Stan Killian/Yukako Yamano Quartet
In-person seats: $20 in advance / $25 at door
$10 full-time students with valid ID
Attendees receive a link to the recording to view for one week.
Livestream: $15
Link will be sent 15 minutes before the show and will remain active through Nov 17
Stan Killian, tenor saxophone
Yukako Yamano, piano
Shawn Simon, bass
Eric Kennedy, drums
New York-based saxophonist and composer Stan Killian has recorded with top notch jazz artists Roy Hargrove, Jeremy Pelt, Antonio Sanchez, Eric Harland, Ben Monder, Mike Moreno, David Binney among others, and has performed in some of New York City’s top venues like The Blue Note, Dizzy’s Club, The Iridium, and Carnegie Hall as well as in hardcore jazz venues like The 55 Bar, Jazz Gallery and Smalls Jazz Club. He has toured the U.S., Europe, Japan, Korea, China and Mexico and has released four critically acclaimed albums on Sunnyside Records. The French Jazz Magazine Les Chocs describes his latest, “Brooklyn Calling” as “an album of maturity. Stan Killian plays here with natural poise and confidence and in perfect symbiosis with his musicians, constantly creating to serve deep compositions, with catchy modern structures and harmonies.”
In 2009, with a new drive to perform his original music, Killian teamed up with Benito Gonzalez, Corcoran Holt and McClenty Hunter, forming a powerful quartet which performed monthly at the legendary 55 Bar in New York. Adding the star power of Roy Hargrove, David Binney and Jeremy Pelt, who were impressed with Killian’s playing and compositions, they recorded “Unified” in 2011. A year later, the quartet expanded to a quintet with guitarist Mike Moreno. After a year of gigs at The 55 Bar, “Evoke” was recorded and released in 2013, launching tours of Asia, Mexico and the U.S. Killian was recently nominated for a Grammy for his performance on the track “I Believe” by Shine and The Moonbeams from the compilation “All One Tribe”.
Yukako Yamano, born in Tokyo, Japan, is one of the most demanded jazz pianists in the music scene in Tokyo today. She first started studying music piano at the Yamaha Music School when she was three. As her passion for music was growing, she entered the high school attached to Tokyo College of Music, then Tokyo College of Music in classical piano major. At the age of eighteen, in the meantime, her expanding interest for music let her learn jazz music and soon began live performances to play her compositions. While she attended the university, she grew as a musician steadily by studying classical piano with Akiko Kodaka and Junko Inada , and jazz piano with Eriko Shimizu and Yuichi Inoue. Attending the master class taught by a classical pianist Peter Jablonski also helped her for deeper understanding of music.
In Feburary 2013, she released her first album entitled “1st Stage” with Koichi Osamu on bass and Manabu Fujii on drums. She toured all over Japan successfully with it, and people got aware of the rising star pianist. On June 2015, she released her second album “2nd Stage” with the same personnel. She also wrote her columns on a newspaper “Yomiuri Premium” published during September 2015 to April 2016, which contributed to make new jazz music lovers. On September 2019, she received an invitation from UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and performed successfully in Cameroon for 300 refugees. Since she started playing music professionally, she has been playing at many venues and jazz international artists in various music genres. She is currently a instructor at Korg Café Style music program, a researcher for the Lee Evans Association, and instructor at Vocal School DADA.
