CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\u00a0invites you to an\u00a0intimate solo set of Latin jazz and original compositions by pianist\/composer\/arranger Chiemi Nakai. Bursting with Afro-Cuban rhythms and Japanese-influenced sympathetic melodies, her music expresses a profound joy that is by turns hot and reflective. Suggested donation $15.
\nImmediately preceding\u00a0the concert, from 4:30 \u2013 6:30 pm,\u00a0you are invited to join us for an\u00a0Opening Reception with wine with\u00a0painter Marianne Gunther, whose work will be on exhibit at CRS in January and February.
\nA native of Japan, pianist\/composer\/arranger Chiemi Nakai\u00a0began classical training at a young age\u00a0and moved in the direction of jazz, Afro-Cuban music and salsa. Her talents were recognized early by some heavy hitters such as Albert \u201cToottie\u201d Heath in 1992.
\nIn 1993, she began to play in \u201cMamborama,\u201d \u2014\u00a0led by Yoshi Yamada(b) \u2014\u00a0which is the most remarkable Latin jazz & salsa group in Osaka, and joined its recording work in 1997 (\u201cJaponismo\u201d).\u00a0
\nShe came to NYC in 1998 to expand her music career and in 2000\u00a0entered Aaron Copland School of Music\/Queens College to study big band jazz arrangement under Michael Phillip Mossman (tp). There she also took lessons under Sir Roland Hanna (p). She graduated Queens College\/M.A. Jazz Performance in 2002.
\nIn 2002, she joined Jimmy Bosch (tb) band, and also played with \u201cOmi Odara\u201d and Juan Carlos Formell (b), \u201cThe Cuban Mission\u201d which combines Juan\u2019s compositions with Afro-Cuban folk.
\nIn 2006, she performed at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall with Carlos del Pino(b) Cuban project, which collaborates with the music of Cuban contemporary music composer Miss Tania Leon.
\nSince 2002 she has been a band leader of “Chiemi Nakai the Afro-Cuban Jazz Project” and playing at several clubs in NYC such as Blue Note, Jazz at Kitano, Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe, Willie\u2019s steak house and so on. Their first album \u201cbridges\u201d was released in March 2008 and was nominated as one of “Next Generation Artist” CDs in the Latin Jazz Corner Best Latin Jazz of 2008 Award. Moreover, it was selected as one of the Top 6 Latin Jazz CDs of Diskunion Japan \/Union Award 2008.\u00a0In 2013\u00a0she released a piano trio album called “Transformation.\u201d She is currently finishing up a new album to be released in 2015.
\nhttp:\/\/www.chieminakainy.com
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