https://mirror2.jazzofjapan.com/tags/harutoshi-ito/ Recent content in Harutoshi Ito on Jazz of Japan | Brian McCrory Hugo en Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://mirror2.jazzofjapan.com/koichi-sato-melancholy-of-a-journey/ Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://mirror2.jazzofjapan.com/koichi-sato-melancholy-of-a-journey/ <p>Pianist and composer Koichi Sato’s 2016 release <em>Melancholy of a Journey</em> features a distinctive jazz sextet: a piano trio adding clarinet and guitar for modern groundedness and cello providing graceful maturity.</p> <figure><a href="L1180495-1024.jpg"> <img loading="lazy" src="L1180495-1024.jpg"/> </a> </figure> <p>Sato conceived the main theme while traveling in Norway and viewing a certain painting. The work of art, Art Rolfsen’s “The Big Station”, graces the cover and inspired “The Railway Station”, a four-part suite arranged over four tracks. This music emerges and recedes through tracks #1, 6, 9, and 12, resulting in four distinct songs with common echoes.</p>