"From Between Trio" Japan Tour 2006

Michel Doneda (ss, sopranino) from France
Jack Wright (as, ss)from U.S.A.
Tatsuya Nakatani (Percussion) from U.S.A./Japan

Schedule ::

February 15, Okayama @ Tenjinyama Bunka Plaza Hall
Guest: Koichi Akada(sax)
Tenjin Cho 8-54, Okayama-Shi, Okayama-ken
http://www.pref.okayama.jp/seikatsu/tenplaza/tenplaza.htm
Info: 090-4651-0836 akadax@kd5.so-net.ne.jp
General Admission: 2500Yen (adv), 3000 Yen (day),
For Student : 1000Yen (adv), 1500 Yen (day),
Open 18:30/Start 19:00

February 17, Osaka, @ Day service center "Sun"
Takemidai 2-1, Suita-Shi, Osaka-Fu
This is a private concert for lunch time at Nursing home in suita-shi, Osaka.
It's free event, but please make a call RSVP.
06-6873-7300 (japanese only) Or call Tatsuya's cell(090-9252-9345)

February 18, Tokushima, @ Ito Community center, Tokushima
Guest: Minoru Kawabata (Reeds)
Open Start by 18:30
General Admission: 2500 Yen
Admission for Student : 1000 Yen
information contact at 080-3262-7509 or ogaogan@mac.com

February 19, Kobe, Hyogo @ Jikouin
Open 15:30 / Start 16:00 (early evening show!!)
Shinohara Kitamachi 3-6-15
Admission: 2500 Yen
information contact at: 058-881-3971 (okimoto-san)
Produced by Sakai Jazz Club

February 20, Ageo, Saitama @ Barber Fuji
Open 18:30 / Start 19:30
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/barberfuji/
Admission: 5000 Yen/ Student 4000 Yen(w/ Student ID)
Information call at: Wataru Matsumoto 048-772-2175

February 21, Shinjuku, Tokyo @ Pit-in
Guest: Kazue Sawai(koto), Tetsu Saito(bass)
Accord bldg B1, Shinjuku 2-12-4, Shinjuku, Tokyo
http://www.pit-inn.com/
Open 19:30 / Start 20:00
Admission: 3000 Yen
Information call at: 03-3354-2024

February 22, Nagoya, Aichi @ Tokuzo
Guest: Yasuhiro Usui(guitar)
http://www.tokuzo.com/
Blue Star Bldg 2F, Imaike 1-6-8, Chigusa-Ku, Nagoya-Shi, Aichi
Information call at: 052-733-3709
Admission: 3000 Yen(Advanced), 3500 (Day)
**Advanced ticket start by January 1st, 2006

February 24, Yokohama, Kanagawa @ Air-Gin
W/ Exias-J ( Hideaki Kondo-Guitar, Takuo Tanikawa-Guitar+laptop
Jyun Kawasaki-Contrabass, Kanda Shinichiro-Piano)
Sumiyoshi cho 5-60, naka-ku, Yokohama shi, kanagawa
http://www.angel.ne.jp/~air-gin/Jazz/
Admission: 2500 Yen
Open 19:00 / Start 19:45
Information call at: 045-641-9191

February 25, Morioka, Iwate @ jazz spot Johnny
Guest: Onnyk(Guitar)
http://www.johnny-jazz.com
Admission: 2800 Yen(Advanced), 3000 Yen(Day)
Open 19:00 / Start 19:30
Information call at: 019-651-6151

Member Bio::

