# New CD – 2024: Ayumi Koketsu – Limpid Flame – 2024: Review, Video, Cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2024/10/02/new-cd-2024-ayumi-koketsu-limpid-flame-2024-review-video-cover/
- Published: 2024-10-02T00:01:10+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**When a pretty woman plays the saxophone, it always attracts attention. When a 
pretty woman plays the saxophone well, it is doubly attractive. And if a pretty 
woman plays the saxophone brilliantly, it is probably Ayumi Koketsu.**

The alto saxophonist belongs to a relatively small group of performers who have 
clearly revealed their talent in instrumental jazz. Unlike vocal jazz, there are
still few women in instrumental jazz, and among those who have succeeded in playing
wind instruments, there are frankly few. If we talk about playing the soprano saxophone,
Jane Ira has been among the jazz elite among performers on this instrument for a
number of years.

The musicians from Japan have chosen the borderland between avant-garde jazz and
post-bop as a working field for their creativity, and they feel quite confident 
in it. In terms of performance technique and teamwork, they are quite mature masters.
In my opinion, there are fewer fresh, unexpected ideas in their music than I would
like. While listening, I had the feeling that I had already heard something similar.
However, this is only disc; the musicians still have a lot ahead of them, and perhaps
in this sense the title of their first-born, “A Little Boy,” is deeper than it seems.

Limpid Flame was released almost five and a half years after my last album. Due 
to the COVID-19 pandemic and changes in my lifestyle, I didn’t perform much in front
of people for a few years. However, that period gave me time to reflect on many 
things. I later realized that there had always been a deep passion for music within
me, like a smoldering fire. That’s why I named this album Limpid Flame.

After five and a half years, it was important for me to express my current musical
journey, including what I’ve cultivated during this time, in the new album. I chose
only my new compositions, and I’m glad I was able to record them with the reliable
members of my quartet, who have been playing together for more than ten years,- 
an interview with us said **Ayumi Koketsu.**

We recommend that you buy this CD and enjoy it.

1. Quiet
 2. Limpid Flame 3. M’s Day 4. Leap 5. Ginkgo 6. Daze 7. Move 8. A Little
Boy

**Alto Sax, Composed By – Ayumi Koketsu**
 **Piano – Koichi Sato** **Bass – Koji
Yasuda** **Drums – Masanori Ando**

[**Buy from here – New CD 2024**](https://lnk.to/limpidflame)

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