Trio at Butter Note, Ito, Japan
Distinctive and vibrant modern jazz in the classic piano trio format. An exciting UK – Japan collaboration featuring drum legend Yasuhiro Yoshigaki and UK/Japanese bassist Mao Yamada.
The Butter Note Club, Ito is a special place. A warm, cosy lodge in the woods an hour or so out of Tokyo. With great hospitality and even greater musical taste, this is one of Honshu’s best kept secrets.
Dorian Ford – piano
Mao Yamada – bass
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki – drums
1315−127 Futo, Ito City Sizuoka
Köln Conversations, Koendori Classics, Tokyo, Japan
A performance of Köln Conversations in this popular Tokyo club. Koendori Classics is a calm and minimalist space; a club setting but with a recital hall feel. An ideal context for Köln Conversations.
Dorian Ford – piano
B1 Yamate Church, 19-5 Udagawa-cho Shibuya, Tokyo
Trio at Brickblock, Oita, Japan
Distinctive and vibrant modern jazz in the classic piano trio format. An exciting UK – Japan collaboration featuring drum legend Yasuhiro Yoshigaki and UK/Japanese bassist Mao Yamada.
A welcome return to one of the best clubs in Kyushu. Simply put, a very warm, friendly and hip crowd.
Dorian Ford – piano
Mao Yamada – bass
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki – drums
5-7-5 Ikushi, Oita city, Oita
Trio at Cinema Theque, Saga, Japan
Distinctive and vibrant modern jazz in the classic piano trio format. An exciting UK – Japan collaboration featuring drum legend Yasuhiro Yoshigaki and UK/Japanese bassist Mao Yamada.
Continuing our tour in Kyushu. Looking forward to playing this date and keeping the music fresh and unexpected.
Dorian Ford – piano
Mao Yamada – bass
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki – drums
1-5-60 Otakara, Saga city, Saga
Trio at Jazz Inn Okura, Kumamoto, Japan
Distinctive and vibrant modern jazz in the classic piano trio format. An exciting UK – Japan collaboration featuring drum legend Yasuhiro Yoshigaki and UK/Japanese bassist Mao Yamada.
Jazz Inn Okura is where jazz fans in Kumamoto get together!
There are ten to twelve concerts a month, and on days without concerts, CDs or records are played in a classic, brick and wooden building.
Dorian Ford – piano
Mao Yamada – bass
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki – drums
1-12 Minami Tsuboi, Chuo Ward, Kumamoto
Trio at Umeda Always, Osaka, Japan
Distinctive and vibrant modern jazz in the classic piano trio format. An exciting UK – Japan collaboration featuring drum legend Yasuhiro Yoshigaki and UK/Japanese bassist Mao Yamada.
This eclectic, hip and happening club is right in the centre of Osaka, the big smoke! A quintessentially urban Japanese experience.
Dorian Ford – piano
Mao Yamada – bass
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki – drums
B1 Treck North Bld. 6-8 Nozaki-cho, Kita Ward, Osaka
Trio at 100 Ban Hall, Kobe, Japan
Distinctive and vibrant modern jazz in the classic piano trio format. An exciting UK – Japan collaboration featuring drum legend Yasuhiro Yoshigaki and UK/Japanese bassist Mao Yamada.
100BAN Hall (Hyakuban Hall) is a live music space located in a historical building in the foreign former settlement in Kobe. A very exciting and interesting music space where performers and audience can engage 100%.
Dorian Ford – piano
Mao Yamada – bass
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki – drums
2F Takasago Bad. 100 Edo-cho, Chuo ward, Kobe City
special session: Quartet at Satone, Osaka, Japan
Very pleased to be back at my favourite Osaka venue: Kishida’s Sotokuan (home of the present mind). The location may have changed, now at Satone, but the core aesthetic of peace, calm, focus and enquiry remain the same. Mao and I look forward to reuniting with guitar master Hiroyuki Tsutsui; this time with the addition of percussionist Masaaki Takano.
Dorian Ford – piano
Mao Yamada – bass
Hiroyuki Tsutsui – guitar
Masaaki Takano – percussion
B1 Empire Bld 1-4-11 Azuchi-machi, Chuo ward, Osaka
Duo at After Hours 1975, Tokyo, Japan
Distinctive and vibrant modern jazz in the intimate piano duo format. An exciting UK – Japan collaboration featuring UK/Japanese bassist Mao Yamada.
Looking forward to being back in Tokyo and playing at this imaginatively conceived venue; subtitled 1975, a coincidence? I think not! 1975 is of course the year of The Köln Concert recording which I interpreted in Tokyo at the beginning of this Japan 2024 tour.
Dorian Ford – piano
Mao Yamada – bass
2F, 3-21-1 Koenji kita, Suginami ward, Tokyo
Trio at Kirakudow, Tokyo, Japan
Distinctive and vibrant modern jazz in the classic piano trio format. An exciting UK – Japan collaboration featuring drum legend Yasuhiro Yoshigaki and UK/Japanese bassist Mao Yamada.
Kirakudow is a live music space located in a remarkable historic and classical building in Zelkova forest, Tokyo. So pleased to be returning to this space to finish our Japan 2024 tour. This is where performers and audience are free to travel in many directions and listen to all the voices with infinite patience and attention.
Dorian Ford – piano
Mao Yamada – bass
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki – drums
3-41-13 Hayamiya, Nerima Ward, Tokyo
Our Little Trio at Zedel
Here’s what the PR on OLT has to say:
Paying tribute to some of the most influential jazz trios of the 1950’s and 60’s, Our Little Trio takes its inspiration from the likes of Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson and Ahmad Jamal.
Working together for over 15 years, the trio has held several long-standing residencies. Its members are regulars at Ronnie Scott’s, The Jazz Cafe, the 606, Pizza Express and many more. The trio have just finished recording their second EP, to be released this summer.
Having delved deep into the music of the period – from the hits, to rare bootlegs and everything in between – Our Little Trio play a carefully curated repertoire of some of the most rhythmically and melodically compelling jazz of the 20th century.
Dorian Ford – Piano
Mao Yamada – Bass
Roy Pfeffer – Drums
20 Sherwood St, London W1F 7ED
Our Little Trio at Zedel
Here’s what the PR on OLT has to say:
Paying tribute to some of the most influential jazz trios of the 1950’s and 60’s, Our Little Trio takes its inspiration from the likes of Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson and Ahmad Jamal.
Working together for over 15 years, the trio has held several long-standing residencies. Its members are regulars at Ronnie Scott’s, The Jazz Cafe, the 606, Pizza Express and many more. The trio have just finished recording their second EP, to be released this summer.
Having delved deep into the music of the period – from the hits, to rare bootlegs and everything in between – Our Little Trio play a carefully curated repertoire of some of the most rhythmically and melodically compelling jazz of the 20th century.
Dorian Ford – Piano
Mao Yamada – Bass
Roy Pfeffer – Drums
20 Sherwood St, London W1F 7ED