Michel Doneda

M. Doneda, soprano saxophone, born in 1954, comes from the French South-West. He is a self-taught musician.
In 1980 he founded in Toulouse a reed trio: HIC ET NUNC, a group that toured quite a lot in France, playing mostly improvised music. At the same time he founded with musicians, dancers and actors a place called IREA ( Institute for research and exchange between arts of improvisation).
In the following years, he participated in music projects with other artists and he became a regular guest of the Chantenay-Villedieu festival where he developed a very personal wayPhoto:
with his music and his instrument in improvised music. During this period he played with Europeans musicians: Fred Van Hove, Phil Wachsmann, Max Eastley, Steve Beresford and Americans: John Zorn, Eliott Sharp, Elvin Jones
In 1985 he made his first record under his own name: TERRA (nato record). A the same time he started playing regurlarly with Lê Quan Ninh, Daunik Lazro, Beñat Achiary, Martine Altenburger, Barre Phillips, Paul Rogers, Tetsu Saitoh, Kazue Sawai.

Photo: Patrick Fabre
The last years he developed his work with Keith Rowe, Gunter Muller, Bhob Rainey, Giuseppe Ielasi and dancers as Masaki Iwana, Yukiko Nakamura, Valérie Métivier and poets, actors.
Since then, he has been very involved in the international improvised music scene, toured in Africa, Japan, Asia, Canada, Russia and with a lot of improvisers in Europe.
In 1992 he founded in Toulouse with musicians, actors, poets, dancers the association: La Flibuste.
As of today he recorded almost 45 records for European, Americans and Japanese labels.

Jack Wright

Alto, soprano, tenor saxophones; contralto clarinet; piano

Born Pittsburgh PA in 1942 and grew up around Philadelphia and Chicago. He began playing saxophone in 1952, with private instruction; meanwhile also singing in groups large and small through 1964, after which he ceased playing music. Attended Lafayette College in Easton PA, where he studied European history and literature and graduated 1964; Johns Hopkins University, MA in European history, 1972; taught history at Temple U. 1968-72, after which he left the academic world. In this latter period he was involved in left politics, organizing on a community level.

In the late seventies he returned to music in earnest, and began playing free improvised music on the saxophone, and piano. He sought out partners in NY and the East Coast, then in 1983 began extensive tours in Europe, which continued until 1986. In the US his partners were Toshi Makihara, Jim Meneses, William Parker, Todd Whitman; in Europe he performed with Hannes Bauer, Joe Sachse, Wigald Boning, Lars Rudolph, Wittwulf Malik, Peter Hollinger, Bernhard Arndt, and Andreas Stehle, touring Germany, England, Switzerland and Italy. In 1984 he began touring the US, either as soloist or with his European partners, Roger Turner and Lars Rudolph, and an American dancer from Chicago, Bob Eisen. In this period of the eighties his music would be considered free jazz, very full and expressive. He was known for playing in places that had never been exposed to free improvisation, and encouraging young players everywhere, such that Davey Williams titled him the “Johnny Appleseed” of North American free improvisation.

In 1988 he moved to Boulder CO and got involved in painting and writing, continuing his private study of European literature and philosophy. Yet he continued playing, as a member of the local community of players, and touring the US regularly. In the late nineties there was a resurgence of interest in non-idiomatic free improvisation in the US, especially coming from Boston, but increasingly throughout the country. In 2000 Wright did an extensive tour of the West Coast with Boston soprano saxophonist Bhob Rainey, and recorded with him in three different groups. His music became largely sound-oriented, using space, texture, and sustained tones, but always with a characteristic energy and musicality. He moved back to the East Coast in 2003 to be closer to his playing partners and now lives in Easton PA. Since then he has become closely involved with the New York scene.

