- Jiyugaoka Studio, Ibaraki, June 14th. A very small and cosy club, perfect to start the tour with. A very friendly owner came to welcome us personally and invited us later to his house for dinner.
- Jiyugaoka Studio, Ibaraki, June 14th. A very small and cosy club, perfect to start the tour with. A very friendly owner came to welcome us personally and invited us later to his house for dinner.
-Cotton Club, Tokyo, June 16th. How nice to be back here again, it felt almost as my second home in Japan. The very friendly staff was waiting for me in the basement for their typical warm welcome, I had a fantastic time there! Such a nice people! After playing here for many years with different formations it was a real honor for me to play there solo and to see that the second concert was completely full!
-Motion Blue, Yokohama, June 18th. Partner of the Cotton Club in Tokyo, so this couldn’t go wrong, and it didn’t! Based in a very beautiful red brick warehouse, this modern club at the harbour of Yokohama has a stunning view. I met a lot of people that evening, including my most loyal Japanese fan who’s always there on my concerts.
-Lifetime, Shizuoka, June 19th. Shizuoka, a new city to discover, but I didn’t do it by myself. That evening I had the honor to perform in duo with the fantastic trumpet player and singer TOKU! A memorable night!!
-Ai Hall, Itami, June 20th. In this concert hall, again a new venue in Japan for me, close to Osaka, I finished this wonderful tour with an afternoon concert and I can’t wait to come back!
During this tour I had the chance to do lots of interviews, some at the concert venues, some at the headquarters of my record company Universal in Japan. Even a radio host (who has been doing his radio show for more than 40 years!) came over to interview me together with TOKU in Shizuoka.
Thanks to our booking agent Hirofumi Yamazaki (mocloud.com) we met a lot of people to make plans for the future.
Next year, we will be back and it will be a great project, keep on following!
Mo’ Connections, a UK booking agency and project management and Silverbyrd Management for the Belgian pianist and composer of international recognition Jef Neve are pleased to announce a collaborative relationship which they like to call “a creative partnership”.
Jef Neve, hailed as “the new Toots Thielemans of Belgium” (Volkskrant, NL, Febr. 2015), has become a standard for high class albums and projects in his home country, but also across Europe and his reputation is rapidly spreading over the rest of the world. His popularity started with the award-winning Jef Neve Trio, which toured all over the world, and continues as a solo performer, with successful tours from Chile to China, from Canada to Kenya. Over the years Jef has collaborated with many inspiring people, José James, Richard Galliano and Jamie Cullum, included. He also composes a lot of music for theatre, film and TV as well as classical piano music.
Sabina Czajkowska of Mo’ Connections is proud to be working with Robert Mitchell, a pianist and composer of an exceptional talent and scope of artistic activity on his large-scale projects, a choral/jazz one - “Invocation” (which features his groundbreaking ensemble Panacea) and a unique left hand piano festival “Leftitude” included. Robert is a Steinway Artist, has toured to 40 countries, released 8 albums, and worked in over 100 projects - with such artists as Steve Coleman, the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Shaun Escoffery, Courtney Pine, Greg Osby, and Soweto Kinch. Common areas of interest and potential opportunities of collaboration make this form of a partnership a promising and exciting prospect for both parties. Read More
Mo’ Connections, a UK booking agency and project management and Silverbyrd Management for the Belgian pianist and composer of international recognition Jef Neve are pleased to announce a collaborative relationship which they like to call “a creative partnership”.
