Concert featuring Logan Richardson, Blues People Big Bang
Image via City HallNew York performance venue City Hall lists a jazz concert for composer and performer Yoko Kanno at the venue on March 29, 2025. The concert will feature Logan Richardson and his Blues People Big Bang group.
Yoko Kanno is perhaps best known for her work on the soundtracks for Cowboy Bebop and many entries in the Macross series. Her work on various jazz genres on the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack has earned her a reputation as a jazz composer, but her work spans many genres, including rock and classical. She scored Macross Plus, which featured many electronic and classically inspired compositions, and she did the same for Macross Frontier. She has collaborated with director Shōji Kawamori not only on Macross, but also on Arjuna and his Aquarion franchise. Her collaborations with director Shinichiro Watanabe range from Cowboy Bebop to Terror in Resonance and Space Dandy, as well as Kids on the Slope, where she again showcased her jazz compositional abilities in the story of aspiring jazz musicians.
She is also known for her long-standing collaboration with singer Maaya Sakamoto. Kanno composed Sakamoto's debut single “Yakusoku wa Iranai”, which Sakamoto sang when she was 16 years old. The song was used as the famous opening theme for the anime The Vision of Escaflowne, for which Kanno also composed the soundtrack and Sakamoto also performed as the main character Hitomi. Kanno was the exclusive composer for Sakamoto's records until 2003 (although they collaborated frequently after that) and composed many of Sakamoto's later hits, including “Platinum” (from Card Captor Sakura), “Hemisphere” (from RahXephon), “Gravity” (from Wolf's Rain), and “Triangler” (from Macross Frontier), the latter three of which also appeared in shows for which Kanno composed the soundtrack.
Source: City Hall
