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Meg Okura
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The New York Times called her music "grandiloquent beauty that transitions easily from grooves to big cascades to buoyant swing"(Giovanni Russonello), Meg Okura is a jazz composer and violinist and the founder of the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble based in New York. In the last decade, she has won over two dozen prizes and honors, including the 2023 ISJAC Fundamental Freedom Commission and International Women In Music’s 2023 Portland Jazz Composer’s Prize.
Over the last 18 years, her ensembles have graced iconic venues in New York, such as Birdland Jazz Club, Blue Note, Dizzy’s, and Knitting Factory, as well as the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., K.L. Jazz Festival in Malaysia, and other performances in the U.S., Israel, Serbia, and Japan.
Home Theme
Album: Solomon Diaries Vol IV & V
By Sam Sadigursky
Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 09:45
Take Five with Accordionist Nathan Koci
by AAJ Staff
Meet Nathan Koci Nathan Koci is a composer, performer, and music director working across a variety of styles and disciplines, from jazz to theater to dance to improvised and experimental musics. His album Solomon Diaries Vol IV & V (Adhyaropa Records, 2025) with clarinetist Sam Sadigursky is a modern take on Klezmer jazz. As ...
Voyages
By Ben Kono
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Yobiyose (The Calling); Bata-Kusai!!; Belong; Across the Pond; Issei; Nisei; Sansei; Yonsei.
Lingering
By Meg Okura
Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Improvisation No. 1; Without Words; Again and Again; Will You Hear My Voice; Seven Short Pieces: I.Aleph; Seven Short Pieces: II. Blues Kachol; Seven Short Pieces: III. Mi is Who is He is She; Seven Short Pieces: IV. Maim Korim; Seven Short Pieces: V. Shamaim; Seven Short Pieces: VI. Lilah; Seven Short Pieces: VII. Hora Tarantella; Waltz For Wollesen; Improvisation No. 2; Lingering.
The Hidden World Of Piloo
By Ada Rovatti
Label: Piloo Records and Productions LLC
Released: 2024
Track listing: Make Up Girl;
Hey You (Scintilla Of Sonder) (Feat. Fay Claassen );
Painchiller;
Life Must Go On ( feat. Alma Naidu);
Grooveland;
Take It Home (feat. Niki Haris);
Simba's Samba;
Red August;
The Naked King;
Done Deal (Feat. Niki Haris and Kurt Elling).
Ben Kono Turned Family History into Chamber Jazz
by Lawrence Peryer
Ben Kono discovered his family's American origin story in the pages of his grandfather's memoirs. Thirteen-year-old Juhei Caleb Kono sailed alone from Japan in 1911, worked Pacific Northwest farms, and attended fourth grade as a young adult to build a new life. These translated accounts sparked Kono's new album Voyages (Self Produced), an ambitious blend of ...
Ada Rovatti: The Hidden World Of Piloo
by Katchie Cartwright
Ada Rovatti's curiously titled album, The Hidden World of Piloo, has a tale attached (and a tail). Piloo is an affectionate name Rovatti's father has called her since childhood, after a “naughty" cat in a favorite children's book. She adopted it for her label as well (Piloo Records). Rovatti grew up in Mortara, Italy, outside of ...
