Keishi Matsumoto - WITHIN THE CROWD (2019)

Born in Kagoshima Prefecture. Started classical piano from an early age.
He started performing at the age of 18, but went to New York to study jazz piano. After returning to Japan, he has been working on a nationwide basis, focusing on the Kagoshima base and releasing nationwide CDs and performing in various groups in Kanto and Kyushu. Until now, his own piano trio album "The Other Side Of It" and "LIFE ABOVE DEE" have been released nationwide. In October 2019, she released her third album "WITHIN THE CROWD" for the first time in five years.
In addition to producing music for commercials and producing music for the Hisatsu Orange Railway `` Tourist Train Orange Shokudo, '' it also contributes to improving the cultural power of Kagoshima Prefecture, such as hosting a jazz live that can be watched for free and providing free instruction to the jazz band club of Kagoshima University. We are also leading and devoting ourselves to activities.
At the 2014 Montreux Jazz Piano Competition in Kawasaki, he was talked about as the only local pianist selected as a finalist.
In 2017, she won the 42nd Kagoshima City Spring Rookie Award in the jazz category for the first time. This led to the launch of the “Kagoshima Jazz Festival”, which ended successfully with 16,000 mobilizations in the first year of 2017. It mobilized 31,000 people in 2018 and 67,000 in the third round in 2019. Initiator of the event and chair of the executive committee.