Live performance with Logan Richardson, Blues Folks Huge Bang

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New York live performance venue The City Corridor is internet hosting a jazz live performance for composer and performer Yoko Kanno on March 29, 2025. The live performance can be carried out by Logan Richardson and his Blues Folks Huge Bang group.

Yoko Kanno is maybe finest recognized for her work on the soundtracks for Cowboy Bebop and plenty of mentions within the Macross sequence. Her work on a number of jazz subgenres within the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack has earned her a fame as a jazz composer, however her work spans a number of genres, together with rock and classical. She scored Macross Pluswhich has quite a few digital and classically impressed compositions, and did the identical for Macross BorderShe has collaborated with director Shoji Kawamori not solely on Macrossbut additionally in Arjuna and are Aquarius franchise. Her collaboration with director Shinichiro Watanabe extends from Cowboy Bebop Disagreeable Terror in resonance And House Dandyin addition to Kids on the slopesthe place she put her jazz composition into apply once more in a narrative about aspiring jazz musicians.

She can be recognized for her long-term collaboration with singer Maaya Sakamoto. Kanno composed Sakamoto’s debut single “Yakusoku wa Iranai,” which Sakamoto sang when she was solely 16 years outdated. The music served because the well-known opening quantity for Escaflowne’s imaginative and prescient anime, for which Kanno additionally composed the soundtrack, and Sakamoto additionally appeared as the principle character Hitomi. Kanno was the unique composer for Sakamoto’s data till 2003 (though they usually collaborated afterward), and composed a lot of Sakamoto’s subsequent standard songs, together with “Platinum” (from Card catcher Sakura), “Hemisphere” (from RahXephon), “Gravity” (from The Wolf’s Rain), and “Triangler” (from Macross Border), the final three of which had been additionally heard in exhibits the place Kanno composed the soundtrack.

Supply: The Metropolis Corridor