Jazz Piano Trio inspired by great jazz masters like, Duke Ellington, Andrew Hill, Bill Evans..

10 MP3 Songs in this album (63:55) !
Related styles: JAZZ: Traditional Jazz Combo, JAZZ: Free Jazz

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CD REVIEW 5 STARS!!! -SWING JOURNAL CD REVIEW OCTOBER, 2006

PRELUDE TO A KISS

Artists: Miki Hayama (p). Kiyoshi Kitagawa (b)., Eric McPherson(drs)

BIOGRAPHY
Miki Hayama was born in a musical family in Kyoto, Japan. She began to play piano and Wadaiko(Japanese drums) when she was 7 years old.
She enrolled the Osaka College of Music where majoring in classic piano, and studied jazz piano with Sadayasu Fujii at Fuji Jazz school in Kyoto.

She is the first prize winner at the Yokohama Jazz Competition in 1996.

Currently, she lives in New York City, and has been appearing world wide as a leader as well as sideman.

Miki Hayama has performed with Grammy Nominee alto saxophone player, Kenny Garrett, James Spaulding(a.sax), Joe Ford(a.sax), Vincent Herring(a.sax), Brad Leali (a.sax), Wes Anderson(a.sax), Mark Gross(a.sax), Bruce Williams(a.sax), Roland Alexander(a.sax), Eric Alexander(t.sax), JD Allen(t.sax), Roy Hargrove(tp), Sean Jones(tp), Carl Allen(drs), Cindy Blackman(drs), Dennis Davis (former drummer of Stevie Wonder), Omar Hakim(drs), Ralph Peterson(drs), Eric McPherson(drs), Nasheet Waits(drs), Nat Reeves(drs), Kiyoshi Kitagawa(b), Richie Goods(b), Lonnie Plaxico(b), Vitaly Golovnev(tp), Shunzo Ohno(tp), Valery Ponomarev(tp)& His Big Band , Tia Fuller(a.sax), Miriam Sullivan(b), Kim Thompson(drs), Jason Curry(a.sax), to name a few.

Major Jazz festivals:

2003 Syracuse Jazz festival (with Kenny Garrett Quartet )
2004 Mary LouWilliams Woman in Jazz Festival ( with Miriam Sullivan Quintet)
2004 Detroit Jazz Festival ( with Sean Jones Quintet)
2004 Savanna Jazz Festival ( with Kim Thompson Quartet)
2005 Mary Lou Williams Woman in Jazz Festival in 2005
2006 Moscow Jazz Festival ( with Vitaly Golovnev Quintet)
2006 Indianapolis Jazz Festival ( with Jason Curry Quartet)
2006 Yonkers River Festival ( with Sage)
2006 Yokohama Jazz Promenade Festival (Miki Hayama Quartet)

Major Jazz club & Concert Hall :

The John F .Kennedy Center ( Washington DC), Cheney Hall (CT),
Dizzyâs Club Coca Cola, Blue Note , Jazz Standard, Smoke, Birdland, Sweet Rhythm, Jazz Gallery 55 Bar , The Kitano Hotel, Zinc Bar, St Nickâs Pub, Mintonâs Play House (NYC) Jazz Kitchen ( Indianapolis), Le Club ( Moscow) , Joe ZawinulâsBirdlan(Austria)

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