https://mirror2.jazzofjapan.com/tags/%E4%B8%AD%E8%B7%AF%E8%8B%B1%E6%98%8E/ Recent content in 中路英明 on Jazz of Japan | Brian McCrory Hugo en Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://mirror2.jazzofjapan.com/layla-tomomi-sakai-stolen-moments/ Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://mirror2.jazzofjapan.com/layla-tomomi-sakai-stolen-moments/ <p>Singer Layla Tomomi Sakai’s <em>Stolen Moments</em> 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 <em><a href="https://www.jazzofjapan.com/archive/layla-tomomi-sakai-whisper-not">Whisper Not</a></em>, is based on her intimate vocal/guitar/trumpet trio with Yuichiro Hiraoka on guitar and Ryuichi Takase on trumpet. Her second album <em><a href="https://www.jazzofjapan.com/archive/layla-tomomi-sakai-island">The Island</a></em> expanded the trio with more accompanying players, a pattern which continues here on <em>Stolen Moments</em> as her guest musicians create forms from duos to sextets on the different songs.</p>