Frames Miho Hazama

• 1 And the Door Unsealed 07:41
• 2 Rondo 08:57
• 3 LuLu 10:07
• 4 The Pioneer's Quest 07:06
• 5 Aura II 10:37
• 6 The First Notes 08:18
• Total Runtime 52:46

Info zu Frames

“Songs from my life, recently recorded, create a music montage with no beginnings or endings.” — NY On his new album, BEFORE AND AFTER, Young has approached a totally eclectic collection of mostly obscure songs like a painter with a new palette. Picking from a vast array of his originals, Young chooses favorites from his playbook like a trip into his music history and performs them mostly alone, taking a solo acoustic journey to a new place. Each of the songs blend and create one continuous flow, clocking in at a 48-minute pure and intimate listening experience. Produced by Lou Adler and Neil Young and mixed by Young and Niko Bolas, aka The Volume Dealers, this is unlike any other album he has released to date. Young describes BEFORE AND AFTER succinctly: “The feeling is captured, not in pieces, but as a whole piece — designed to be listened to that way. This music presentation defies shuffling, digital organization, separation. Only for listening. That says it all”. New versions of the songs themselves seamlessly move and morph with mesmerizing clarity, beginning with his earliest Buffalo Springfield appearance, "Burned," to the recent "Don't Forget Love" (from 2021’s BARN) and including the previously unreleased song “If You Got Love”. BEFORE AND AFTER will be available in four formats: vinyl LP; clear vinyl LP (Limited Edition)), Blu-Ray disc featuring Atmos mix, Binaural mix and Hi-Res 96/24 stereo; as well as Compact Disc. Frames is the new album and Miho Hazama’s fourth release on Edition, reinforcing her standing as a composer and conductor of international recognition. 1.354 „Frames“ ist das neue Album und Miho Hazamas vierte Veröffentlichung bei Edition, die ihren Ruf als international anerkannte Komponistin und Dirigentin festigt. Die in New York lebende Hazama hat sich durch detaillierte Kompositionen für große Ensembles, langfristiges musikalisches Denken und ausdrucksstarke Orchestrierung einen Namen gemacht. Ihre Arbeit führt sie durch Japan, Europa und die USA, mit Projekten für das Norwegische Radio-Orchester, das BBC Concert Orchestra, die Danish Radio Big Band und das Metropole Orkest. Mit ihrem bestätigten Debüt bei den BBC Proms 2025 gewinnt ihre kompositorische Stimme stetig an Umfang und Ausdruckskraft – Qualitäten, die in „Frames“ deutlich zum Ausdruck kommen. Das Album führt sie zurück zur engen Zusammenarbeit mit der Danish Radio Big Band und knüpft damit an die kreative Partnerschaft an, die mit ihrem Edition-Debüt „Imaginary Visions“ (2021) begann.

Auf „Frames“ setzt sich Hazama direkt mit der Geschichte der Band auseinander und lässt sich von den musikalischen Leitern inspirieren, die ihre Identität über Jahrzehnte geprägt haben – Ib Glindemann, Ray Pitts, Palle Mikkelborg, Thad Jones, Ole Kock Hansen, Bob Brookmeyer und Jim McNeely, dessen Tod dem Projekt eine stille Bedeutung verleiht. Es sind deren Einflüsse, die Hazama als Grundlage für ihre eigenen Kompositionen nutzt. Das Ergebnis ist ein Werk, das zwar in der Tradition der Band verwurzelt ist, aber dennoch unverkennbar Hazamas eigene Handschrift trägt: komponiert mit Klarheit, Selbstbewusstsein und einer internationalen Perspektive.

Danish Radio Big Band
Miho Hazama, Dirigent

Miho Hazama
Grammy-nominated composer, Miho Hazama is one of the most promising and talented composers/arrangers of her generation. Lauded in Downbeat as one of “25 for the Future”, Miho developed her signature jazz chamber orchestra “m_unit”. Now having 3 full length releases on Universal Music Japan/ Sunnyside Records, Miho has written for and expertly showcased the abilities of guest artists such as Joshua Redman, Lionel Loueke, Stefon Harris, and Gil Goldstein, to name a few. Her debut album “Journey to Journey” received the Jazz JAPAN rising star award, and she has been featured in such influential publications as Downbeat, The New York Times, NPR, JazzTimes among others.

Composition is her true calling, and in addition to her effort with m_unit, she has created works for many different musical contexts. Most notably, she has composed for Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Ashley Bouder Project Ballet Company, Yamaha Symphonic Band, to name a few. Miho became a composer in residence of Siena Wind Orchestra in 2017, and she is a composer of the year 2019 of Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa.

In 2019, Miho took up a post as the chief conductor of Danish Radio Big Band after Thad Jones, Bob Brookmeyer and Jim McNeely, to name a few. Besides DR Big Band, Miho has worked as a conductor with Metropole Orkest, WDR Big Band and Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra, to name a few. She is also the Associate Artistic Director of the New York Jazzharmonic.

As an arranger, Miho has worked for many ensembles for concerts, recordings, television and film, including Metropole Orkest, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Vince Mendoza, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Shiro Sagisu and many more.

Miho’s awards and honors include the Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize (2015), 24th Idemitsu Music Award (2014), ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award (2011), and she was a Scholarship Recipient of the Manhattan School of Music (2010). She has a degree in classical composition from the Kunitachi College of Music and a masters degree in jazz composition from the Manhattan School of Music, and was honored by the Scholarship Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs. “…quickly became a talked-about writer and arranger.” - The New York Times

“...classy large ensemble that keeps the listener guessing and enchanted...something is always lurking and ready to pounce; then skitter away again.” - Jazz Times

“At a time when orchestral jazz is either ultra- polished, exceedingly high brow, or a pedestrian pandering to sentimental tastes of yore, Hazama’s boldly organic and singularly exciting collective is a breath of fresh air. Her uncanny ability to remain intellectually stimulating and vibrantly spirited is what makes her work singularly innovative.” - All About Jazz

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