Personnel on "One After Another" CD:
Mamiko Watanabe - piano,
Walter Smith - tenor sax,
Massimo Biolcati - bass,
Francisco Mela - drums.
Personnel on "ORIGIN/JEWEL" CD:
"ORIGIN" (Funk/Latin)
Mamiko Watanabe - piano,
Ruben Austin - electric bass,
Maurice Brown - trumpet,
Karel Ruzicka, Jr. - tenor sax,
Harvey Wirht - drums,
Roland Guerrero - percussion.
"JEWEL" (Acoustic piano trio)
Mamiko Watanabe - piano
Massimo Biolcati - bass,
Francisco Mela - drums
Personnel on "Everybody loves my baby" by Spencer Williams & "Ain't Misbehavin" by Fats Waller:
Mamiko Watanabe- piano,
Kevin Louis- Cornet & Percussion,
Ron Caswell-Tuba
Influences
My influences and favorite artists - I love all kinds of music....George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Teddy Wilson, Art Tatum, Erroll Garner, Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Michel Petrucciani, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Danilo Perez, Miles Davis,Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Bobby McFerrin, Ray Charles, Bob Marley, Music from Bahia, Brazil, J.S. Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Prokofiev...
Mamiko Watanabe was born in Fukuoka, Japan and began studying piano at the age of four at the Yamaha Music School. In 1999, she received a scholarship to attend the renowned Berklee College of Music and studied Jazz piano, Improvisation and Composition. While at Berklee, she received several awards for Jazz Piano and Composition and was a semi-finalist at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition in Montreux, Switzerland both in 2002 and 2003.
She has toured Germany, Italy and Japan and has performed with several jazz greats such as Joe Lovano, Kevin Mahogany, Bobby McFerrin, Tiger Okoshi and Phil Wilson while in college. In 2003 she received the DownBeat Student Award in the Jazz Soloist category before she made the decision to move to New York and expand her musical horizons. Since then, Mamiko has performed at many notable venues such as The Kitano Hotel, Blue Note, Cleopatra's Needle, The Lenox Lounge, St. Nicholas Pub, The Jazzmobile, 966 Fulton, 55 Bar, Sugar Bar, Zinc Bar, Blues Alley (in Washington, D.C.), The Knitting Factory, Bitter End and S.O.B.'s. Her exposure to several different styles of music such as Latin, Gospel, Reggae, Funk and R&B is the result of her working with several Afro-Brazilian and African bands and playing Gospel in Church every Sunday morning. She has worked with Roland Alexander Quintet, Joe Ford, the Valery Ponomarev Big Band and Afro-Brazilian groups such "Ogans", "Dende & Hahahaes" and "Silvana Magda & Katende".
As a leader, Mamiko recorded her first CD "One After Another" in 2005 and released her second CD "ORIGIN/JEWEL" in 2007 which in fact is actually the combination of two separate discs; "ORIGIN" is a collection of the Funk and Latin influenced compositions and "JEWEL" contains works recorded in a more straight-ahead jazz piano trio format.
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Also, we share these words, a cornerstone of our kuana 'ike...worldview...
Give all the children a chance Teach them to think, sing and dance Share all the love that you can Help them become... True Woman and Man
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Hello Mamiko, I love your work, you are a very gifted musician and I've got to come see you perform live. Thanks for the add and the friendshipPlease sign my Guestbook above my top friends. Much continued success in 2010.
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Please sign my Guestbook above my top friends. Much continued success in 2010.
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