Showing posts with label Atsuko Hashimoto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Atsuko Hashimoto. Show all posts

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Atsuko Hashimoto Organ Trio & Voices - Songs We Love

Size: 161,6 MB
Time: 69:07
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2005
Styles: Jazz/Blues: Hammond Organ, Vocals
Art: Front

01. Ladybug (6:22)
02. Bye Bye Blackbird (4:25)
03. My Ship (5:21)
04. You Don't Know What Love Is (4:02)
05. Misty (5:21)
06. The Song Is You (4:46)
07. Nature Boy (7:30)
08. Ruggin' The Blues (4:37)
09. What's Going On (4:50)
10. The More I See You (6:33)
11. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (3:47)
12. God Bless The Child (5:56)
13. Stormy Monday (5:31)

Personnel:
Atsuko Hashimoto: B3 Hammond Organ
Yutaka Hashimoto: Guitar
Juasa Kanoh: Drums

Voices:
Elijah Levi
Harvey Thompson
Toni Scruggs

'Songs We Love' is a fitting title for a project that brings together Osaka's finest husband and wife jazz team with three outstanding vocalists from the U.S. Songs abound on this recording, but the operative word here is love. The love the Hashimoto's inspire, reflected in the reverent yet playful way they approach their craft, goes a long way toward explaining why others are so eager to share their talents in creating music with them.

Atsuko began to explore the B3 at an early age starting with popular songs and cutting her teeth on such jazz classics as Duke Ellington's Take the A Train. She studied classical music for several years before choosing to dedicate herself to jazz music and the jazz organ.

At age 18 she started working for Hammond Japan, giving live organ demonstrations and instructing as a Hammond-certified teacher. She quickly developed a reputation for her skills at the B3, creating complex melodic and harmonic compositions over a consistent, inventive and hard-swinging bass-line.

Atsuko brings a freshness to the jazz repertory and the Hammond B3 through her innovative approach to the instrument. She has played with jazz greats before large audiences, her joy in music, sense of play and abundant personal warmth shining through her mastery of the idiom while exercising the full range of voices and dynamics available to the Hammond/Leslie combo.

Songs We Love 

Monday, July 6, 2015

Atsuko Hashimoto - Time After Time

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:25
Size: 145.2 MB
Styles: Organ jazz
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[6:06] 1. Time After Time
[4:23] 2. Just One Of Those Things
[6:03] 3. I've Never Been In Love Before
[6:15] 4. Max
[6:28] 5. Estate
[5:56] 6. The End Of A Love Affair
[7:01] 7. Shiny Stockings
[7:03] 8. Love For Sale
[5:29] 9. Please Send Me Someone To Love
[4:20] 10. Little Suede Shoes
[4:16] 11. Summertime

Atsuko Hashimoto (organ); Yutaka Hashimoto (guitar); Jeff Hamilton (drums).

When Atsuko Hashimoto was brought to Southern California by Jeff Hamilton, the legendary drummer who fell in love with her music when he jammed with her in Osaka, Japan, she wowed and captured the heart of the discriminating audience. With her successful performances at the Monterrey Jazz Festival (2007) and the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival (2008), her fan base in the US is rapidly increasing.

Her latest release from Japan, Time After Time, was recorded in 2006 and 2007 when she was touring Los Angeles with Jeff Hamilton and Yutaka Hashimoto, her husband and talented guitarist. What is most obvious from the start is the sympathetic, locked-in rhythmic feel between Atsuko and Hamilton. Together they create a wonderful groove and swing feel that surround you like a comfortable blanket.

The three musicians complement each other perfectly, providing well-timed comments and often finishing one another's musical sentences. Atsuko shows her comprehensive approach to jazz organ and complete mastery of the instrument. Hamilton showcases his masterful drumming, utilizing his sticks, brushes and hands to the fullest extent.

Time After Time

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Atsuko Hashimoto - ...Until The Sun Comes Up

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:26
Size: 147.5 MB
Styles: Organ jazz
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[6:05] 1. All Or Nothing At All
[5:44] 2. Soul Station
[5:52] 3. So In Love
[8:22] 4. Moon River
[6:08] 5. What A Wonderful World
[6:20] 6. Blues For Naka
[4:18] 7. You Are My Sunshine
[6:30] 8. Cherry
[4:18] 9. Your's Is My Heart Alone
[5:46] 10. The Good Life
[4:56] 11. Hallelujah, I Love Her So

Jazz organists often have a tendency to gravitate toward the funkier side of things, and have done so since the glory days of Jimmy Smith and Jimmy McGriff. Organist Atsuko Hashimoto, on the other hand, seems to have focused more tightly on developing her sense of swing, and it pays off mightily on this, her first album for the venerable Capri label. The program is a mix of originals and truly well-worn standards, and what may be most impressive about the album is her ability to bring freshness and energy to some of these chestnuts through sheer energy and the elephantine power of her swing; listen, for example, to her renditions of both "Cherry" and "Yours Is My Heart Alone." Not only are her solos amazing for their joyful inventiveness, but the rhythmic power she generates along with her sidemen Graham Dechter (guitar) and Jeff Hamilton (drums) is like a force of nature. Elsewhere she takes brisk, no-nonsense midtempo renditions of "So in Love" and "Moon River" and turns them into something brand new. The group's arrangement of "It's a Wonderful World" is the album's sole disappointment, a predictably sappy rendition that is just barely redeemed by yet another brilliantly constructed organ solo. The album ends on a very high note, with the joyfully gospel-flavored "Hallelujah I Love Her So." This is a brilliant and thrilling album. ~Rick Anderson

Recording Date: August 8, 2010 & August 9, 2010

...Until The Sun Comes Up