https://mirror2.jazzofjapan.com/tags/%E5%8E%9F%E6%BA%80%E7%AB%A0/ Recent content in 原満章 on Jazz of Japan | Brian McCrory Hugo en Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://mirror2.jazzofjapan.com/hitomi-nishiyama-trio-im-missing-you/ Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://mirror2.jazzofjapan.com/hitomi-nishiyama-trio-im-missing-you/ <p>Rewinding from the previous article on Hitomi Nishiyama’s <em><a href="https://www.jazzofjapan.com/archive/hitomi-nishiyama-echo">Echo</a></em> from 2024, and connecting the dots (re: <em><a href="https://www.jazzofjapan.com/archive/hitomi-nishiyama-dot">Dot</a></em>, 2023), relistening to Hitomi Nishiyama Trio’s <em>I’m Missing You</em> from 2004 provides a fascinating reflection.</p> <figure><a href="L1270278x-1200.jpeg"> <img loading="lazy" src="L1270278x-1200.jpeg"/> </a> </figure> <p><em>I’m Missing You</em> is the prolific composer’s first album, which quickly sold out as she was gaining recognition for her distinctive jazz piano compositional style, a novel approach that melded her Japanese classical musical training, studies in jazz piano, and her affection for European modern jazz. The original 2004 album contained eight songs, all composed by Nishiyama, and was re-released in 2007 with three bonus tracks from around the same period. It came to be regarded as her breakthrough first trio recording, released 20 years before her latest CD <em>Echo</em>, and with more than two dozen albums released in between.</p>