Biography: Yaya3, Yesterdays New Quintet, Yog Sothoth, Yoko Miwa, York DeSouza, Yosuke Inoue, Yosuke Yamashita, Your Neighborhood Saxophone Quartet, Yalloppin' Hounds, Yamamoto Seiichi,

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Yaya3
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Genre:Jazz

Saxophonist Joshua Redman, keyboardist Sam Yahel, and drummer Brian Blade had crossed paths frequently before they joined together to form Yaya3 Each musician has recorded as a leader, and Blade had appeared as a sideman on Yahel’s albums Trio and In the Blink of an Eye, and on Redman’s Freedom in the Groove

Yesterdays New Quintet Biography, Photos, Pictures

Touted as a jazz group, but openly acknowledged as a solo project of left-coast rap producer Madlib, Yesterdays New Quintet boldly experimented with the fusion of hip-hop and jazz

This is the second of two French bands that have chosen to name themselves after a monstrous beast created out of the pit of hell that was author HP Lovecraft’s imagination

Since her arrival in the United States in 1996, Japanese improviser Yoko Miwa has earned a reputation for being one of the more lyrical, melodic and accessible pianists in the acoustic post-bop realm

York DeSouza Biography, Photos, Pictures

A terrific jazz pianist, York De Souza appears on more than a dozen recordings made between 1938 and 1950 Following this period he seems to have dropped out of the picture, an artist whose status can be considered not only obscure but rare

Yosuke Inoue Biography, Photos, Pictures

Yosui Inoue was one of Japan’s most popular folk-rockers of the early ’70s, earning him the nickname “the Bob Dylan of Japan” Born the eldest son to a working class couple in Fukuoka prefecture, Inoue wasn’t exactly a child prodigy, but he did grow up learning the popular songs of his time, Enka songs by Misora Hibari and others, and often sang them in school singing contests

Yosuke Yamashita Biography, Photos, Pictures

Yamashita studied piano as a child and has played professionally since the age of 17 He attended Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo from 1962-1967 and played for a time with saxophonist Sadao Watanabe

Your Neighborhood Saxophone Quartet Biography, Photos, Pictures

Avant-garde jazz masters Your Neighborhood Saxophone Quartet was founded in the late ’80s by saxophonists Tom Hall and Cercie Miller The group would go on to record four albums and tour steadily with other offbeat jazz musicians

Yalloppin' Hounds Biography, Photos, Pictures

Taking their name from a longtime joke among the musicians of Illinois Jacquet & Big Band, the pop-friendly Yalloppin’ Hounds have been one of the most industrious acts in the New York swing scene

Yamamoto Seiichi Biography, Photos, Pictures

Yamamoto Seiichi has been an active part of the underground Osaka music scene since the late ’80s, not only as a musician, but running the music club Bears and heading his own label as well

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