Riyoko's channel: [ Ссылка ] website: [ Ссылка ]

Riyoko with her trio performing live her original 'Jewel Sea' at Riviera Zushi Marina on 3 February 2024. This show was presented by Shonan Jazz By The Sea, broadcasted live by Shonan Beach FM 78.9, and recorded live by me using their Web player [ Ссылка ]. Yosuke Terao is on bass and Hiroyuki Noritake (T-SQUARE, Synchronized DNA, DIMENSION) is on drums. Full live show from where this performance was taken: [ Ссылка ]

Here's album version of 'Jewel Sea' from 'Jewelry Box' (2022) album: [ Ссылка ] (Riyoko is hilarious, she snuck in a beautiful 'Jewel Sea' intro improv onto the album. How do I know it's an improv? Because she never played it like that live - she doesn't remember her improvs lol. She's done that before. Just like that time when I discovered a beautiful 2-minute piano intro improv to Riyoko's original 'SAKURA' [ Ссылка ] on Inner-City Jam Orchestra's 2009 house/pop 'RYUDO' album, which is half-filled with Riyoko's original house/pop compositions. Only physical album features this beautiful 2-minute 'SAKURA' intro improv, digital distributions of 'RYUDO' album chop that part off and go straight into pop version of 'SAKURA' [ Ссылка ]. And another time, I discovered a legit acoustic jazz piano trio version of Riyoko's original 'Blowing Luv' as a bonus track on one of the two physical versions of Riyoko's 2016 'THE DEBUT!' pop album. This is the one thing you have to understand about Riyoko - you can't just glance over her music. You have to put in your honest time, and you will be surprised many times over. This is something I thankfully understood very early with Riyoko.)

0:00 Jewel Sea (Riyoko's original)
1:06 Jewel Sea (Riyoko's original) - chorus
1:27 Jewel Sea (Riyoko's original) - ad-lib piano solo 1
3:14 Jewel Sea (Riyoko's original) - chorus
3:38 Jewel Sea (Riyoko's original) - ad-lib piano solo 2
4:07 Jewel Sea (Riyoko's original) - chorus / finale

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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