Keiko Matsui
Encyclopedia
, born in Tokyo
as Keiko Doi, is a Japanese smooth jazz
/jazz fusion
/new age
/ keyboardist
and composer
whose career spans three decades, during which time she has released twenty CDs
(in addition to various compilations) and has received international acclaim.
holds that a child who is introduced to lessons at this time will continue in those studies for a long time. The tradition held true for Doi, who studied piano throughout her school years. Though her early training focused on classical music
, in junior high school
she developed an interest in jazz
and began composing her own music. Some of her musical influences at this time included Stevie Wonder
, Sergei Rachmaninoff
, Maurice Jarre
and Chick Corea
.
Doi studied children's culture at , but she also continued to study music at the Yamaha Music Foundation
. Doi was a top student in the Yamaha System and was selected at the age of seventeen to be a recording artist for them. Thus she joined the Japanese jazz fusion
group Cosmos, which recorded seven albums.
At age 19, Yamaha sent Doi to America to record an album, and there she met Kazu Matsui, who had been selected as a producer for the project. In 1987 Matsui recorded her solo debut LP
A Drop of Water, The album's title, the name of a song by Carl Anderson
, was in memory of those who had died in the Space Shuttle Challenger
disaster the year before. Its success led to a record deal with MCA Records
.
Keiko Matsui released two albums under the MCA label before moving on to White Cat, Countdown, Unity and currently Narada
. The 1990s saw Matsui's albums rising in the charts. Sapphire hit number two on Billboard
's weekly Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, and Dream Walk reached number three. Matsui was rated Billboard's number three Top Contemporary Jazz Artist for 1997 (where she was the only female jazz artist in the top ten), and both Dream Walk and Sapphire appeared in Billboard's Top Ten Indie Contemporary Jazz Albums for the same year.
Matsui received the Oasis award for Best Female Smooth Jazz Artist of the Year in 1999 and again in 2000. In 2001, Matsui's first album with Narada, Deep Blue, finally took her to the number one spot on Billboard's Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart and held the position for three weeks.
When United States President
George W. Bush
visited Japanese Prime Minister
Junichiro Koizumi
's residence on February 18, 2002, Keiko Matsui was invited to the reception and met both men and members of their administrations.
Matsui discovered saxophonist
Paul Taylor
, who appeared on Sapphire, Dream Walk, and Full Moon and the Shrine before going on to a successful career of his own http://www.paultaylorsax.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=28.
.
Proceeds from Matsui's 2001 mini-CD A Gift of Life went to the National Marrow Donor Program
and the Marrow Foundation in support of their program Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches, which promotes the registration of people of ethnic minorities as marrow donors in hopes of improving the chance of finding matching donors for people of similar descent in need.
Royalties from the title track of Matsui's 2004 CD Wildflower went to support of the United Nations
World Food Programme
(WFP). Matsui played at the United Nations Headquarters
building in New York City on December 17, 2003, to benefit the WFP and fight world hunger.
and Eastern
musical influences. She has a very spiritual
view of composing music, feeling out each composition as though it were, in her words, "coming to me from another space, another dimension," and "catching notes from the silence and then simply placing them together" http://www.smoothjazznews.com/archives/july2000/cs0700.html. Matsui sees music as "the great gifts from the human souls from the past, for the children of the future" http://www.keikomatsui.com/news/aug01.html. She believes that music has a power to bring people together and change their lives. "We are connected by music," Matsui wrote, "as the Ocean connects the continents" http://www.keikomatsui.com/news/dec01.html.
A lover of nature, Matsui often makes reference to plants, animals, the elements, and other natural features and phenomena
in her song titles. She shows a special fascination with the moon
as a number of her compositions refer to the moon in their titles.
Matsui's music shows signs of evolving over the years. Her American debut album A Drop of Water showed a promise of east meets west with a jazz fusion flavor. However, her recordings for MCA Records in the early 1990s lacked this appeal and, for many, sounded indistinguishable from the rest of what is now known as smooth jazz. Starting with Cherry Blossom, though, her music increased in popularity as she differentiated herself from the rest of contemporary jazz. By the time Sapphire was released in 1995, her music flirted with everything from funk music
to Latin
and world music
.
Whisper From the Mirror from 2000 showed Matsui leaving the smooth jazz style and moving towards new age with a soundscape
sound. A number of her fans had a problem adapting to her new style of music (though she continued to play smooth jazz at her concerts). But many welcomed the change. Over time her post-2000 albums show a more worldbeat
flavor to them. Her 2005 release Walls of Akendora, however, is a return to her pre-2000, smooth jazz days.
