Layla Tomomi Sakai: Stolen Moments

Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Singer Layla Tomomi Sakai’s Stolen Moments is a 27-minute album from 2019, a follow-up to her two previous releases from 2016 and 2018 with a consistently pleasing and familiar core sound. That sound of Sakai, introduced on her debut album Whisper Not, is based on her intimate vocal/guitar/trumpet trio with Yuichiro Hiraoka on guitar and Ryuichi Takase on trumpet. Her second album The Island expanded the trio with more accompanying players, a pattern which continues here on Stolen Moments as her guest musicians create forms from duos to sextets on the different songs.

Trio Export 63.1.0.X: Small Pieces for Flying Padre

Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The album Small Pieces for Flying Padre from Trio Export 63.1.0.X is a special release of a live jazz recording at Kanmachi 63 in Yokohama, Japan. The piano-bass-drums trio performs the set live as recorded, bringing the listener into the music through the raw recorded sound of the room for an “as if you were there” experience. The ambience of music in an enclosed space performed right in front of your eyes is captured well and transmits the energy of musical drama unfolding in unexpected ways.

リンヘイテツ on Jazz of Japan | Brian McCrory

Layla Tomomi Sakai: Stolen Moments

Trio Export 63.1.0.X: Small Pieces for Flying Padre