https://mirror2.jazzofjapan.com/tags/tatsuya-hashimoto/ Recent content in Tatsuya Hashimoto on Jazz of Japan | Brian McCrory Hugo en Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mirror2.jazzofjapan.com/yukari-sekiya-trio-with-yuko-tanaka-its-ordinary-love-and/ Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mirror2.jazzofjapan.com/yukari-sekiya-trio-with-yuko-tanaka-its-ordinary-love-and/ <p>Yukari Sekiya (Sekichu) is a jazz pianist, composer, and free improvisationalist who released her first album in 2011 with the group Yukari Sekiya Trio with Yuko Tanaka. The Japanese title of this debut is <em>ありふれた愛なので・・・</em> translated on the cover as <em>It’s Ordinary Love And&hellip;</em> Sekiya’s trio is completed by Michihiro Morisada on contrabass and Tatsuya Hashimoto on drums, and Yuko Tanaka joins as guest vocals and voice.</p> <figure><a href="L1340831x-1200.jpeg"> <img loading="lazy" src="L1340831x-1200.jpeg"/> </a> </figure> <p>This album is a live recording of seven of Sekiya’s original compositions, performed on one night in December 2010 at the jazz club Big Apple in Kobe. The four musicians all embrace spontaneous, simultaneous creation, and Sekiya’s music is wide open for creativity. Bounding several free jazz sections are the pianist’s composed musical themes and thoughts, written down on the page as clear melodies, structures, accents, and band signals that are coordinated parts of Sekiya’s musical design. At the same time, whole sections of several pieces are set free to allow the musicians to stretch out together. In those sections, the four members improvise freely but together as a group, reaching towards one musical mind, and building to wild crests of sound or subtle unified soundscapes as feelings and the moment dictate.</p>