Several of these albums have been later re-released under different record labels.
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
as Keiko Doi, is a Japanese smooth jazz
Smooth jazz
Smooth jazz is a genre of music that grew out of jazz fusion and is influenced by R&B, funk, rock, and pop music styles ....
/jazz fusion
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...
/new age
New Age music
New Age music is music of various styles intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism. It is used by listeners for yoga, massage, meditation, and reading as a method of stress management or to create a peaceful atmosphere in their home or other environments, and is often...
/ keyboardist
Keyboardist
A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...
and composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
whose career spans three decades, during which time she has released twenty CDs
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
(in addition to various compilations) and has received international acclaim.
Early years
Keiko Doi's mother Emiko brought her to her first piano lesson in the June following her fifth birthday in 1966. Japanese traditionTradition
A tradition is a ritual, belief or object passed down within a society, still maintained in the present, with origins in the past. Common examples include holidays or impractical but socially meaningful clothes , but the idea has also been applied to social norms such as greetings...
holds that a child who is introduced to lessons at this time will continue in those studies for a long time. The tradition held true for Doi, who studied piano throughout her school years. Though her early training focused on classical music
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
, in junior high school
Middle school
Middle School and Junior High School are levels of schooling between elementary and high schools. Most school systems use one term or the other, not both. The terms are not interchangeable...
she developed an interest in jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
and began composing her own music. Some of her musical influences at this time included Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
, Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
, Maurice Jarre
Maurice Jarre
Maurice-Alexis Jarre was a French composer and conductor.Although he composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores, and is particularly known for his collaborations with film director David Lean. Jarre composed the scores to all of Lean's films since Lawrence of Arabia...
and Chick Corea
Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...
.
Doi studied children's culture at , but she also continued to study music at the Yamaha Music Foundation
Yamaha Music Foundation
The Yamaha Music Foundation is an organization established by the authority of the Japanese Ministry of Education for the purpose of promoting music education and music popularization...
. Doi was a top student in the Yamaha System and was selected at the age of seventeen to be a recording artist for them. Thus she joined the Japanese jazz fusion
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...
group Cosmos, which recorded seven albums.
At age 19, Yamaha sent Doi to America to record an album, and there she met Kazu Matsui, who had been selected as a producer for the project. In 1987 Matsui recorded her solo debut LP
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
A Drop of Water, The album's title, the name of a song by Carl Anderson
Carl Anderson (singer)
Carl Anderson was an American singer, film and theatre actor best known for his portrayal of Judas Iscariot in the Broadway and film versions of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.-Early life:Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, Anderson was one of 12 children of...
, was in memory of those who had died in the Space Shuttle Challenger
Space Shuttle Challenger
Space Shuttle Challenger was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, Columbia having been the first. The shuttle was built by Rockwell International's Space Transportation Systems Division in Downey, California...
disaster the year before. Its success led to a record deal with MCA Records
MCA Records
MCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part. MCA Records was absorbed by Geffen Records in 2003...
.
Recording success
Narada Productions
Narada is a record label formed 1983 as an independent New Age music label and distributed by MCA Records. Now a fully owned subsidiary of EMI, Narada evolved through an expansion of formats to include music from other styles including world music, jazz, Celtic music, new flamenco, acoustic guitar...
. The 1990s saw Matsui's albums rising in the charts. Sapphire hit number two on Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
's weekly Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, and Dream Walk reached number three. Matsui was rated Billboard's number three Top Contemporary Jazz Artist for 1997 (where she was the only female jazz artist in the top ten), and both Dream Walk and Sapphire appeared in Billboard's Top Ten Indie Contemporary Jazz Albums for the same year.
Matsui received the Oasis award for Best Female Smooth Jazz Artist of the Year in 1999 and again in 2000. In 2001, Matsui's first album with Narada, Deep Blue, finally took her to the number one spot on Billboard's Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart and held the position for three weeks.
When United States President
President of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
visited Japanese Prime Minister
Prime Minister of Japan
The is the head of government of Japan. He is appointed by the Emperor of Japan after being designated by the Diet from among its members, and must enjoy the confidence of the House of Representatives to remain in office...
Junichiro Koizumi
Junichiro Koizumi
is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. He retired from politics when his term in parliament ended.Widely seen as a maverick leader of the Liberal Democratic Party , he became known as an economic reformer, focusing on Japan's government debt and the...
