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Here Riyoko is first figuring out by ear the audience request ('Summer' by Joe Hisaishi) and then moments later Riyoko proceeds improvising on its theme. Looks like Riyoko didn't recognize it by name but then when she listened to it, she knew exactly what it was - it's a pretty famous contemporary piece. This is from Riyoko's final show in NYC at her friend Shuya's Japanese restaurant by the same name. This performance was recorded on the evening of 23 June 2024 at Shuya NYC.

Riyoko is a world-class Japanese Jazz pianist and composer who isn't bound by a single genre or style and has crossed classical, traditional Japanese, pop, EDM, and anime genre boundaries and styles in her compositions, arrangements, and performances. She's a classically trained prodigy and has been playing piano since age 4 and for well over 3 decades, latter 2 of which she dedicated to Jazz. She's renowned for her musicality, deep harmonic understanding, live performances full of energy with fluent improvisations, and delicate touch on the keys. Together with her talent and charming character she continues to proliferate Jazz and attract many fans from all over the world.

You can learn more about Riyoko and sample more of her music from playlists on my channel home. Riyoko doesn't really make short clips of her music and a lot of her music and performances are missing from her own channel due to Japanese copyright laws, where venues own all the rights to recordings on their premises. Because of that Riyoko can't freely share a lot of her music with us. But an artist like this should be shared with the world, so I'm making it rain on my channels.

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0:00 by ear figuring out request
0:12 improvising on its theme
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