Riyoko's channel: youtube.com/@riyopiano website: riyoko.jp Riyoko's sheet music PDF purchase link: coming soon. All proceeds go directly to Riyoko. This is a transcription of tail-end (solo, chorus, finale solos) of Riyoko's original 'Aozora' ('Blue Sky') as recorded on 30 July 2012 at Motion Blue Yokohama - the earliest available recording of 'Aozora' performed by Riyoko's quartet. Yusuke Shima is on trumpet, Shotaro Tamaki is on bass, and Daisuke Yoshioka is on drums. 'Aozora' is available on Riyoko's 'Jewelry Box' (2022) album in piano trio format th-cam.com/video/d_AJiNtruKo/w-d-xo.html Full 10-minute performance: th-cam.com/video/RDO_7iNDfxo/w-d-xo.html For this upload I cut out the first 5 minutes (intro, calmer trumpet and piano solos) and jumped straight to the spicy parts in the middle. Original performance on Riyoko's channel: th-cam.com/video/v0GORYM6CS8/w-d-xo.html Transcribed by Grant at tunescribers.com Riyoko is a world-class Japanese Jazz pianist and composer who isn't bound by a single genre or style and has crossed classical, traditional Japanese, pop, EDM, and anime genre boundaries and styles in her compositions, arrangements, and performances. She's a classically trained prodigy and has been playing piano since age 4 and for well over 3 decades, latter 2 of which she dedicated to Jazz. She's renowned for her musicality, deep harmonic understanding, live performances full of energy with fluent improvisations, and delicate touch on the keys. Together with her talent and charming character she continues to proliferate Jazz and attract many fans from all over the world. You can learn more about Riyoko and sample more of her music from playlists on my channel home. Riyoko doesn't really make short clips of her music and a lot of her music and performances are missing from her own channel due to Japanese copyright laws, where venues own all the rights to recordings on their premises. Because of that Riyoko can't freely share a lot of her music with us. But an artist like this should be shared with the world, so I'm making it rain on my channels.
0:00 Aozora Blue Sky (Riyoko) - improvised piano solo 1:13 Aozora Blue Sky (Riyoko) - chorus 2:02 Aozora Blue Sky (Riyoko) - transition 3:00 Aozora Blue Sky (Riyoko) - improvised piano and trumpet solo exchange 4:23 Aozora Blue Sky (Riyoko) - finale
Riyoko's channel: youtube.com/@riyopiano website: riyoko.jp
Riyoko's sheet music PDF purchase link: coming soon. All proceeds go directly to Riyoko.
This is a transcription of tail-end (solo, chorus, finale solos) of Riyoko's original 'Aozora' ('Blue Sky') as recorded on 30 July 2012 at Motion Blue Yokohama - the earliest available recording of 'Aozora' performed by Riyoko's quartet. Yusuke Shima is on trumpet, Shotaro Tamaki is on bass, and Daisuke Yoshioka is on drums. 'Aozora' is available on Riyoko's 'Jewelry Box' (2022) album in piano trio format th-cam.com/video/d_AJiNtruKo/w-d-xo.html Full 10-minute performance: th-cam.com/video/RDO_7iNDfxo/w-d-xo.html For this upload I cut out the first 5 minutes (intro, calmer trumpet and piano solos) and jumped straight to the spicy parts in the middle. Original performance on Riyoko's channel: th-cam.com/video/v0GORYM6CS8/w-d-xo.html Transcribed by Grant at tunescribers.com
Riyoko is a world-class Japanese Jazz pianist and composer who isn't bound by a single genre or style and has crossed classical, traditional Japanese, pop, EDM, and anime genre boundaries and styles in her compositions, arrangements, and performances. She's a classically trained prodigy and has been playing piano since age 4 and for well over 3 decades, latter 2 of which she dedicated to Jazz. She's renowned for her musicality, deep harmonic understanding, live performances full of energy with fluent improvisations, and delicate touch on the keys. Together with her talent and charming character she continues to proliferate Jazz and attract many fans from all over the world.
You can learn more about Riyoko and sample more of her music from playlists on my channel home. Riyoko doesn't really make short clips of her music and a lot of her music and performances are missing from her own channel due to Japanese copyright laws, where venues own all the rights to recordings on their premises. Because of that Riyoko can't freely share a lot of her music with us. But an artist like this should be shared with the world, so I'm making it rain on my channels.
0:00 Aozora Blue Sky (Riyoko) - improvised piano solo
1:13 Aozora Blue Sky (Riyoko) - chorus
2:02 Aozora Blue Sky (Riyoko) - transition
3:00 Aozora Blue Sky (Riyoko) - improvised piano and trumpet solo exchange
4:23 Aozora Blue Sky (Riyoko) - finale