Live (Jake Shimabukuro album)
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| Live album by Jake Shimabukuro | ||||
| Released | April 14, 2009 | |||
| Label | Hitchhike Records | |||
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Live is Jake Shimabukuro's 2009 solo album. It was released in April 2009, and consists of live in-concert performances from various venues around the world, including New York, Chicago, Japan, and Hawaii.
Live peaked at number 5 in Billboard's Top World Music Albums in 2009 and 2010.[1] The album won the 2010 Na Hoku Hanohano Award for Instrumental Album of the Year, and also garnered Shimabukuro the award for Favorite Entertainer of the Year.[2] In addition, it won the 2010 Hawaii Music Award for Best Ukulele Album.
AllMusic noted that, "Shimabukuro is a monster musician and boldly takes the ukulele where no ukulele has ever gone before, dazzling listeners with his blinding speed, melodic invention, and open-ended improvisations of remarkable virtuosity. Before Shimabukuro, the idea of spending an evening listing to a solo ukulele player was probably most people's idea of hell, but the 17 solo efforts here never bore. They show Shimabukuro's range and his humor as well."[3]
Track listing
All tracks composed by Jake Shimabukuro except where noted
- "Trapped"
- "Piano-Forte"
- "Bach Two-Part Invention No. 4 in D Minor" (Johann Sebastian Bach)
- "Me & Shirley T."
- "Spain" (Chick Corea)
- "Five Dollars Unleaded"
- "Let's Dance: Prelude"
- "Let's Dance"
- "Thriller" (Rod Temperton)
- "Orange World"
- "Wes on Four"
- "Sakura Sakura" (Traditional Japanese)
- "Dragon"
- "Yeah"
- "From Ukulele Disco to Youtube"
- "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (George Harrison)
- "3rd Stream"
- "Blue Roses Falling"
References
External links
- Live at AllMusic
- Live at Amazon
- Jake Shimabukuro playing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at Strawberry Fields on YouTube – 2006 viral YouTube video (New York television show Ukulele Disco)
- Biography of Jake Shimbukuro at Billboard