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New York City Hall of Performance Venues lists jazz concerts by composers and performers Yoko Kanno It will be held on March 29, 2025 at the venue.
Yoko Kanno Perhaps best known for her work in soundtracks cowboy bebop and many entries Macross series. Her work in multiple jazz subgenres cowboy bebop Scores have given her a reputation as a jazz composer, but her work spans a variety of genres, including rock and classical music. she scored Macross Pluswhich contains many electronic and classical-style works, and has a strong focus on Macross Frontier. She has worked with the director Shoji Kawamori Not only in Macrossand still Arjuna and his aquarion franchise. her collaboration with the director Shinichiro Watanabe extends from cowboy bebop arrive horror resonance and space dudealso children on slopeshe once again used her jazz compositions in a story about an aspiring jazz musician.
She is also known for her long-standing collaborations with singers Sakamoto Maya. Sugano composed Sakamoto’s first single, “Yakusoku wa Iranai”, which Sakamoto sang when she was only 16 years old. This song is the famous opening song Escaflowne’s vision Animation, Sugano also composed the music for the animation, and Sakamoto also played the protagonist Hitomi. Sugano remained Sakamoto’s exclusive songwriter until 2003 (although they collaborated frequently after that), and wrote many of Sakamoto’s later hits, including “Platinum” (from cardcaptor sakura), “hemisphere” (from Lach Sefong), “Gravity” (from wolf rain) and “Trigonometric” (from Macross Frontier), the latter three also appeared in the program where Sugano composed the soundtrack.
Source: City Hall