's residence on February 18, 2002, Keiko Matsui was invited to the reception and met both men and members of their administrations.
Matsui discovered saxophonist
Saxophone
The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor (musician)
Paul Taylor is an American smooth jazz saxophonist who has released eight albums since his debut On the Horn in 1995. He is signed to Peak Records. Although originally from Denver, Colorado, he is based in Las Vegas, Nevada...
, who appeared on Sapphire, Dream Walk, and Full Moon and the Shrine before going on to a successful career of his own http://www.paultaylorsax.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=28.
Charitable causes
Matsui has taken an interest in a variety of charitable causes. Her 1997 mini-CD A Gift of Hope went to support the Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization, and her music appeared in a Lifetime channel special about breast cancer, "Say It, Fight It, Cure It." Matsui also played at a special ice skating benefit in 1997 to support the Susan G. Komen for the CureSusan G. Komen for the Cure
Susan G. Komen for the Cure, formerly known as The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, often referred to as simply Komen, is the most widely known, largest and best-funded breast cancer organization in the US....
.
Proceeds from Matsui's 2001 mini-CD A Gift of Life went to the National Marrow Donor Program
National Marrow Donor Program
National Marrow Donor Program® Be The Match is the global leader in providing marrow and umbilical cord blood transplants to patients with leukemia, lymphoma and other diseases. The nonprofit organization matches patients with donors, educates health care professionals and conducts research so more...
and the Marrow Foundation in support of their program Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches, which promotes the registration of people of ethnic minorities as marrow donors in hopes of improving the chance of finding matching donors for people of similar descent in need.
Royalties from the title track of Matsui's 2004 CD Wildflower went to support of the United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
World Food Programme
World Food Programme
The World Food Programme is the food aid branch of the United Nations, and the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger worldwide. WFP provides food, on average, to 90 million people per year, 58 million of whom are children...
(WFP). Matsui played at the United Nations Headquarters
United Nations headquarters
The headquarters of the United Nations is a complex in New York City. The complex has served as the official headquarters of the United Nations since its completion in 1952. It is located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, on spacious grounds overlooking the East River...
building in New York City on December 17, 2003, to benefit the WFP and fight world hunger.
The Keiko Matsui sound
Matsui's music is powerful and introspective, blending both WesternWestern culture
Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization or European civilization, refers to cultures of European origin and is used very broadly to refer to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, religious beliefs, political systems, and specific artifacts and...
and Eastern
Eastern world
__FORCETOC__The term Eastern world refers very broadly to the various cultures or social structures and philosophical systems of Eastern Asia or geographically the Eastern Culture...
musical influences. She has a very spiritual
Spirituality
Spirituality can refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality; an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his/her being; or the “deepest values and meanings by which people live.” Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop...
view of composing music, feeling out each composition as though it were, in her words, "coming to me from another space, another dimension," and "catching notes from the silence and then simply placing them together" http://www.smoothjazznews.com/archives/july2000/cs0700.html. Matsui sees music as "the great gifts from the human souls from the past, for the children of the future" http://www.keikomatsui.com/news/aug01.html. She believes that music has a power to bring people together and change their lives. "We are connected by music," Matsui wrote, "as the Ocean connects the continents" http://www.keikomatsui.com/news/dec01.html.
A lover of nature, Matsui often makes reference to plants, animals, the elements, and other natural features and phenomena
Phenomenon
A phenomenon , plural phenomena, is any observable occurrence. Phenomena are often, but not always, understood as 'appearances' or 'experiences'...
in her song titles. She shows a special fascination with the moon
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only known natural satellite,There are a number of near-Earth asteroids including 3753 Cruithne that are co-orbital with Earth: their orbits bring them close to Earth for periods of time but then alter in the long term . These are quasi-satellites and not true moons. For more...
as a number of her compositions refer to the moon in their titles.
Matsui's music shows signs of evolving over the years. Her American debut album A Drop of Water showed a promise of east meets west with a jazz fusion flavor. However, her recordings for MCA Records in the early 1990s lacked this appeal and, for many, sounded indistinguishable from the rest of what is now known as smooth jazz. Starting with Cherry Blossom, though, her music increased in popularity as she differentiated herself from the rest of contemporary jazz. By the time Sapphire was released in 1995, her music flirted with everything from funk music
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
to Latin
Latin American music
Latin American music, found within Central and South America, is a series of musical styles and genres that mixes influences from Spanish, African and indigenous sources, that has recently become very famous in the US.-Argentina:...
and world music
World music
World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
.
