ReRooted – Ep. 48 – Playful Progressions with Miki Yamanaka

Francesca Maximé – ReRooted – Ep. 48 – Playful Progressions with Miki Yamanaka March 27, 2021 | No Comments Cover Image ReRooted with Francesca Maximé Ep. 48 – Playful Progressions with Miki Yamanaka SHARE SUBSCRIBE Apple Podcasts CastBox Google Podcasts iHeartRadio Pocket Casts Stitcher RSS DOWNLOAD DESCRIPTION 00:00 / 48:39 Jazz pianist, Miki Yamanaka, joins Francesca to share about her musical upbringing, food as spirituality, Asian allyship, and how play makes perfect. Jazz pianist, Miki Yamanaka, joins Francesca to share about her musical upbringing, food as spirituality, Asian allyship, and how play makes perfect. Miki Yamanaka is a New York-based pianist from Kobe, Japan. She moved to New York City in 2012 and has studied Piano with Jason Lindner, Jeb Patton, and Fred Hersch, and Organ with Sam Yahel and Larry Goldings. In 2015 she was one of three pianists selected to participate in “Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead”, an intensive composition residency at the Kennedy Center. She earned her Master of Music degree from Queens College, receiving the Sir Roland Hanna Award. She holds residencies at Smalls and Mezzrow Jazz Clubs in NYC, and is the current pianist in the Philip Harper Quintet, the Roxy Coss Quintet, and the Antonio Hart Group. One of her newest compositions is a 5-part suite entitled “Human Dust Suite.” For more information, please visit MikiYamanaka.com Natural Progression: Music & Practice Continuing tapping her deep well of joyful, mindful, creatives on the ReRooted podcast, Francesca welcomes extraordinary jazz pianist, Miki Yamanaka. Invited to share her story, Miki describes her upbringing in Japan, her musical training, the natural progression to playing for money, and then her giant leap across the pond to New York in 2012, where her career as a musician would fully blossom. For a sampling of her improvisational prowess which sparked the interview, check out this Miki Yamanaka Trio livestream. “There is spiritual practice, musical practice, athletic practice, mind, body