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The title of pianist/composer Kazuko Baba’s debut recording means love in Japanese, and the power of love—both romantic love and the love of jazz that brought her to New York from her native Japan—play a significant role in her compositions. “It’s all indicative of a love that dares speak its name, and unabashedly so,” writes journalist K. Leander Williams in the liner notes. “It’s not just the compositions here that show her burgeoning prowess, though; it’s also what she gets her rhythm section to do with them.” |
