Keiko Matsui Photo Gallery
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Gallery pictures 1-45
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Gallery pictures 46-90
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Gallery pictures 91-120
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Gallery pictures 121-143
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Newsweek Cover
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k143.jpg Newsweek Japan cover with Keiko
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Barbados Jazz Festival
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k142.jpg Stanley Clarke with Keiko
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k141.jpg Sergio Mendes with Keiko
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k140.jpg Chuck Mangione with Keiko
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k139.jpg Bob James with Keiko
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k137.jpg BET Interview
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Backstage at John McLaughlin's Remember Shakti Tokyo concert
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k136.jpg Yumi Kudo (BEST jazz journalist), John,
Keiko and Kazu
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k135.jpg John McLaughlin and Keiko
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Computer background wallpaper
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kw1.jpg Size 942 x 652 x 24
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2004 Tokyo Metropolitan concert
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Yoshi's concert photos - Thank you to Vlad,
who took photos at our March '04 Yoshi's concert, and posted them in
a nice web gallery
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Carl Anderson photos
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k129.jpg Carl and his son Khalil
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k128.jpg Carl at the helm
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k127.jpg Carl Kazu on the boat
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k126.jpg Carl, Keiko, Kazu, Taliya
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k125.jpg Carl, Kazu, GeorgeBenson
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k124.jpg Backstage with Carl
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k123.jpg Carl and Keiko Backstage
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k122.jpg at "At My Place"
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k121.jpg Carl and Keiko, First session
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Keiko in Morocco
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2001 Smooth Jazz Oasis Awards
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k117.jpg Collage
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2001 Four Hands Concert Photos
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k116.jpg Four Hands Piano
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k115.jpg Four Hands Piano
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k114.jpg Kazu at the PA board
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k113.jpg Four hands Piano
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k112.jpg with Al Jarreau
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k111.jpg with Shogun Bob James
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2000 Concert Photos
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k110.jpg BET concert taping
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k109.jpg JVC Jazz Festival (Concord)
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k108.jpg JVC Jazz Festval (Hollywood Bowl)
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k107.jpg Keiko & Kazu with Keiko (Siberian
Husky) in Detroit
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DirecTV J Channel Interview
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Winter 2000
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For Japanese, cherry blossom is very special. We went to see them. They
last only a few days. For us, cherry blossom means new school year, new
friends, new teachers.
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k104.jpg Keiko, Maya and Mako
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k103.jpg Matsui family
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k102.jpg Maya at pre-school dance recital
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k101.jpg Skiing
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k100.jpg Snow sledding
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k099.jpg 1999 Oasis Award!
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More Keiko with
Bob James and David Benoit from Nov 99 in Tokyo (pictures at www.bobjames.com)
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With Bob James in New York
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We had recording session with legendary keyboard player Bob James at his
studio. This was for Keiko's upcoming album "Whisper from the Mirror".
The piece was very unique four-hand, one-piano piece. Bob and Keiko had
an interview with CD 101.9, after the recording, and they played the tune
together on-the-air at the radio station. NY recording in the winter was
nice. We had made so many albums in Los Angeles before, but NY in the winter
is something to be considered in future. Bob has very nice studio, which
has great view of Hudson River. We recorded piano on the all other tunes
at Bob's place.
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k098.jpg Keiko and Bob outdoors in NYC
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k097.jpg Interview at CD 101.9
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k096.jpg Keiko and Bob James playing four-hand
piano at Bob's studio
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Feb 00 Washington D.C. Concert
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Our annual concert with U.S .Air Force Orchestra was held at Constitution
Hall in Washington D.C. on Feb.13th. The place was full again. More than
3000 people lined up around the hall before the concert started. We also
had annual reception at Japanese Embassy after the concert.
