Taku Yabuki, a piano and keyboard player from Japan, continues to perform extensively as a session musician in Japan regardless of styles. Also, he recently has appeared in certain festivals in US and Canada with Tatsuya Yoshida, a legendary drummer of "the underground music scene."
With his highly acclaimed playing techniques and time feel, he performs every music flawlessly, including those odd meter tunes.
Although learning classical piano from age 5, he grew up with pop and rock.
During his time as a college student he started to play in bands; there he encounted many musical genres and was especially fascinated by performances of Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman, naturally developing his deep interest in instrumental music. At age 21 he met jazz music. He soon started to learn the theory, and then decided to pursue his study abroad; he enrolled in Berklee College of Music in Boston. Upon graduation, he returned to Japan. Since then, he has been working very actively up to the present date--mainly as a pianist for several singers.
Still studying jazz and classical music in depth, he continues to develop the world of his own music, with many other talented musicians.
His album, called "Modern World Symphony," features a total of 46 great musicians, with whom Taku has performed, either in Japan or in US. Indeed, everybody who appears here gives full play to his ability. Wonderful sound.
Despite these tunes do contain lots of odd meters and are never easy to play, every melody is surprisingly beautiful.
With strings and horns effectively used, the sound is deep and symphonic; regardless of age and personal taste, this album certainly has the energy to push back the boundaries of music. ↓To Get My Album↓
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★Disc Revue [An excellent up-and-coming piano player from Japan. The album, opening up fresh possibilities of instrumental music, features a beautiful combination of string instruments and his exquisite piano performance.]
●2007.Taku Yabuki Unit Live@ YouTube ↓
Great thanks for helping Department of Virtuosity with spread the Virtuosity worldwide!
The 10th issue of Department of Virtuosity has been published!
There you will find 13 reviews most of whom are virtuoso-oriented albums: Epidemia (6 reviews of CDs and 2 of DVDs; melodic fantasy power metal from Russia), Lua Hadar (2 reviews; jazz with female vocalist from the USA) and Zonata (3 reviews; neoclassical power metal from Sweden).
The effects are available on: www.hmpmag.pl (please click the golden banner of DoV)
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We wake up every morning and play the music of the new MySpace friends who have arrived at our site during the night. It occurred to us that these friends (you are among them) are almost universally positive, whether they be novices or legends, and without regard to their station in life or the country they occupy.
Although it's not an original thought, it also occurred to us that we couldn’t hold a verbal conversation with most of these friends, but we have bridged that gap by expressing our art honestly with each other.
We all have been filling the world with our music and art, in the hope that our messages of love and human understanding will have an impact on the world at large.
What a gift and what an opportunity we have received from this technology!
