https://mirror2.jazzofjapan.com/tags/%E4%BD%90%E8%97%A4%E6%BD%A4%E4%B8%80/ Recent content in 佐藤潤一 on Jazz of Japan | Brian McCrory Hugo en Sun, 09 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://mirror2.jazzofjapan.com/miyuki-moriya-beyond-the-sea/ Sun, 09 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://mirror2.jazzofjapan.com/miyuki-moriya-beyond-the-sea/ <p><em>Beyond the Sea</em> is saxophonist Miyuki Moriya’s fourth album as a leader, which she released in 2024 with her regular quartet of Mamoru Ishida (piano), Junichi Sato (bass), and Sohnosuke Imaizumi (drums). This album contains nine tracks over sixty-eight minutes and features mostly originals from the saxophonist, with two specially selected cover songs from Japanese jazz musicians that influenced her most in her jazz life.</p> <figure><a href="L1260162x-1200.jpeg"> <img loading="lazy" src="L1260162x-1200.jpeg"/> </a> </figure> <p>One of those personal heroes is saxophonist Kosuke Mine, who joins the group as a special guest and adds his engagingly vibrant tenor sax sound on five of the nine tracks. Those include two of the album’s peaks for excitement (the edge-of-your-seat #2 “Flip a Coin” and the funkily thrillseeking #5 “Maverick”) as well as Mine’s introspective ballad #7 “After the Checkout” where the two saxes converse over melancholy piano chords to set a dramatic scene.</p>