This Mizuoka Nobuyuki Group May Day performance of “So What” still fascinates and entertains me some 14 years after the event took place. It obviously has much to do with the carefree synergy the players display. Equally important, though, is the fact that this recording represents a far superior arrangement to the famous original by the great Miles Davis!
Let’s enjoy two solo live-house performances of the original melody “Sirius.” Composer-pianist Nobuyuki Mizuoka does not play even his own songs the same way twice — his music-making is a cosmically creative force, unbridled, abundant and free.
“My Favorite Things” is one of the most famous and widely recognized songs from composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein’s Broadway musical and Hollywood film “The Sound of Music.” The often-heard standard, much beloved in Japan, long ago became a permanent fixture of the cultural scene.
This Nobuyuki Mizuoka composition was performed solo by him on June 27, 2013. During certain informal live gigs at local venues around Tokyo, Mizuoka-san would habitually play 9 to 13 complete, original songs non-stop.
Here is a breathtaking original Nobuyuki Mizuoka composition that is the seventh track on his 2009 album “Life.” Mizuoka-san has a bottomless creative capability that may very well catapult him to great heights as an international-caliber composer-arranger.
This song had been created as a part of the international humanitarian response to the 8.8 magnitude earthquake and accompanying tsunami that devastated Japan’s northeastern (Tōhoku) region on March 11, 2011.
Cross-border sampler of three original melodies written and performed by Composer-Pianist Nobuyuki Mizuoka.
Energetic and entertaining live music is celebrated in a flow of merrily candid photographs as Nobuyuki Mizuoka and his bandmates perform the beautiful original melody “Life” at a Caretta Shiodome outdoor music event in downtown Tokyo, Japan.
Scenes from around Georgia State are set to the sound of a soulful live performance by Pianist Nobuyuki Mizuoka. Shown above is the late Lyricist Johnny Mercer, a Georgia native.
The unique melodies of Composer-Pianist Nobuyuki Mizuoka are routinely featured in the background music of the TV-Asahi Channel’s 秘湯ロマン (“Hitou Roman”— Hidden Hot Spring Romance) program in Japan. “Hitou Roman” was profiled in Yahoo News Japan in October 2018, the program’s 20th Anniversary Year: https://tinyurl.com/yb6xpa52
