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Racha S”Miles Review on Smooth Jazz Daily
Published Date: Sunday, February 7, 2016 Racha Fora – Racha S’Miles: Racha Fora Tribute to Miles Racha Fora is a merging of culture, Japanese improvisation with Brazilian rhythms. Those cultures dig into the database with Racha S’Miles: Racha Fora Tribute to Miles (2015), a celebration of the music of Miles Davis.
***RINGER OF THE WEEK**** BRAZILIAN MILES… Racha Fora: Racha S’Miles
Published Date: Thursday, January 14, 2016 by George W. Harris • January 14, 2016 Racha Fora is the name of a quartet lead by Hiroaki Honshuku/fl-ewi, forming a core team with Mauricio Andrade/g, Rika Ikeda/v and Rafael Russi/b and along with guests Benhur Oliveira/perc and Dave Liebman/ss the whole band delivers a clever tribute to …
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Jazz Tokyo Concert Pick 2015
Published Date: Sunday, January 3, 2016 This Live / This Concert 2015 Racha Fora, CD Release Japan Tour 2015 9/13/2015, The Prince Park Tower Tokyo “Melody Line” Text by Kenny Inaoka
Racha S’Miles Selected Jazz Perspective Magazine Top 10
Published Date: Friday, December 11, 2015 Rahca S’Miles was selected for Best 10 by Hiroko Otsuka, Jazz Perspective Magazine Miles Davis repertoires have been done by so many in the past. This one is a different approach took by an uprising band, consists with Japanese front section and Brazilian rhythm section. We have heard pop …
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All About Jazz CD 4 Star Review on Racha S’Miles
Published Date: Monday, November 16, 2015 Racha Fora: Racha S’Miles (2015) http://www.allaboutjazz.com/racha-smiles-racha-fora-jazz-tokyo-review-by-james-nadal.php By JAMES NADAL, Published: November 16, 2015 The music of Miles Davis certainly needs no introduction. It has been covered in a myriad of styles, by a vast quantity of artists.Racha S’Miles is an ambitious project that deconstructs Davis’s music and hurls it …
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Racha S’Miles CD Review on Bebop Spoken Here
Published Date: Thursday, October 15, 2015 http://lance-bebopspokenhere.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/cd-review-racha-fora-racha-smiles.html Hiroaki Honshuku (flutes/piccolo/ewi); Rika Ikeda (violin); Mauricio Andrade (guitar); Rafael Russi (bass); Benhur Oliviera (pandeiro) + (on 3 tracks) Dave Liebman (sop sax). (Review by Lance).
Racha S’Miles Review on Midwest Record
Published Date: Monday, October 12, 2015 Midwest Record http://www.midwestrecord.com/MWR1015.html JAZZ TOKYO RACHA FORA/Racha S’miles: Music is the universal language? Jazz is the universal language? How about Miles is the universal language? A few years ago we had an Indian Miles Davis cross pollination that was pretty special. How about this time around we have a Brazilian …
Racha S’Miles Review on DownBeat Magazine
Published Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 Racha Fora Racha S’Miles: Racha Fora’s Tribute To Miles JAZZ TOKYO 1001 Racha Fora is an intriguing fusion jazz quartet made up of two Japanese and two Brazilian musicians. They met in Boston and started playing together as a band in 2010. Flutist and EWI player Hiroaki Honshuku leads …
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