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Kaori Osawa
Kaori Osawa: Aluminum
by Glenn Astarita
Tokyo-based pianist Kaori Osawa studied under avant-jazz stalwart Aki Takase, the latter, now residing in Germany. But what is striking about this solo piano outing is her uncanny ability to convey a visible component that perhaps mimics the abstract attributes within contemporary art. She paints a canvass that is built on improvisation and composition to counterbalance the lone standard, a semi-free deconstruction of Monk's Well You Needn't.
But this isn't just another solo piano jaunt. The artist ...
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