Soul Quest (Keiko Matsui album)
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- Aftershock Studio, Westwood, California
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- Brady Sound, Ronkonkoma, New York
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| Released | July 30, 2013 | |||
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| Genre | Jazz, smooth jazz | |||
| Length | 49:27 | |||
| Label | Shanachie | |||
| Producer | Keiko Matsui | |||
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Soul Quest is a studio album by jazz keyboardist Keiko Matsui, released in 2013 on Shanachie Records.[1][2] The album peaked at No. 2 on the US Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart.[3]
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Jeff Tamarkin of Jazz Times wrote "Everyone can use a good shakeup once in a while to put things into perspective, and the nervous system of Japanese-born pianist and composer Keiko Matsui certainly underwent a serious reboot when she found herself in a Tokyo train station during the massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan. That scare, balanced out by a happier occasion, the 25th anniversary of her U.S. recording debut in 2012, inform the music on Soul Quest, not surprisingly a work of contrasting emotions and sensibilities."[5]
AllMusic's Thom Jurek, in a 4/5-star review, exclaimed "Soul Quest marks pianist Keiko Matsui's 25th recording anniversary. Since the very beginning, her crystalline piano and accessible yet harmonically rich compositions have been mainstays, not only on the smooth and contemporary jazz scenes, but also on the charts. She enlisted an all-star studio group to assist her on these ten tunes, nine of which she wrote or co-wrote...Soul Quest's greatest achievement lies in its diversity, and in the way Matsui applies her imagination as a composer, improviser, and arranger. It ranks with her finest work."[4]