Junko Onishi

piano · 1967 · Kyoto

Japanese pianist born in Kyoto in 1967, she studied at the Berklee College of Music and then settled in New York, where she played with Joe Henderson, Betty Carter and Kenny Garrett. Her album Live at the Village Vanguard (1994) is the first live recording by a Japanese musician at that club.

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Styles

• Neoclassicism, Young Lions
• Japanese jazz

Landmark tracks

• So Long Eric (1994)
• Blue Skies (Junko Onishi) (1994)
• Concorde (Junko Onishi) (1994)
• How Long Has This Been Goin' On? (Junko Onishi) (1994)
• Congeniality (Junko Onishi) (1994)

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