A piano-trio-only jazz playlist designed to gently energize your reading time, a quiet yet active form of intellectual engagement. We’ve added 16 newly selected tracks to the previous lineup and updated the playlist as “Edition 4.” This edition focuses on Japanese jazz.
*The new selection runs from the beginning through Teru Sakamoto Trio’s “Yuyake Koyake.”
Jazz Piano for Reading 4
1. Martha / Masahiro Sayama
2. Maria / Norio Maeda Trio
3. I Fall in Love Too Easily / George Otsuka Trio
4. Alone Alone and Alone / Mikio Masuda
5. Bitter Waltz / Fumio Karashima meets Elvin Jones
6. My Foolish Heart / Ryo Fukui
7. End / Masabumi Kikuchi + Masahiko Togashi
8. Poppy / Masaru Imada Trio
9. It Could Happen to You / Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio
10. Bye Bye Blackbird / Kunihiko Sugano Trio
11. You Don't Know What Love Is / Takehiro Honda
12. Fuji / Yasuhiro Kohno Trio
13. Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square / Masahiko Togashi
14. Easy Living / Yoku Tamura/Red Mitchell/Donald Bailey
15. Carolina / Kazuo Yashiro Trio
16. Yuyake Koyake / Teru Sakamoto Trio
Jazz Piano for Reading 3
17. Gone With the Wind / George Shearing Trio
18. So Little Time / Eddie Heywood
19. I Wouldn't Change You for the World You Are Too Beautiful / Jimmy Rowles Trio
20. Music for Shattering Supermarkets / Michael Garrick Trio
21. Golden Earrings / Phineas Newborn Jr. Trio
22. Eronel / Chick Corea
23. Luberon / Bobo Stenson
24. And Now? / Joe Haider Trio
25. A Blue Time / Tommy Flanagan
26. Everything Happens to Me / Georges Arvanitas Trio
27. The Nearness of You / Maurice Vander
28. Vierd Lullaby / Hilton Ruiz Trio
29. Peace of Mind / Sadik Hakim Trio
30. Lövspring / Thomas Clausen
31. Shadow & Shade / Takeshi Shibuya
Jazz Piano for Reading 2
32. At Last / Russ Freeman Trio
33. Days of Wine and Roses / McCoy Tyner
34. Ah, Moore / Steve Kuhn Trio
35. Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year / Trio Pim Jacobs
36. Loves Parting / Don Friedman Trio
37. The End of a Love Affair / Jack Wilson
38. My Foolish Heart / John Hicks Trio
39. I-Thou / Denny Zeitlin
40. Ronnie / Bernie Senensky
41. Flute Song / Fritz Pauer Trio
42. Sunset / Kenny Barron Trio
43. Preludium C-moll (Paraphrase) / Mieczysław Kosz
44. Equipoise / Stanley Cowell Trio
45. I Waited for You / Rein De Graaff
46. Angel Eyes / Duke Pearson
47. Someday My Prince Will Come / Tsuyoshi Yamamoto
Jazz Piano for Reading 1
48. Our Waltz / John Wright
49. My Romance / Red Garland Trio
50. Carmel / Hampton Hawes Trio
51. It Ain't Necessarily So / Mary Lou Williams
52. Maya / Michel Sardaby Trio
53. Lonely Woman / Horace Silver Trio
54. Song for a Child / John Taylor Trio
55. Just as Though You Were Here / Barry Harris Trio
56. Love, I've Found You / Wynton Kelly
57. In Love in Vain / Bill Evans Trio
58. The Little Things That Mean So Much / Billy Taylor Trio
59. Love Span / Mal Waldron Trio
60. Sweet and Lovely / Roy Haynes Trio
61. Dolphin Dance / Ahmad Jamal Trio
Playlist by Daisuke Hirose (ELLA RECORDS)
Cover photo by Shinnosuke Chiba (ELLA RECORDS)
PROMOTIONAL ONLY
