New York efficiency venue The City Corridor lists a jazz live performance for composer and carry out Yoko Kanno on the venue on March 29, 2025. The live performance will function Logan Richardson and his Blues Individuals Massive Bang group.
Yoko Kanno is maybe greatest recognized for her work on the soundtracks for Cowboy Bebop and lots of entries within the Macross sequence. Her work on a number of jazz sub-genres within the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack has given her a popularity as a jazz composer, however her work spans a number of genres, together with rock and classical. She scored Macross Plus, which has quite a few digital and classically impressed compositions, and did the identical for Macross Frontier. She has collaborated with director Shōji Kawamori not solely on Macross, but additionally in Arjuna and his Aquarion franchise. Her collaboration with director Shinichiro Watanabe stretches from Cowboy Bebop to Terror in Resonance and Space Dandy, in addition to Kids on the Slope, the place she as soon as once more exercised her jazz composition in a narrative about aspiring jazz musicians.
She can be recognized for a long-time collaboration with singer Maaya Sakamoto. Kanno comosed Sakamoto’s debut single “Yakusoku wa Iranai,” which Sakamoto sang when she was solely 16 years previous. The music served because the well-known opening music for The Vision of Escaflowne anime, for which Kanno additionally composed the soundtrack, and Sakamoto additionally carried out because the lead character Hitomi. Kanno was the unique composer for Sakamoto’s information till 2003 (although they often collaborated afterward), and composed lots of Sakamoto’s subsequent fashionable songs, together with “Platinum” (from Card Captor Sakura), “Hemisphere” (from RahXephon), “Gravity” (from Wolf’s Rain), and “Triangler” (from Macross Frontier), the latter three of which additionally that includes in exhibits the place Kanno composed the soundtrack.
Supply: The Town Hall
