Masaaki's bass playing. Pardon Kimura, who was hidden behind the audience, applied effects to the others' instruments, sometimes making Kikuchi [Naruyoshi]-san's saxophone sound like there were five of them.
Kahimi was beautiful as always, and sang 5 songs, including two of her own: "Kinski" (from "Trapeziste") and "Pancartes" (from "Montage").
Other songs sung were "Samba de couleurs" (「色彩のサンバ」) in duet with Kikuchi-san (from his album "Dégustation à Jazz") and Billie Holiday's "Crazy He Calls Me".
[Blurry] picture (from left to right): Tzboguchi Masayasu, Kahimi Karie, Kikuchi Masaaki, Kikuchi Naruyoshi and Fujii Nobuo.
Posted on November 4, 2004 at 13:52 | Tweet
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