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    “Falling Leaves - Live in Hamburg” - New CD by Ayako Shirasaki

    “Falling Leaves - Live in Hamburg”, the stunning new solo jazz piano album from frequent finalist in major U.S. jazz piano competitions Ayako Shirasaki, has been released by Jan Matthies Records on September 7, 2010.
    CD Reviews so far:
    www.eJazzNews.com: “Falling Leaves is not your typical solo piano outing, it contains several magical moments listeners will turn […]

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Ayako Shirasaki Pronunciation

To support our radio campaign for the new CD “Falling Leaves - Live in Hamburg” we recorded a small mp3 file 154 KB in size, so that you can actually hear how Ayako’s name is pronounced.
Listen here: Ayako_Shirasaki_pronunciation.mp3
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Free online stream concert! Live at Smalls Jazz Club, NY, USA

The Hammer Klavier Trio had a great time in New York and we are happy to announce that the recording of their concert at Smalls Jazz Club is now available for your free listening experience at Smalls Audio Archive here: www.smallsjazzclub.com/index.cfm?eventId=4203 

After the concert the co-owner Mitch Borden said: “Boris and the boys-were simply fantastic. I […]

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“one of the greatest living jazz pianists” - Los Angeles Times

“Still, Los Angeles is losing one of the greatest living jazz pianists, and a composer-orchestrator who has few peers, if any. Broadbent’s orchestrations have enlarged the work of headline singers, including Diana Krall, Natalie Cole and Michael Feinstein, and Charlie Haden’s Quartet West.”
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Jazz Pianist Ayako Shirasaki launches new website with a CD giveaway

Brooklyn, NY, USA, January 23, 2011
Frequent finalist in major U.S. jazz piano competitions and internationally performing jazz pianist Ayako Shirasaki has launched her new website, www.ayakoshirasaki.com.
The website features everything Ayako related. Biography, News, Schedule, Discography store-implemented, Video & Media. Fans of her music can now listen to tracks in the site-wide music player as well […]

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Video nominated as Video-of-the-Year candidate for the 2011 Awards by the Jazz Journalists Association

“The small sensation in the otherwise strictly americophile Association is the nomination of a live video from Hamburg: The Hammer Klavier Trio with Boris Netsvetaev, piano, Philipp Steen, bass, and Kai Bussenius, drums, recorded at Überjazz Festival on 30. October 2010.”
Read more at the Jazz Journalists Association Awards website:
http://news.jazzjournalists.org/2011/04/video-of-year