Yoko Miwa Trio - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

Yoko Miwa Trio - “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”
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“Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” by Anne Bredon from the Yoko Miwa Trio’s performance in the 2021 East Coast Jazz Festival. Featuring Yoko Miwa on piano, Will Slater and Brad Barrett on acoustic bass, Scott Goulding on drums. Recorded at Wellspring Sound in Boston, MA on March 5, 2021. Video by Roger Metcalf, audio engineered by Matt Hayes. This version is based on the arrangement by Jimmy Page that appears on Led Zeppelin’s debut album. Yoko’s take on this song also appears on her latest chart topping release on Ubuntu Music titled “Songs of Joy” https://orcd.co/rxak2vk
The East Coast Jazz Festival was virtual due to the pandemic and for this performance the trio wore masks and socially distanced following CDC protocols. This was the first time Will Slater and Brad Barrett played together, the song was done in one take and captures the spontaneity and raw energy this trio critically acclaimed trio has become known for.

“Yoko Miwa has been gifted with both extraordinary musical skills and the pure spirit that is necessary for great art. We love her musical gifts and her beautiful spirit as well.” – Ahmad Jamal

“A product of Kobe, Japan by way of the Berklee College of Music, pianist Yoko Miwa has lately been earning robust acclaim — in her native Japan, in her adopted hometown of Boston, and increasingly beyond those spheres. Her new album, Songs of Joy, due out on the Ubuntu label on Feb. 12, will only help things along.” - Nate Chinen

"This album is yet another triumph from one of America’s finest jazz pianists, composers, and bandleaders.” - Rick Anderson, CD Hotlist

"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

“I can't imagine hearing many better examples of jazz piano at its best.” - Lance Liddle, bebop spoken here