Thursday, July 10, 2008

22. LIVE IN TOKYO

My dear Japanese friends,

June 26 and June 27 have been really 2 exciting nights in Tokyo for Esaogno and me.

For me it has been a great pleasure to be back in Tokyo, at STB 139 where I played a couple of years ago with C3 (with Furio Chirico and Roberto Cassetta).

For Esagono it has been a real pleasure to play there their first concerts in japan!



We all thank you Naouju Nakamura (and his passion) for this opportunity (Naoju is with us on the photo).

STB 139 is really a nice place, with its own "mood" that really invites musicians to give their best. The stuff is very efficient, alert and friendly, and, in a few words: "we love STB 139".

I fell in love almost immediately with the Great Grand Piano Yamaha C7 that's stably at the club, and Esagono found really what they had been asking for.

Personally I want to thank you Yamamoto Kaoru, for her highly professional, detailed and rich interview she gave me for her space on "A TASTE OF JAZZ".

Esagono and I thank you so much Fujiino Sakai, of "Moridaira Musica Inst, Co, LTD." for help and for supplying Warwick amps, Clavier keyboard and more for the show.

And we we're glad and honored to se, at our second concert, Mrs. Anna Cenerini Bova (Embassy of Italy in Japan).

...and I personally thank Tatsurou Ueda, Hiroshi Nagano, Yoko and all the friends at last night party... I wouldn't have ever said that I would have danced argentine tango with a very nice Japanese girl during these days in Tokyo!

And a very special thank you to Horiuchi (D Wonderland). The day after the concert I was almost captured by the beauty and the "mood"
I've found in.

So at the end, simply, everything was really ok, sincerely we loved to play, we loved the food, we loved the place (thank you to Ibis hotel as well) and thank you from our heart to all of you, dear Japanese friends.

In my next Blog, photos and video link from the concert.

In the meantime, stay happy,

Beppe

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