Whisper From the Mirror from 2000 showed Matsui leaving the smooth jazz style and moving towards new age with a soundscape
Soundscape
A soundscape is a sound or combination of sounds that forms or arises from an immersive environment. The study of soundscape is the subject of acoustic ecology...
sound. A number of her fans had a problem adapting to her new style of music (though she continued to play smooth jazz at her concerts). But many welcomed the change. Over time her post-2000 albums show a more worldbeat
Worldbeat
Worldbeat is a music genre that primarily refers to a blending of Western pop music with traditional/folk or world music influences...
flavor to them. Her 2005 release Walls of Akendora, however, is a return to her pre-2000, smooth jazz days.
Cosmos
- HYORYU (Toshiba-EMI, 1980–1981, soundtrack)
- LP: ETP-90060 (side one: 7 songs, side two: 8 songs)
- Session III (YAMAHA R&D Studio, 1981)
- LP: YDD8101 (5 songs); CD: YCD8301 (6 songs)
- CAN CAN CAN! (Canyon RecordsPony Canyonis a Japanese company, established on October 1, 1966 , which publishes music, DVD and VHS videos, movies and video games. It is a subsidiary of Japanese Media Group, Fujisankei Communications Group.-History:...
, 1982)
- CAN CAN CAN! (Canyon Records
- LP: C25R0092 (side one: 4 songs, side two: 4 songs); CD: D32R0015
- Bourbonsuite (Canyon Records, 1982)
- LP: C25R0103 (side one: 5 songs, side two: 5 songs)
- MUSITOPIA (Canyon Records, 1983)
- LP: C25R0110 (side one: 4 songs, side two: 5 songs); CD: D35R0008
- MUSOU TOSHI (Canyon Records, 1984)
- LP: C25R0126 (side one: 4 songs, side two: 5 songs)
- Lensman TV Series soundtrack (Canyon Records, 1984)
- LP: C28A0391 (side one: 8 songs, side two: 9 songs)
- COSMOS THE BEST - (Canyon Records, 1985, compilation of COSMOS songs)
- CD: D32R0039 (14 songs)
- Session V (Yamaha R&D Studios, 1985)
- CD: YCD8501 (12 songs)
- Keiko Project (Canyon Records, 1985, compositions of Keiko Doi from earlier COSMOS albums)
- LP: C18A0434 (side one: 2 songs, side two: 2 songs) highly unusual, all songs have vocals.
Solo releases
- A Drop of WaterA Drop of WaterA Drop of Water is the debut album by Keiko Matsui from 1987. The album was also released in 1993 and then 1997 adding a bonus track for the previous album.The original cover showed some colored pictures of Keiko Matsui with some other thing...
(Passport Jazz Records, 1987, rereleased in 1993 & 2003, with one bonus track added each time) - Under Northern Lights (MCA RecordsMCA RecordsMCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part. MCA Records was absorbed by Geffen Records in 2003...
, 1989) - No Borders (MCA Records, 1990)
- Night Waltz (Sin-Drome Records, 1991)
- Cherry Blossom (White Cat, 1992)
- Doll (White Cat, 1994)
- Sapphire (White Cat, 1995)
- Dream Walk (Countdown, 1996)
- A Gift of Hope (Unity, 1997)
- Keiko Matsui Collection (GRP RecordsGRP RecordsGRP Records is an American jazz record company, owned by Universal Music Group and operates through its Verve Music Group. The company's name has had different meanings. In its early days, it stood for "Grusin/Rosen Productions," after the founders...
, 1997) - Full Moon and the Shrine (Countdown, 1998)
- This CD includes one of Matsui's best-known pieces, "Forever, Forever."
- Keiko Matsui Live (Countdown, 1999)
- Best Selection (Pione, 1999)
- Whisper From the Mirror (Countdown, 2000)
- Glance of the Past (Countdown, 2001)
- The Wind and the Wolf (Pione, 2000)
- Hidamari no Ki (2000) anime soundtrack (Planet Joy 2002)
- Deep Blue (NaradaNarada ProductionsNarada is a record label formed 1983 as an independent New Age music label and distributed by MCA Records. Now a fully owned subsidiary of EMI, Narada evolved through an expansion of formats to include music from other styles including world music, jazz, Celtic music, new flamenco, acoustic guitar...
