Keiko Matsui Moyo CD

Moyo Music

List Price	$13.96 (You save $1.57)
Category	Rock/Pop Albums, Jazz CDs, Jazz Instrument, Latin
Label	Sony Wonder
Orig Year	2007
All Time Sales Rank	17331
CD Universe Part number	7398711
Catalog number	31047
Discs	1
Release Date	Apr 24, 2007
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Producer	Keiko Matsui
Personnel	Derek Nakamoto - synthesizer, programming Keiko Matsui - piano Akira Jimbo - drums Also: Gerald Albright, Hugh Masekela, Paul Taylor, Richard Bona, Paul Taylor, Waldemar Bastos

Keiko Matsui Moyo Songs

1.	Moyo (Heart & Soul)	$0.99
2.	Great Romance, A	$0.99
3.	Into the Night	$0.99
4.	Caricias	$0.99
5.	Evening in Gibraltar, An	$0.99
6.	When I Close My Eyes	$0.99
7.	After the Rain	$0.99
8.	Allure	$0.99
9.	Black River	$0.99
10.	Old Potch Road	$0.99
11.	Um Novo Dia (A New Day)	$0.99
12.	Marula	$0.99

Moyo Music Review

Average Rating: (4.3 out of 5 stars) 4.5 stars

3 stars Disappointed
Nowhere near as good as her earlier works. What happened to Deep Blue standards?
Submitted by Headbangers R Us (Plano, TX)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful.

5 stars Great!
A New Keiko album for '07. This one is produced by Keiko, and is uninfluenced by her former husband, Kazu. Quote from the liner notes: "this album is Keiko's boldest departure yet." The piano playing is pure Keiko and is perfection. It is a beautiful album. If you are a Keiko fan, you already own this. It paints pictures in my mind when listening.
Submitted by JohnQ118 (SA Bay Area, California, USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No

5 stars Her Best Yet
I've always like Keiko's music; however this is a really a must have CD!
Submitted by Lou H (San Francisco, CA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No

Have you heard this album?

To buy, Click on price to add to cart

Also Bought

Keiko Matsui Walls Of Akendora CD (2005) Bonus DVD

Moyo album

$14.45

Although her press materials since 2000 have trumpeted her two wins as "Best Female Artist" at the National Smooth Jazz Awards, the brilliant Japanese-born keyboardist and composer is secure enough in her genius, spirituality, and vast popularity (1.2 million units sold to date) that she never limits herself to one genre. Her recent Narada albums have been a happily unpredictable mixed bag, with 2002's The Ring exploring her new age and classical influences and 2004's Wildflower going in a worldbeat direction, no doubt in connection with her charitable efforts on behalf of the U.N.'s World Food Program in Africa. Matsui fanatics will no doubt be jumping all over maps of her homeland looking for a place called "Akendora," but it's a place of her own creation, where she runs to spend contemplative moments and find ...

Also Bought

Brian Culbertson It's On Tonight CD (2005)

Moyo CD music

$11.99

With its seething, laid-back funk beats and steamy lyrics full of obvious references to romantic trysts, it doesn't get any sexier than Brian Culbertson's IT'S ON TONIGHT. A number of prominent crossover jazz artist lend their talents here. For example, the downtempo title track features a sensual R&B vocal from singer Will Downing. Later, saxophonist Boney James' mellifluous lines become the focus of "The Way You Feel." On "Secret Affair," relative newcomer Chris Botti plays Miles Davis-influenced riffs over a spacious one-chord ...

Also Bought

Peter White Playin Favorites CD (2006)

Moyo music CDs

$8.99

For his tenth full-length album, Playin' Favourites, British smooth jazz giant Peter White decided to, as the title suggests, turn to some of his favorite tracks from the '60s, '70s, and '80s, giving each of them his own interpretation (he did a similar thing in 1994's Reflections). Working with longtime producer Paul Brown, as well as musicians Boney James, Rick Braun, and Dave Camp, among others, White successfully turns the 11 songs on Playin' Favourites into instant crossover jazz hits. Mainly this means adding horns and keyboards to the background while the guitarist lithely moves around from the melody into lush improvisationally based solos, rendering them much slicker and smoother than they were before (although granted, he didn't have to do much to turn Bacharach's James Bond classic "The Look of Love" into something so adult contemporary). ...

Also Bought

Paul Brown White Sand CD (2007)

Moyo songs

$11.25

Smooth jazz producer, arranger, and songwriter Paul Brown made the transition to recording artist with 2004's Up Front, which, like its successor, 2005's The City, was a Top Ten hit on the Contemporary Jazz chart. With a switch from GRP to Peak Records, Brown should continue his popular ways with his third solo album White Sand. He has enlisted more guests than usual this time, to the point that the disc is practically one of those "and friends" duets collections. Al Jarreau sings on "Make Me Feel So Good," Bobby Caldwell on a cover of "Mercy Mercy Mercy," and Lina on a cover of "I Say a Little Prayer." Among the star instrumentalists, Boney James is heard on "Ol' Skoolin'," David Benoit on "R 'n' B Bump," Euge Groove on "More or Less Paul," Rick Braun on "Mr. Cool," and saxophone newcomer Jessy J on the title track. The guests simply augment the contributions of the leader, however; Brown's guitar is a dominant instrument, and he has a ...

Also Bought

Four80East En Route CD (2007)

Moyo album

$14.65

The line that separates jazz-electronica from "smooth jazz" (or, let's be honest, from plain old easy listening) can be a treacherously thin one. It's the line that separates Weather Report from, say, Spyro Gyra, and many artists drawn to that borderland end up becoming forever lost in the shifting sands of watered-down funk grooves and wind chimes. Four80East navigate the line ...

Also Bought

Euge Groove Born 2 Groove CD (2007)

Moyo CD music

$11.29

Nestor Torres Burning Whispers CD (1994)

Moyo music CDs

$5.69

Fred Hersch Thelonious CD (1997)

Moyo songs

$15.05

Craig Taborn Light Made Lighter CD (2001)

Moyo album

$14.49

The second album by Michigan jazz pianist Craig Taborn -- known to most jazz fans as a sideman to James Carter -- is a giant leap past the adept musicianship shown on his DIW debut. Taborn's trio, with drummer extraordinaire Gerald Cleaver and new bassist Chris Lightcap, plays a kind of jazz that's new in a sense, even though it is rooted in time-honored traditions. In Taborn's pianism, Andrew Hill and Randy Weston meet Duke Pearson, Horace Silver, and Hilton Ruiz. There is an elegance of concentration and presentation that exceeds rhythmic and stylistic rigidities. The opener, "Bodies We Came Out Of" (which opens and closes the album, making the entire presentation a kind of suite), echoes the opening bars of "Don't Stop the Carnival" before it moves through Latin phrasings and textures into a modal openness that shifts toward a funkier, dirtier kind of blues. In a blazing time signature, Taborn layers sevenths and ninths over augmented minor chords and plays as rhythmically as Cleaver. Lightcap, for his part, doesn't just keep it on track; he insures the entire thing sings by moving the track toward Cleaver, who juices the rhythm and double-times Taborn. But in his solo, Taborn leaves the melody and undoes the harmony, filling it with legato phrasing and ...