Aki Takase

Infobox Musical artist
Name = Aki Takase

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Osaka, Japan
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Origin = Tokyo, Japan
Instrument = Piano
Genre = Jazz
Occupation = Musician, composer
Years_active = 1978–present
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Associated_acts = Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra
URL = [http://www.aki-takase.de/ www.aki-takase.de]
Notable_instruments = nihongo|Aki Takase|高瀬 アキ (born January 26 1948 in Osaka) is a critically acclaimed, award-winning Japanese jazz pianist and composer. __TOC__Raised in Tokyo, she studied music at Tohogakuen Music University. [ [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:1kq2g4fttv6z~T0 Aki Takase @ allmusic.com] ] Starting in 1978, she performed and recorded in the USA with Lester Bowie, David Liebman, John Zorn and others. Since 1981, she performed repeatedly at the Berlin Jazz Festival in Germany.

For many years, she has been working with Alexander von Schlippenbach, Eugene Chadbourne, Han Bennink, Evan Parker, Paul Lovens, Fred Frith and others, and in duets with Maria João, David Murray and Rudi Mahall.

In various projects, Takase has dealt with famous jazz musicians: Ellington (1990), Monk (1994), Dolphy (1998), W.C. Handy (2002), Fats Waller (2004), O. Coleman (2006).

Since 1987, she has been living in Berlin.

Partial discography

* 1981: "Minerva's Owl"
* 1982: "A.B.C."
* 1982: "Perdido"
* 1990: "Shima Shoka"
* 1992: "Close Up of Japan "
* 1993: "Clapping Music"
* 1995: "Play Ballads of Duke Ellington"
* 1995: "Piano Duets: Live in Berlin, 1993-1994"
* 1997: "Oriental Express"
* 2001: "Le Cahier du Bal"
* 2002 "News From Berlin"
* 2002 "Nine Fragments: Dempa"
* 2003 "The Dessert"
* 2004 "Duet for Eric Dolphy"
* 2004 "St. Louis Blues"
* 2005 "Lok 03"
* 2006 "Tarantella"
* 2006 "Spring in Bangkok" [live]
* 2007 "Ornette Coleman Anthology" (with Silke Eberhard)
* 2007 "Ich hebe meine Augen in die Welt" (with Michael Griener)

Awards

* The German Record Critics' Award [http://www.schallplattenkritik.de/about.html Official website of The German Record Critics' Award ("Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik")] 2001 [ [http://www.schallplattenkritik.de/li/2002-1.html Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik: Bestenliste 2002/1 ] ] and 2004 [ [http://www.schallplattenkritik.de/jp/2004/all.html Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik: Jahrespreise 2004 ] ]
* Jazz award of the German public broadcasting company SWR 2002 [ [http://www.presseportal.de/print.htx?nr=363849 SWR - Südwestrundfunk ] ]

References and Sources

*Aki Takase in the German wikipedia

External links

* [http://www.aki-takase.de Official site] (in German, English and Japanese)