SOCIAL
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/Yoko.Miwa.Trio
3129 followers
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/yokomiwajazz
1334 followers
Twitter
https://twitter.com/yokomiwa
1934 followers
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/user/YokoMiwaTrio
884 followers
223,805 lifetime views
Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4xfIFGU467tYdyF6thGbLP
7,658,457 (Yoko Miwa Trio)
106,562 monthly listeners
1.3k followers
2019 Release Keep Talkin’ - 4.63 Million streams
Original composition Sunshine Follows the Rain - 4.54 Million streams and is featured on the Official Spotify Playlists “Coffee Table Jazz” and “Stations: Relaxing Jazz” as well as 2,000 listener playlists
Apple Music
Original composition Sunset Lane is on the Apple Music Jazz Playlist “Piano Bar”
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/piano-bar/pl.fc0d9d21c13c46149110dfd8dd844896
Tidal
Boogie Stop Shuffle from my 2019 release Keep Talkin’ is #5 on the “Jazz Piano/Keyboards Essentials” playlist on Tidal
https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/2906c2e9-ca85-416e-9522-9e44ecdf41e5
Radio Airplay
2019 release “Keep Talkin” was in the top 10 of the jazz week radio charts for 7 weeks straight peaking twice at number 4 during that period.
https://www.jazzweek.com/releases/2019/06/yoko-miwa-keep-talkin-ocean-blue-tear-music/
2017 release “Pathways” was in the top 10 of the jazz week radio charts for 3 weeks straight peaking at number 6.
https://www.jazzweek.com/releases/2017/04/yoko-miwa-pathways-ocean-blue-tear-music/
ABOUT YOKO MIWA
Yoko was named a Rising Star Pianist in the 2022 & 2023 DownBeat Critics Poll.
The Yoko Miwa Trio’s 2021 release Songs of Joy reached #1 on national jazz radio charts.
Songs of Joy was voted a best jazz album of 2021 in the DownBeat 86th Annual Readers Poll.
The Yoko Miwa Trio currently has 7,658,457 streams on Spotify
The Yoko Miwa Trio has 1,300 followers and 276,646 lifetime views on YouTube
Yoko’s 2019 CD, Keep Talkin’ received four stars from DownBeat.
Keep Talkin’ spent seven weeks in the top 10 on Jazz Week’s charts.
Yoko Miwa was chosen to play on “Marian McPartland & Friends,” part of the Coca-Cola Generations in Jazz Festival at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Yoko, along with Jazzmeia Horn performed and conducted master classes in Lincoln Center’s annual Jazz and Leadership Workshop for The National Urban League’s Youth Summit.
In 2018, the Yoko Miwa Trio performed on the main stage at the Atlanta Jazz Festival.
In 2018, the Yoko Miwa Trio performed in the Litchfield Jazz Festival, where her trio drew the largest audience of any act.
Yoko is an official Yamaha Pianos Artist
JVC Victor Entertainment recording artist
Ubuntu Music recording artist
2019 Winner in the Boston Music Awards as Jazz Artist of the Year, and 10X nominated.
Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll winner
Act Naturally, the Yoko Miwa Trio’s major label debut in Japan, came out in 2012 on the JVC Victor Entertainment label and the band toured Japan that same year.
Yoko named one of the best jazz pianists in Japan by Jazz Hihyo Magazine.
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
February 4th, 2022
Poli Club
Waterbury, CT
February 11th, 2022
The Iridium
New York, N.Y.
March 3rd, 2022
Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club
Portsmouth, N.H.
March 23rd, 2022
Dizzy’s Club
New York, N.Y.
May 27, 2022
Scullers
Boston, MA
press
"Songs Of Joy is an enthralling body of work that will become an important release for the year ahead, providing a welcome reprieve from the challenges that we have all recently faced, with inspiration and hope for what is to come.”
- Jazz in Europe
“The set's closer, the folk classic "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You," is a change of pace. Bassist Brad Barrett sits in, moving the sound a hundred and eighty degrees away from joy, with his mournful bowing painting a wash of tears brought on by the ramifications of the title's intent, while Miwa's piano notes are like teardrops breaking from that wash and falling to the floor.”
- Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
“consideration and a great spirit….very happy discovery for me, lots of power in her playing …I like it a lot”
- Julian Joseph, BBC Radio 3 (J to Z)
“Yoko Miwa has been gifted with both extraordinary musical skills and has the pure spirit that is necessary for great art. We love her musical gifts and her beautiful spirit as well.”
- Ahmad Jamal
“Remarkably, Miwa emerged from those first months of the pandemic with a new recording by her trio, her ninth, which, given the circumstances is remarkably upbeat and affirmative, living up to the album’s title, Songs Of Joy (Ubuntu Music).”
- Jon Garelick, DownBeat
Albums of The Year
Yoko Miwa Trio / Songs of Joy (Jazzcast.ca/Céline Peterson) Top 20 of 2021
Yoko Miwa Trio / Songs of Joy (JazzTimes/Steve Greenlee) Best of 2021
Yoko Miwa Trio / Songs of Joy (Textera) Best of 2021
Yoko Miwa Trio / Songs of Joy (Ken Frankling’s Jazz Notes) Best of 2021)
Yoko Miwa Trio / Songs of Joy (Downbeat Magazine Readers Poll)
4-5 Star Reviews (or equivalent)
Yoko Miwa Trio / Songs of Joy (Morning Star) 4 Stars
Yoko Miwa Trio / Songs of Joy (The Jazz Mann) 4 Stars
Yoko Miwa Trio / Songs of Joy (BBC Music Magazine) 4 Stars
Yoko Miwa Trio / Songs of Joy (Jazzwise - Editor’s Choice) 4 Stars
Yoko Miwa Trio / Songs of Joy (Ivan Rod DK) 4 Stars
Yoko Miwa Trio / Songs of Joy (All About Jazz) 4 Stars
Notable Recognitions
Yoko Miwa Trio’s Songs of Joy becomes the most played album in USA jazz radio (Jazzweek).
Yoko Miwa Trio achieves Top 10 USA radio airplay in the full year 2021.
Yoko Miwa nominated for the 2021 New England Music Awards.
REVIEW OF 2021
Yoko Miwa Trio / Songs of Joy
Japanese pianist Yoko Miwa’s debut on the Ubuntu label features her signature calling card of playing in different jazz contexts with spontaneity and clarity…from Monk to Zeppelin, Milt Jackson to Milton Nascimento and more, as well as featuring a healthy dose of her original compositions.
Recognition: Album of The Year
(Jazzcast, JazzTimes, Textera, Frankling’s Jazz Notes, DownBeat Magazine), 4-5 Star Reviews (Morning Star, The Jazz Mann, BBC Music Magazine, Jazzwise, Ivan Rod DK, All About Jazz).
BOOKING
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