Love And Nothing Less ♫ Keiko Matsui Ft. Lalah Hathaway, Grégoire Maret

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From the album «Euphoria» 2023 Shanachie Ent.
Written By: Keiko Matsui
Arranged By: John Beasley, Randy Waldman, Ron Pedley
Producer:

Credits

Acoustic Guitar – JP Mourao
Bass – Jimmy Johnson (5)
Drums – Jimmy Branly
Electric Piano [Rhodes] – Ron Pedley
Guitar – Michael Thompson
Harmonica – Gregoire Maret
Percussion – Luis Conte
Piano – Keiko Matsui
Vocals – Lalah Hathaway

Born Keiko Doi, 26 July 1961 in Tokyo (Japan), Keiko Matsui  is a Japanese keyboardist and composer, specializing in smooth jazz and New-age music.
Her mother, Emiko, took her to her first piano lesson in the June following her fifth birthday. Japanese tradition holds that a child who is introduced to lessons at this time will continue in those studies for a long time. The tradition held true for Matsui, who studied piano throughout her school years. Though her early training focused on classical music, in junior high school she developed an interest in jazz and began composing her own music.
She produced her album The Road (Shanachie, 2011) and recorded it with Richard Bona, Vinnie Colaiuta, Jackiem Joyner, and Kirk Whalum. She worked with Bob James on an album during the same year. Her album Soul Quest (2013) reached No. 6 on the jazz chart.
Matsui blends Western and Eastern music. She has a very spiritual view of composing music, feeling out each composition as though it were, in her words, "coming to me from another space, another dimension," and "catching notes from the silence and then simply placing them together". Matsui sees music as "the great gifts from the human souls from the past, for the children of the future".[3] She believes that music has a power to bring people together and change their lives. "We are connected by music", Matsui wrote, "as the Ocean connects the continents".A lover of nature, Matsui often makes reference to plants, animals, the elements, and other natural features and phenomena in her song titles. She shows a special fascination with the moon as a number of her compositions refer to the moon in their titles.

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