Riyoko's channel: youtube.com/@riyopiano website: riyoko.jp Here Riyoko is performing live 'Rainbow Seeker' by Joe Sample. Riyoko said that at this show she's feeling adventurous and playing a bunch of songs that she hasn't played before. This show was right at the time she won an award for her 2nd 2023 album 'Midnight in Blue' ruclips.net/video/_h95LmlVW7Y/видео.html (award ceremony clip), so it was during a hectic time in her schedule, where she had to rush back to Tokyo from the provincial segment of her tour for an award ceremony and then rush back to continue the tour. She said that surprising award and recognition serves as encouragement. This performance was recorded on 11 March 2024 at D-Bop Jazz Club (copyright holder, I don't own any rights to this recording). You can follow Riyoko live with me here youtube.com/@Riyo-Live Riyoko has prepared about a dozen of wonderful originals for 2023 ruclips.net/video/PJdCXuHUVbg/видео.html (Riyoko's live 2023 originals compilation) and here's 2 hours of beautiful improvised piano by Riyoko: ruclips.net/video/q4XHwaUuqeU/видео.html to enjoy. Riyoko is an amazing live artist and even though I prefer live versions of nearly everything Riyoko has recorded on the albums, I still own all of Riyoko's discography going back to 2009 and urge everyone to grab Riyoko's albums to help support this magnificent independent artist. Where to buy Riyoko's albums: www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/discography/riyoko-takagi where I maintain BUY links Alternatively, you can use some eBayer that deals with Japanese exports, my go to is www.ebay.com/str/keyprojectjapan Riyoko is a world-class Japanese Jazz pianist and composer who isn't bound by a single genre or style and has crossed classical, traditional Japanese, pop, EDM, and anime genre boundaries and styles in her compositions, arrangements, and performances. She's a classically trained prodigy and has been playing piano since age 4 and for well over 3 decades, latter 2 of which she dedicated to Jazz. She's renowned for her musicality, deep harmonic understanding, live performances full of energy with fluent improvisations, and delicate touch on the keys. Together with her talent and charming character she continues to proliferate Jazz and attract many fans from all over the world. You can learn more about Riyoko and sample more of her music from playlists on my channel home. Riyoko doesn't really make short clips of her music and a lot of her music and performances are missing from her own channel due to Japanese copyright laws, where venues own all the rights to recordings on their premises. Because of that Riyoko can't freely share a lot of her music with us. But an artist like this should be shared with the world, so I'm making it rain on my channels.
It's a super fun tune indeed and seems like it's very underrated, here's the original: ruclips.net/video/QzNVBuKPKdI/видео.html and there isn't much else except the album version. I really love Riyoko's ad-lib solos here, she really puts spotlight on this piece and makes it shine.
Riyoko's channel: youtube.com/@riyopiano website: riyoko.jp
Here Riyoko is performing live 'Rainbow Seeker' by Joe Sample. Riyoko said that at this show she's feeling adventurous and playing a bunch of songs that she hasn't played before. This show was right at the time she won an award for her 2nd 2023 album 'Midnight in Blue' ruclips.net/video/_h95LmlVW7Y/видео.html (award ceremony clip), so it was during a hectic time in her schedule, where she had to rush back to Tokyo from the provincial segment of her tour for an award ceremony and then rush back to continue the tour. She said that surprising award and recognition serves as encouragement. This performance was recorded on 11 March 2024 at D-Bop Jazz Club (copyright holder, I don't own any rights to this recording). You can follow Riyoko live with me here youtube.com/@Riyo-Live
Riyoko has prepared about a dozen of wonderful originals for 2023 ruclips.net/video/PJdCXuHUVbg/видео.html (Riyoko's live 2023 originals compilation) and here's 2 hours of beautiful improvised piano by Riyoko: ruclips.net/video/q4XHwaUuqeU/видео.html to enjoy. Riyoko is an amazing live artist and even though I prefer live versions of nearly everything Riyoko has recorded on the albums, I still own all of Riyoko's discography going back to 2009 and urge everyone to grab Riyoko's albums to help support this magnificent independent artist.
Where to buy Riyoko's albums:
www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/discography/riyoko-takagi where I maintain BUY links
Alternatively, you can use some eBayer that deals with Japanese exports, my go to is www.ebay.com/str/keyprojectjapan
Riyoko is a world-class Japanese Jazz pianist and composer who isn't bound by a single genre or style and has crossed classical, traditional Japanese, pop, EDM, and anime genre boundaries and styles in her compositions, arrangements, and performances. She's a classically trained prodigy and has been playing piano since age 4 and for well over 3 decades, latter 2 of which she dedicated to Jazz. She's renowned for her musicality, deep harmonic understanding, live performances full of energy with fluent improvisations, and delicate touch on the keys. Together with her talent and charming character she continues to proliferate Jazz and attract many fans from all over the world.
You can learn more about Riyoko and sample more of her music from playlists on my channel home. Riyoko doesn't really make short clips of her music and a lot of her music and performances are missing from her own channel due to Japanese copyright laws, where venues own all the rights to recordings on their premises. Because of that Riyoko can't freely share a lot of her music with us. But an artist like this should be shared with the world, so I'm making it rain on my channels.
高木さん👸、お疲れ様です❤素晴らしい演奏をありがとうございます💕💘💓
My fav was joe sample! 😮wow! Love it!
@@deanmarkham6655 you still got a lot to dig in this channel!
Extremely cool song ! Excellent performance and a fun ending!!! ❤
It's a super fun tune indeed and seems like it's very underrated, here's the original: ruclips.net/video/QzNVBuKPKdI/видео.html and there isn't much else except the album version. I really love Riyoko's ad-lib solos here, she really puts spotlight on this piece and makes it shine.
0:00 Rainbow Seeker (Joe Sample)
1:29 Rainbow Seeker (Joe Sample) - ad-lib solo 1
3:05 Rainbow Seeker (Joe Sample) - ad-lib solo 2
4:20 Rainbow Seeker (Joe Sample) - finale