🌈🎹 improvisation & 4 versions: Riyoko Takagi (

Riyoko's channel:    / @riyopiano   website: https://riyoko.jp

Happy holidays everyone! Please enjoy this upbeat and magical Riyoko's original composition from her 'The Piano Story' (2023) album in different flavors.

0:00 Rainbow Voyage themed improvisation - 25 November 2023 (YouTube Live)
4:37 Rainbow Voyage saxophone duo version - 13 June 2023 (M Z E S Tokyo) - unique version
6:16 Rainbow Voyage saxophone duo - Riyoko's ad-lib piano solo
7:20 Rainbow Voyage saxophone duo - Takahiro Miyazaki's ad-lib saxophone solo
8:50 Rainbow Voyage saxophone duo - finale
10:36 Rainbow Voyage trio version - 17 August 2023 (D-B o p Jazz Club)
12:14 Rainbow Voyage trio version - Riyoko's ad-lib piano solo
14:40 Rainbow Voyage trio version - finale
16:25 Rainbow Voyage trio version - 18 August 2023 (D-B o p Jazz Club)
18:01 Rainbow Voyage trio version - Riyoko's ad-lib piano solo
20:25 Rainbow Voyage trio version - finale
22:11 Rainbow Voyage trio version - 21 November 2023 (D-B o p Jazz Club)
23:45 Rainbow Voyage trio version - Riyoko's ad-lib piano solo
26:09 Rainbow Voyage trio version - finale (my favorite finale right now)

13 June 2023 (M Z E S Tokyo): Takahiro Miyazaki (saxophone, T-SQUARE) https://miyazaki-sax.com
17-18 August 2023 (D-B o p Jazz Club): Yosuke Inoue (bass, Spirit of Chick Corea band / Steve Gadd / Junko Onishi)    / @yosukeinouejazz  , Hiroyuki Noritake (drums, T-SQUARE / Synchronized DNA / DIMENSION)
21 November 2023 (D-B o p Jazz Club): Yosuke Terao (bass), Hiroyuki Noritake (drums, T-SQUARE / Synchronized DNA / DIMENSION)

I also urge everyone to check legendary Japanese Jazz-fusion band T-SQUARE:

   • TRUTH (LIVE) T-SQUARE   (T-SQUARE - 'Truth' - Masato Honda, legendary Japanese saxophonist, playing on EWI - Electronic Wind Instrument pioneered by Nyle Steiner and AKAI in 1970s-1980s)
   • casiopea vs tsquare-truth   (T-SQUARE and Cassiopea [another legendary Japanese Jazz-fusion group] - 'Truth' - guitar-centric version - joint 25th anniversary show in early 2000s)
   • casiopea vs tsquare - fightman   (T-SQUARE and Cassiopea - 'Fightman' - joint 25th anniversary show in early 2000s - Hirotaka Izumi's [RIP] intro piano improvisation and here's Riyoko honoring him playing his original piano composition -    • 「Twilight in Upper West」 和泉宏隆 / ピアノ 高...  )
   • T-SQUARE - EUROSTAR-run into the light-   (T-SQUARE - 'Eurostar' - Hiroyuki Noritake's composition that Riyoko plays often to honor him -    • €🌟🎹 'Eurostar' & Riyoko Takagi (@riyo...  )
   • T-square - Jubilee Honda masato, Miya...   (Masato Honda and Takahiro Miyazaki dueling on saxophones, Hiroyuki Noritake on drums) - decades ago
   • Honda & Miyazaki Saxophone battle   (Masato Honda and Takahiro Miyazaki dueling on saxophones, Hiroyuki Noritake on drums) - recently

The first performance in this video is an unlisted video YouTube Solo Live from 25 November 2023 on Riyoko's YouTube channel. You can get there by going to her official website and following her official socials (Facebook, etc.) and checking her posts from around the date of the show. Alternatively, you can go to her YouTube channel and check Community tab for the link to the show

The remaining 4 full performances from 2023 are in a 'R a i n b o w V o y a g e' playlist on my other channel    / @riyo-live   dedicated to Riyoko's live activity:    • Riyo - 'R a i n b o w  V o y a g e' v...  

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.

高木里代子

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