Dairo Miyamoto - Last Picture (2018)

To understand the reason for this album, let's start with a bit of history.
Originally there is the trumpet player Jun Miyake, who is a star in Japan with 17 albums to his credit and a work that goes from jazz to film music, compositions for contemporary dance or TV commercials as well as many collaborations with Wim Wenders, Jean-Paul Goude, Philippe Découflé, Oliver Stone .... and artists like Arthur H., Vinicius Cantuaria, David Byrne, Grace Jones, Ron Carter, Michael Brecker and many others.

It must also be known that until his death, Dairo Miyamoto was the saxophonist of Jun Miyake, which gives him all legitimacy to make this magnificent tribute to this great artist who entrusted him with the realization of his latest album. Also, even if this album is to classify in the contemporary jazz category, we find there a few flavors of the creative passions of Dairo Miyamoto, Jun Miyake has been able to retranslate perfectly, infusing cinematic ambiences, dance or contemporary music. A broad opening and a look not only on the work of Dairo Miyamoto, but on the act of creation in general.

There is a label in France that has a large catalog in which there are many nuggets, it is Cristal Records, based in La Rochelle, near the old port, and it was natural that this album essential, even essential, pass in their hands.