Ai Kuwabara, Shun Ishiwaka – Dear Family (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ai Kuwabara, Shun Ishiwaka – Dear Family (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:42 minutes | 977 MB | Genre: Jazz
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This dynamic and conceptful album is a collaboration between two Japanese musicians – Jazz pianist Ai Kuwabara and drummer Shun Ishiwaka. Even though the intriguing personality collides with each other, it resonates and it is finished in a concept album with a feeling of liveliness full of energy full that could only be formed by these two people.

The title of the album, “Dear Family” has been appointed as the opening theme of TV Asahi’s news program “Saturday Station” & “Sunday Station” started this April in Japan.

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Ai Kuwabara The Project – To The End Of This World (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ai Kuwabara The Project – To The End Of This World (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:38 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Debut album from modern jazz pianist, Ai Kuwabara, and her trio, The Project. The music blends contemporary jazz with elements of rock and fusion.

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Ai Kuwabara, Steve Gadd, Will Lee – Live At Blue Note Tokyo (Live) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Ai Kuwabara, Steve Gadd, Will Lee – Live At Blue Note Tokyo (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:38 minutes | 803 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UNIVERSAL MUSIC LLC

Ai Shinohara just released August 22nd with the latest work “To The End Of This World” which co-starred with the up-and-coming creators. A dream team by her and Will Lee and Steve Gadd returned to Blue Note Tokyo after a year and three months. For Sugawara, Will and Gadd have been super heroes since she opened her eyes on jazz and fusion when she was in elementary school. I was fascinated by their performance hundreds of times with records, CDs, videos, live, etc. I dreamed that I could play with them someday. That was the first time in February 2017. This live, in addition to the numbers from the commemorative album ‘Somehow, Someday, Somewhere’, is a stage more than the last time from the last time to the original written down and the cover song surprisingly surprised.

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Ai Kuwabara – Opera (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ai Kuwabara – Opera (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:55 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UNIVERSAL MUSIC LLC

Kuwabara was born on September 21, 1991, the youngest of three girls. Older sisters Yu and Mako are also musical, and it was Mako who introduced Ai to her current musical partner Yusuke Morita, who was her classmate at the Tokyo College of Music.Kuwabara graduated from the Music Department at Senzoku Gakuen High School as a jazz piano major in 2010. She studied piano under Yuki Arimasa, Yoko Yamashita, and Kazune Zaima. She has won many awards including gold medals at the All-Japan Yamaha Electone Contest,[4] for both the lower elementary division and the upper elementary division. She has performed at the UNICEF Charity Concert and International Junior Original Concert. She was featured in AERA magazine as a “Genius Electone Girl.” In the middle of junior high school, she switched to playing the piano.She is 5ft 7in.

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