Tag Archives: Jake Shimabukuro

Jake Shimabukuro, Jake & Friends. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Ambition, if channelled wisely, is the gigantic spur of all artistic creation. To create out of freedom, of being able to look at the unblemished, untouched marble that stands between you and eternity, is driven by the unmistakable fact that what the artist sees is potential, to capture something unique in the detail.

No matter the field of artistic endeavour, the chance, the ability to practise what you preach is embedded deeply into the soul, and perhaps if that vision of immortality is shared, combined with another’s impressive prowess, then what is revealed is not only verging on the unique, but also irreplaceable.

Jake Shimabukuro, Jake & Friends. Album Review. full post

(424 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Jake Shimabukuro, Trio. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The atmospheric brilliance displayed by the unexpected is such that when it hits you, when it finds you gasping for breath in the wake of its unmistakeable majesty, it leaves all that you may have become used to, floundering under the weight of your pre-conceived ideas.

Such is the presence created by Jake Shimabukuro and his ukulele, the pleasure that bounds forth is not only atmospheric, it positively invokes the passion found in the realm of imagination and asks the listener to embrace the fundamental essence of tone, mood and musical environment; a point of maintain the healthy respect to which art and the ability to appreciate are the twin pillars of civilisation.

Jake Shimabukuro, Trio. Album Review. full post

(406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)