How did the opportunity to make the Duet album with Chick Corea come about?
I played with Chick in 2006 at the Tokyo Jazz Festival. When we finished playing he said “Do you want to make an album?” I said “Okay.” [laughs] That’s how it started. It was very quick and surprising and really made my day. We ended up making a live concert album. We played at the Blue Note Tokyo for three nights. The album is a collection of songs from one of those nights. We played some of my songs that I thought would be interesting to do with him, some of his, and some standards. I also chose some of his songs that have been favorites of mine like “Humpty Dumpty.” The other interesting thing we did was The Beatles song “Fool On the Hill.” We both really loved the song. We were both listening to The Beatles a lot around that time, which is why we did it. The album is out in Japan now and should be out in America late this year or early 2009. Why do you think Corea took such an interest in your work? I have no idea. [laughs] He said I could play and was very open-minded. He does dif
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