Credits:

Miyachi Ryo,Watanabe Shota,Inoue May,Keita Ogawa,Hiroyuki Ishikawa

Description:

A technical jazz bassist who has emerged in the Japanese jazz world! Ryo Miyaji's album opens up new horizons for jazz bass with a modern sensibility that does not fit into the existing framework of jazz fusion bassists! This is his debut album on the Ribbonwood label, following his self-produced album "November" released in 2017. The songs reflect his recent activities with the fixed members Shota Watanabe, Takuma Asada, and Natsumi Iguchi, and show Ryo Miyaji's growth as a musician since moving his base from New York to Japan. 27-year-old Japanese player expresses his life-sized personality as Ryo Miyaji with a large work world and song ideas in this ambitious work! The album is a work of ambition that expresses the life-size personality of Ryo Miyaji as a 27-year-old Japanese player in a large world of music and song ideas. ＜Ryo Miyaji (b) / Natsumi Iguchi (dr) / Shota Watanabe (key) / Takuma Asada (g) / Mei Inoue (g) / Isamu McGregor (key) / Keita Ogawa (per) / Hiroyuki Ishikawa (tp)

Tracklisting:

1. Pulse
2. Where I Used To Be
3. Voyager
4. Labyrinth
5. Kafe Ve Yam
6. West Side of East
7. Armenian Dancer’s Tale
8. Designed for