Jonathan Katz

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Released: May 31, 2007

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Continuance
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YNM
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Softly As In....
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In My Life
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Well You Needn't
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Genre: Japanese Classic Music / Jazz / Latin
Location Kunitachi-shi, Tokyo, US
Profile Views: 17834
Last Login: 10/28/2011
Member Since 5/31/2007
Website http://www.jkatz.net
Record Label Unsigned
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JONATHAN KATZ - Pianist, composer, arranger, music educator - New York native Jonathan studied French horn with Paul Ingraham at Yale University and jazz piano and composition with Bill Dobbins at the Eastman School of Music. After studying Japanese language at Sophia University on a fellowship from Yale, he moved to Tokyo in 1991. Since then, Jonathan has documented his lyrical and effervescently swinging piano sound, deeply personal arrangements and original compositions on three critically acclaimed CDs as a trio leader, and worked as pianist in the bands of Ray Brown, Lew Tabackin, Joe Lee Wilson and Eddie Henderson. He is also musical director of the jazz world music group CANDELA (www.candelatokyo.com). Jonathan's duo with CANDELA's leader, shakuhachi innovator Bruce Huebner has also toured Japan and Europe, and CANDELA has toured North America twice, making its international debut at the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival and Joe's Pub in New York in June 2003, and visiting New York again in 2004 to play at the Blue Note and record their 2nd CD RISE ABOVE. In 2003, Jonathan began a cross-Pacific collaboration with alto saxophonist Dave Pietro (Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra) and top Japanese musicians Daiki Yasukagawa (bass) and Yoshihito Eto (drums), called the New York-Tokyo Connection (NYTC) that has toured the U.S. and Japan. Jonathan has also performed with several of Japan’s top symphony orchestras, often under the baton of maestro Bob Sakuma, including the NHK Symphony (with Itsuki Hiroshi), the Tokyo Philharmonic (BS2 TV’s “Fuyu no Sonata Classic Concert”), the New Japan Philharmonic (TV Asahi’s “Daimei no Nai Ongakukai”), and the Tokyo Metropolitan Philharmonic (Special Pops Concert at Orchard Hall). Jonathan has recently turned his attention to big band arranging, and currently leads his own 19-piece group, the Tokyo Big Band, which features top jazz musicians on the Tokyo scene. His latest CD is HAPPY TALK, a duo with vocalist Andrea Hopkins. E-mail: jonathan@jkatz.net Website: http//www.jkatz.net
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Tokyo Big Band - LIGHT ONE .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Tokyo Big Band - Haru No Ogawa .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Tokyo Big Band - Let's Decide .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Eddie Henderson - Sweet Love of Mine .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Bruce Huebner & Jonathan Katz - Softly As In A Morning Sunrise .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Influences
Fats Waller, Bud Powell, Erroll Garner, Horace Silver, Red Garland, Bobby Timmons, Sonny Clark, Wynton Kelly, Dave McKenna, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Bill Evans, Richie Beirach, etc. etc. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Stravinsky, etc. etc. etc. Julius Watkins, John Clark, Tom Varner, etc. The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Led Zepellin, Gumby Theater, Inity, Brailehouse, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Rufus T. Firefly, Ralph Kramden, Oscar Madison, Felix Unger, Basil Fawlty, Benny Hill, Monty Python, etc. etc.
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Oct 28

Jonathan Katz

Still grooving at the Park Hyatt New York Bar (the Lost in Translation lounge). Nov. 8th is the last night so there's not much time to check out the high-energy jazz, Brazilian and pop stylings of our group including Karen Jones (voice), Brent Nussey (bass), and Tod Carver (guitar). Gotta get to work on TBB arrangements and music for the Mambo Inn gig on November 9th. Also thinking of resurrecting my arrangement of Chick Corea Children's Songs for brass quintet. So much to do, so little time.
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Oct 12

Jonathan Katz

Still Lost in Translation at the New York Bar. It's been 8 weeks, 4 left to go. The band are really enjoying ourselves.
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Aug 17

Jonathan Katz
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Contemplation
by John Mackey

See What Happens
by John Mackey

Pressure Cooker
by John Mackey
- Aug 17