All About Jazz

The arrival of Yoko Miwa's Fadeless Flower brings a new jazz pianist to the table. Originally from Kobe, Japan, she studied piano with the father of Makoto Ozone, who burst onto the jazz scene in the 1980s...Read full review

Sounds of Timeless Jazz

She’s getting noticed in more ways than one! FADELESS FLOWER is the second release by The Yoko Miwa Trio and it is inviting, melodic and technically appealing. The pianist brings a state of grace to nine vivid compositions...Read full review

eJazz News

Though Miwa has filled this cd with her own compositions they often contain allusive echoes of other, older tunes. And I don’t mean that she has slavishly replicated fragments from the standards repertoire... Read full review

All About Jazz

If the music is the arbiter then the title Fadeless Flower is an apt one. Yoko Miwa has filled it with compositions that are not only drenched in melody but also give the performers a chance to open them and let them bloom...Read full review

Audiophile Audition

Another outstanding Japanese female jazz piano star is with us, hard on the heels of the phenomenal Hiromi (reviewed twice here last month). This is already the second album as leader for Ms. Miwa...Read full review

jazzreview.com

Born half a world away, and coincidentally taught by Makoto Ozone's father, Minoru, Yoko Miwa has developed her technique and found her own voice through years of classical music and jazz study and through performances in Boston...Read full review

The Berkshire Eagle

The nine original compositions on Yoko Miwa's new trio release are deceptive — swinging, pulsating, alluring melodies and ballads in the guise of straight-ahead trio jazz...Read full review

Jazz Society of Oregon

This lovely native of Japan and Boston's Berklee College of Music plays with passion and authority with her trio of Greg Loughman, bass and Scott Goulding, drums. The nine tunes are all originals, and Miwa brings a breathless touch and delicate phrasing...Read full review

All Music Guide

Yoko Miwa's regular gig is with the Ryles Jazz Orchestra in Boston, her adopted home since she left the classical world behind and took advantage of a Berklee scholarship to complete the jazz studies she'd begun in her native Japan. ...Read full review