Super grooving Brazilian Jazz/Miho Nobuzane,a brilliant jazz pianist,mainly performs in NY,recorded with Adriano Santos(Ds),Gustavo Amarante(B),Jorge Continentino(Sax)Nanny Assis(Vo&Perc),Darryl Hall(B),Charles Hopkins(Ds),and Abdou Mboup(Perc&Kora)

13 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Latin Jazz, JAZZ: Bossa Nova



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Super grooving Brazilian Jazz!-produced by Miho Nobuzane

Miho Nobuzane,a brilliant jazz pianist,from Japan,mainly performs in New York,released her first album,"Make YOU Happy".
Miho will make all of YOU happy with her first album!

She plays many different genre of music,but she decided to record her first album for Brazilian Jazz which
she loves so much and feels she can express herself best.

She uses many different Brazilian rhythms on this album which are Samba,Bossa Nova,Baiao,Afoxe,Parti do Alto,Samba Cansao,Bahia funk,3/4 Samba,world beat 5/4,and African 6/8.
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All compositions by Miho Nobuzane except for "Cravo e Canela"(Milton Nascimento),"Palco"(Gilberto Gil),"Trilhos Urbanos"(Caetano Veloso)
All arrangements by Miho Nobuzane

Miho recorded for nine tunes with some of the finest Brazilian musicians in NY who has been performing with her in different Brazilian bands in NY.(Currently,she is a regular keyboardist for five or more different Brazilian bands.)

Miho Nobuzane:piano on all tunes except 6,synthesizer on 1,6,7,vocals on 1,13,triangle on 4,window chime on 5,rain stick on 7

Adriano Santos:drums,Gustavo Amarante:el bass
on 1-3,5-8,10,13
Nanny Assis:lead vocals on 6,7,vocals&percussions on 1,7,13
Jorge Continentino:saxes on 1-3,8

She also recorded with great jazz musicians for 4 tunes.
Darryl Hall:bass,Charles Hopkins:drums,
on 4,9,11,12
Abdou Mboup:percussions on 4,9,11,12 kora(african harp)on 9,
talking drum on 11

Recorded&Mixed by Kiyoshi Greg Bufford on 1-3,5-8,10,13 at
KOBE recording studio,West Orange,NJ.

Recorded&Mixed by Peter Karl on 4,9,11,12 at Peter Karl
recording studio,Brooklyn,NY

Mastered by Jeff Jones "The Jedi Master"at World Alert Music N.Y.C

Art Design : Philip Manning
Photography : Samuel W. Elijah www.swefoto.com
Make up : Jenny Bufford
Jewelry : Aya Mikuriya www.ayazakura.com
Piano technician : Jemes Karr
Miho Nobuzane plays Steinway&Sons Pianos,YAMAHA motif-rack ES.

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-BIO-
Miho Nobuzane -Pianist,el keyboardist,Composer,Arranger, Voices,Transcriber for all styles

Miho Nobuzane was born in Osaka,Japan and began study on classical piano at YAMAHA st age of 4.She graduated from "Kobe Yamate Woman's Junior College"as a classical piano major.After graduation, she was inspired by Jazz and studied and started performing Jazz,Brazilian Jazz,Latin Jazz,and some other world music in different clubs in Japan.

In 1996,she moved into New York and soon took her place in various bands for all kinds of music(Brazilian,Jazz,R&B, Funk,Motown,African Jazz,Fusion,Latin Jazz,Salsa,Reggae,and Caribbean music)and performed all over in U.S and Martinique.

She has played and/or recorded with Bernard "pretty" Purdie,Elisabeth Withers,Rhythm Nation,Jerry Elcock(Miho is in his music video"My heart is telling me".You can check it out at his web site. http://www.jerryelcock.com),Grupo Saveiro,Valtinho,Paulo Braga,Selgio Brandao,Cafe,Ana Lu,Ana Flanca,Raquel Lima group,Ricky Sebastian,Kenny Davis,Darryl Hall,John Lee,Stanley Banks,John Benitez,David Gilmore,Abdou Mboup&Waakaw,Bakithi Kumalo group,Dominic Kanza&African Rhythm Machine, Burt Conrad allstars,and many others.