He has presented his music at most of the new improv festivals in the US: four years at High Zero in Baltimore, The Seattle Improv Festival, the SFALT Festival in the Bay Area, California, the Autumn Uprising in Boston, and the Improvised and Otherwise Festival in Brooklyn. In recent years he has renewed his label, Spring Garden Music, which presents his own music and that of his partners. He continues to seek out new partners, and in 2002 returned to Europe to that end, performing with John Butcher, Tony Wren, John Russell, Birgit Uhler, Axel Doerner, Carl-Ludwig Huebsch, Thomas Lehn, LeQuan Ninh, and Michel Doneda. He also played privately with Tim Hodgkinson, Uli Phillipp, Wolfgang Schliemann, Martin Theurer, Andrea Neumann, Michael Griener, Sabine Vogel, and Phil Durrant, among others.
His most recent tours have been with Carol Genetti, vocalist, and Jon Mueller, perc.; French soprano sax player Michel Doneda and NYC percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani in France and the US (21 performances); and in the US, cellist Bob Marsh of the Bay area; in Europe with Nate Wooley, trumpet, of NY (Jersey City, NJ), Michael Griener percussion and Sabine Vogel flute of Berlin; Reuben Radding, NYC bassist; Phil Durrant, English laptop musician; trumpet player Tom Djll from Oakland and soprano sax player Bhob Rainey.

Wright has partners in most major cities of the US, with whom he plays on his tours, over sixty musicians with whom he is developing music. Among those of the past two years are: Ricardo Arias, balloons, NYC; John Berndt, saxes and elect., Baltimore; Mike Bullock, bass, Boston; John Dikeman, tenor sax, Philadelphia/Cairo Egypt; Tom Djll, tpt, Oakland CA; Andrew Drury, percussion, NYC; Lisle Ellis, bass, San Diego; Bob Falesch, computer elect., keyboard, Chicago; Carol Genetti, voice, Chicago; Morgan Guberman, bass, voice, Oakland; Andy Hayleck, bowed cymbals, Baltimore; Katt Hernandez, violin, Boston; Kurt Heyl, tbn, Cerillos NM; Matt Ingalls, reeds, computer elect., Oakland; Greg Kelley, tpt, Boston; Andrew Lafkas, bass, NYC; Fred Lonberg-Holm, cello, Chicago; Toshi Makihara, dr, Phila.; Bob Marsh, cello, voice, violin, El Cerrito CA; Wade Matthews, bass cl., flute, electr., Madrid Spain; Jon Mueller, perc., Milwaukee WI; Tatsuya Nakatani, dr, NYC; Paul Neidhardt, percussion, Baltimore; Tari Nelson-Zagar, violin, Seattle; Mike Pride, dr, Brooklyn; Reuben Radding, bass, NYC; Bhob Rainey, sop sax, Boston; Vic Rawlings, cello, elect., Boston; Eric Rosenthal, perc, Boston; John Shiurba, g, Oakland; Wally Shoup, sax, Seattle; Matt Weston, perc, Easthampton, MA; Fritz Welch, percussion, NYC; Nate Wooley, tpt, Jersey City; Ben Wright, bass, Questa NM; Michael Zerang, perc, Chicago

A recent review in a German publication, Bad Alchemy, had this to say: “Wright does not make music, he embodies it, he transforms it with a naiveté of another order. It grows into a sound river, he is part of the diaphragm through which the heterogeneous whispers.”

Tatsuya Nakatani
Originally from Kobe and Osaka, Japan, Tatsuya Nakatani has resided
in the USA since 1995. He had been based in New York City for four years, but now resides in Easton, PA. He has been recognized as a key player in New York's ever-burgeoning creative music scene. His music often defies category or genre and is broadly influenced by various cultures as well as improvised music, experimental music, jazz, free Jazz, and rock.
An intense freedom combined with impeccable sensitivity and depth of thought characterizes his approach. He is widely recognized and sought out as a solo and ensemble performer. His elements of percussion are drum set, gong, cymbal, singing bowls, pieces of metal objects, various sticks and bows. In addition to live performances, he provides sound design for television and film, and collaborates regularly with dancers and visual artists. Nakatani has established an independent record label and recording studio “H&HPRODUCTION” from where he dispatches his music creations to the rest of the world. He has been a recipient of the New York, Bronx Art council individual artist grant.

Press Contact::

Please contact Tatsuya Nakatani at tatsuyanakatani@rcn.com Also you could reach us by cell phone during tour 090-9252-9345

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