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Artist
ayumi ishito
12+ albums
jazzinstrumentalsaxophonefree jazznu jazz
about
Saxophonist and composer Ayumi Ishito has been performing in New York’s vast music scene since completing her studies at Berklee College of Music in 2010. In the time up until now Ishito has played a wide variety of musical styles such as jazz, blues, gospel, funk, experimental, world music and too many other sub-genres to name. This time spent honing her craft outside of the academic world has given Ishito a roundness that she couldn’t have otherwise obtained. She has lent her talents to such diverse acts as the jazz/blues band The Jazz Thieves, the free-jazz/dome metal band The Eighty Pound Pug as well as the Avant jazz trio, Nova Project. Most recently though Ishito has been at the helm, making her very first record View from a Little Cave, an album that has its roots in jazz but its compositions, vastly rhythmic and avant-garde to say the least, seem to have more in common with indie rock than classic jazz. This indie-inspired take on jazz becomes evident from the wondrous tempo shifts opening title track as Matthew Albeck’s electric guitar wah’s alongside Yoshiki Yamada’s electric bass grooves and Takafumi Suenaga’s keyboards while drummer Carter Bales masterfully maneuvers the beat. All throughout Ishito’s saxophone blows out notes as pure as the hues of color perfectly separated in the natural lines of a rainbow. Next on the slow, yet intense lounge offering “Still Shallow” Ishito’s sax at times sounds like it is being blown by the ghost of John Coltrane even as a s
