"116 West 238St"---Reuben Rogers&John Lamkin
"DODO 3"---Joseph Lepore & Rodney Green
Influences
Bach, Chopin, Mahler, Debussy, Prokfiev, Puccini, Monk,
Ellington, Miles, Joe Zawinul, Steve Reich,Ryuichi Sakamoto,
Toru Takemitsu and all the musician's I've played with.
TORU DODO , Born in Tokyo, started playing piano at age 4.
He went to the Berklee College of Music
then moved to NY in 1998. Since then he has kept his musical
career going forward, He often tours around USA, Japan, Canada, West
Africa as a leader and as a sideman.
He released 3 of his leader album "DODO"('02) "116 West 238 St."('04) (featuring Reuben Rogers on bass and John Lamkin on drums) and
" DODO 3" ('06) (featuring Joseph Lepore on bass and Rodney Green on drums) from Japanese label , Jazz City Spirits/Muzak, all produced by a legendary guitarist ,Yosiaki Masuo.
Musicians who he worked with as a side man are Kenny Garret, Benny Golson,
Curtis Fuller, Ruth Brown, Terumasa Hino just to name a few.
Now My CDs are available on CD Baby!!
http://cdbaby.com/cd/torudodo1
http://cdbaby.com/cd/torudodo3
I really enjoyed your performance and MC @ Brooklyn Museum last night! Brooklyn loves you!!! Thanks to that great time, my 35 min. walk to my apt. was seemed like 15 min.! Give my best regard to your wonderful wife, Noriko-san! Take care,
Bonjour Konnichiwa Hello Toru Yes it is so a pleasure to listen to your music! Many applauses for your carreer for which I wish you a long long musical life! Best Olivier Marchand a musician from Paris
Good to meet you at Cleo's. Actually I think I did see you once before during the after hours set at Dizzy's some months ago. Anyway, good to hear you and really nice to meet you.
