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My quintet band, Bop Tribals debut Album "Bop Tribal". On sale at amazon.com, CD Baby, iTunes store, local stores and here.

.. Bop Tribal, Azure McCall and iNTREPiD perform "Well You Needn't". Live at Paliku Theatre, Hawaii 6/12/09.

.. Bop Tribal and Azure McCall perform "Blue in Green". Live at Paliku Theatre, Hawaii 6/12/09.

.. Bop Tribal and iNTREPiD perform "Freedom Jazz Dance - 1". Live at Paliku Theatre, Hawaii 6/12/09.

.. Bop Tribal and iNTREPiD perform "Freedom Jazz Dance - 2". Live at Paliku Theatre, Hawaii 6/12/09.

.. Bop Tribal performs "Flowers Smell Better In June". Composed by DeShannon Higa.

.. Bop Tribal performs "Bop Tribal". Composed by DeShannon Higa.

Satomi Yarimizo is a renown jazz pianist in Hawaii. She started taking piano and organ lessons in Japan at age three. During her teen years, she played drums, guitar as well as saxophone. She really loved playing music. At age 13. She started playing simple jazz/fusion by ear. She already loved jazz very much and listen the same music over and over. During middle and high schools she did a lot of ensemble and arrangement work for piano and keyboard. She played fusion with her friends.

She moved to Hawaii in 2000. She started to seriously teach herself jazz theory in 2004 and to sit in at local jazz venues in order to become a full-time musician. In 2005, a friend of hers and one of the greatest trumpet player, Tiger Okoshi recommended her to come to his school, so she attended the intensive summer course at the Berklee College of Music in Boston to further enrich her understanding of jazz. She started gigging soon after she returned to Honolulu, and now regularly perform jazz 2 to 4 nights a week at assorted venues with her duo, trio, quartet and quintet featuring various respected local musicians and visiting musicians such as Valery Ponomarev, Frank Perowsky and Stafford Hunter. She has been a house pianist of the Dragon Upstairs from 2006 and her band is playing Saturdays regularly.

Her quintet band "Bop Tribal" released its debut album in December 2008, which earned glowing praises for its top-notch musicianship and originality, and won the "Best Jazz Album Award" at the Hawaii Music Award 2008, as well as received an honorable 4-star review from the prestigious Downbeat Magazine in its June 2009 issue. In June 2009, the band put on a phenomenally successful concert entitled "Shades of Blue," celebrating the music of Miles Davis, which has further stimulated the group's ever-growing popularity.

Sample Music:
"Melancholic Toes" is Satomi's original composition.
"Confirmation" is composed by Charlie Parker.
"Free Improvisasion" is Satomi's solo of "On The Edge/DeShannon Higa" from Live at Paliku.

All songs are performed by

Satomi Yarimizo (piano)
DeShannon Higa (trumpet)
Reggie Padilla (tenor saxophone)
Shawn Conley (bass) ("Melanchoric Toe")
Jon Hawes (bass) ("Confirmation" and "Free improvisation")
Abe Lagrimas Jr. (drums)

Check out Satomi's blog, too.