Live from Harlem, The Jazz Foundation Presents: Kiyoko Layne Quartet
June 02, 2022
Jazz Museum in Harlem | Free
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The National Jazz Museum in Harlem and Jazz Foundation of America presents Kiyoko Layne Quartet.
This show will stream live on the Museum and Jazz Foundation Facebook page and the Museum Youtube. For more info, click here»
Born in Kagoshima, Japan, Kiyoko Layne played classical piano and alto saxophone in her youth and later formed an acapella band while working as a nurse. She began singing to her patients and was overwhelmed by their reaction. When she saw them crying she realized the great power music has to move people’s hearts. Leaving her nursing career to pursue her passion for music, she joined the well-known Japanese Gospel Choir the “Naniwa Black Peppers” in 2000, and then, inspired by the choir director to study Jazz and Gospel in the U.S., she attended Berklee College of Music, where she earned a degree in Jazz Composition in December of 2007. Since moving to Harlem in 2008, Kiyoko has performed in numerous jazz clubs, in the house band at the Jazz Foundation of America's Monday Night Jam, and at United Nations Plaza, while also working as music librarian for the Duke Ellington Orchestra and teaching. Her first CD, "Kiyoko in Harlem", came out in 2009.
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the Howard Gilman Foundation.
This show will stream live on the Museum and Jazz Foundation Facebook page and the Museum Youtube. For more info, click here»
Born in Kagoshima, Japan, Kiyoko Layne played classical piano and alto saxophone in her youth and later formed an acapella band while working as a nurse. She began singing to her patients and was overwhelmed by their reaction. When she saw them crying she realized the great power music has to move people’s hearts. Leaving her nursing career to pursue her passion for music, she joined the well-known Japanese Gospel Choir the “Naniwa Black Peppers” in 2000, and then, inspired by the choir director to study Jazz and Gospel in the U.S., she attended Berklee College of Music, where she earned a degree in Jazz Composition in December of 2007. Since moving to Harlem in 2008, Kiyoko has performed in numerous jazz clubs, in the house band at the Jazz Foundation of America's Monday Night Jam, and at United Nations Plaza, while also working as music librarian for the Duke Ellington Orchestra and teaching. Her first CD, "Kiyoko in Harlem", came out in 2009.
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the Howard Gilman Foundation.