, 2001) - A Gift of Life (Narada, 2001)
- The Ring (Narada, 2002)
- Live in Tokyo (Sony/ColumbiaColumbia RecordsColumbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
, 2002) - Spring Selection (Sony/Columbia, 2003)
- The Piano (Narada, 2003)
- White Owl (Narada, 2003)
- Wildflower (Narada, 2004)
- The Very Best of Keiko Matsui (GRP Records, 2004)
- Summer Selection (Sony/Columbia, 2004)
- Walls of Akendora (Narada, 2005)
- Moyo (Heart & Soul) (Shout! FactoryShout! FactoryShout! Factory is an entertainment company founded in 2003 that was started by Richard Foos , Bob Emmer and Garson Foos initially as a specialty music label...
, 2007) - The Road... (Shanachie RecordsShanachie RecordsShanachie Records was founded in 1976 by Richard Nevins and Dan Collins. According to Harvey Pekar , it is one of the largest independent record labels in the world, and is currently distributed by E1 Music. Starting as a label that specialized in fiddle music, they began releasing work by Celtic...
, 2011)
Several of these albums have been later re-released under different record labels.
Duet releases
- Altair & Vega - with Bob JamesBob James (musician)Robert McElhiney James is a jazz keyboardist, arranger and producer.-Biography:During the 1970s, Bob James played a major role in establishing the smooth jazz genre. "Angela", the instrumental theme from the sitcom Taxi, is probably Bob James' most well-known work to date...
(eOne MusicEntertainment OneEntertainment One Ltd is a leading international entertainment business operating in the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia and New Zealand...
, 2011)
Guest appearances
- Mariko Tone - "Just My Tone" (1987)
- Akira Asakura – "Spread Colors"
- Kazu Matsui – Tribal Mozart (Countdown, 1997)
- Kazu Matsui – Tribal Shubert (Countdown, 1999)
- Bob James – Dancing on the Water (Warner Brothers/WEAWarner Music GroupWarner Music Group is the third largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the big four record companies...
, 2000) - Kazu Matsui - Tribal Beethoven (Planet Joy, 2001)
- Jason Miles – "Miles to Miles" (Narada, 2005)
Compilation appearances
- Smooth Jazz V98.7 FM – Vol. 3 (label and release date unknown; released by radio station WVMV-FM, Detroit)
- All That Jazz III (GRP Records, release date unknown)
- KMJZ Smooth Jazz Sampler Volume 1 (KMJZKZJKKZJK is a radio station broadcasting the adult hits "Jack FM" format in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region of Minnesota. The current format took to the air on the morning of April 21, 2005, following more than four years of a 1980s-centered playlist...
, release date unknown) - 20 Years of Narada Piano20 Years of Narada Piano20 Years of Narada Piano is a 2001 compilation release by Narada. It peaked at #12 on Billboard's Top New Age album charts in the same year.-Track listing:*1.1 "Endings" – Michael Jones – 5:33*1.2 "Sunrise" – Kostia – 5:02...
- New Age Music & New Sounds Vol. 67 - "Liberty"
- KWJZ Smooth Jazz Sampler Volume 2 (KWJZ, release date 1994)
Videos
- Bridge Over The Stars
- Full Moon And The Shrine
- Light Above the Trees (WinstarUnited States v. Winstar Corp.United States v. Winstar Corp., 518 U.S. 839 , was a decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that the United States Government had breached its contractual obligations...
, 1998) - The Jazz Channel Presents Keiko Matsui (Image EntertainmentImage EntertainmentImage Entertainment, Inc. is an independent licensee, producer and distributor of home entertainment programming and film & television productions in North America, with approximately 3,000 exclusive DVD titles and approximately 250 exclusive CD titles in domestic release, and approximately 450...
, 2001) DVD - White Owl (Narada, 2003) DVD included with the 'White Owl' CD; concert at Bunkamura Orchard Hall (Tokyo, 2002)
- Walls of Akendora bonus DVD included with the music CD; 9 songs with track 10 a home movie of being on the road (2004).
Books
- Compositions (2005) - Sheet music for ten of Matsui's favorite songs, plus two more bonus songs, with instructional CD. Out of stock with retailers since before 2006, but available at her music engagements and perhaps elsewhere.
External links
- Keiko Matsui Official Website
- Narada Productions, a recording label