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k095.jpg Meeting the Japanese Ambassador
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k094.jpg Keiko on big screen TV
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k093.jpg Kazu on big screen TV
k092.jpg Concert
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Smooth Jazz Cruise 1999
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k091.jpg With Mr. & Mrs. Reily
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k090.jpg Keiko with Jamaican musicians
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k089.jpg Keiko with new fan (picture taken
by Steve Snyder)
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k088.jpg Waiters singing at dinner
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k087.jpg Our ship, S.S. Norway
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k086.jpg Jamaica - No problem rafting
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k085.jpg Jamaica - before the rafting
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k084.jpg Formal dinner
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k083.jpg At the party
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k082.jpg Collage from Ventura concert
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k081.jpg Keiko in Ventura
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Summer 1999 Family Pictures
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k080.jpg Tanabata and seashore trip
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k079.jpg Swimming pool
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k078.jpg Keiko, Maya & Mako
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k077.jpg Keiko, Maya & Mako
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Keiko with Bob
James at a recording session for his new project (pictures at www.bobjames.com)
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Kazu in Poland for Maurice Jarre's concert
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k076.jpg Kazu with orchestra members
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k075.jpg Kazu and Maurice Jarre
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k074.jpg Kazu with Poland National Radio &
Television Orchestra
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1998 Fall Family Pictures
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k073.jpg Proud sisters after the ceremony.
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Maya wanted to do it again. But she is already 10 years old.
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k072.jpg We went to the shrine for Mako's Shichigosan
(Seven, Five, Three) rituals.
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Seven year old girls, and five year old boys, and three year
old girls receive blessing for their health. After the ceremony, Mako gets
special candies which is in that long bag.
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k071.jpg It was too easy to dig potatoes.
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So we tried Radish, too. Matsui girls and Maya's best friend
Yuiko, and the typical nice old Japanese farmer who gave us instructions
to dig things. Keiko dug spinach after this, for cooking of that night.
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k070.jpg Girls digging sweet potatoes. Kazu
was taking pictures.
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k069.jpg We went to dig sweet potatoes. This
was Mako's first Potato day.
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More details in our Nov 98
newsletter
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1998 Fall Tour Pictures
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k068.jpg Our Big Blue tour bus.
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The bus driver was Andrea, who looks like Pippi Longstockings.
The guy who is working in front of the bus is Dan, our lighting guy.
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k067.jpg With Mr. and Mrs. Kitaro.
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Kitaro lives in Boulder, Colorado. They came to see our concert.
We know each other, since we use same studio in North Hollywood.
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k066.jpg Keiko and the singer Randy Crawford.
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We did concert with Randy and Rick Braun in NY. They put
great show. Our show was great, too. Randy said she has been a fan of Keiko
for a long time. Maybe we should do an album with her.
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k065.jpg Sports Day for Maya
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k064.jpg Billboard collage
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k063.jpg Grave and Fish
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k062.jpg Maya and Mako
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k061.jpg Pictures from Thailandvacation
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k060.jpg Pictures from Thailandvacation
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More details in our Jan 98
newsletter
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"Mask of Zorro" recording in London (Kazu)
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k059.jpg My office
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The signatures are by composer James Horner and Actor Anthony
Hopkins. It was little bit scary to ask Mr. Hopkins' autograph, due to
the image from the movie "Silence of the Lambs". But I got it.
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k058.jpg Air Studio owned by George Martin
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This is converted from a church. The photo was taken from
the upstairs balcony where I sleep when I am not on the chart. "007" posters
are for the adjustment of the echo, I think. In London, most orchestrated
scores have been recorded here and Abbey Road.
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k057.jpg Dean Parks (right) and Ian Underwood
(left)
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Old friends. Two legendary musicians from L.A. Dean plays
guitar (Michael Jackson, Steely Dan, etc.). Ian was the first keyboardist
for Frank Zappa (also "Dude" by Q. Jones etc.). All three of us have two
daughters each (currently). So we bought two stuffed hedgehogs at Strathford
(each)
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k056.jpg After the session dinner party at
a Greek Restaurant
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Music Editor Jim Henricson has just finished "Titanic". Tony
Higgins who played panpipes and bagpipes in "Mission" "Brave Heart" etc.
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k055.jpg Keiko at the Breast Cancer support
press conference (at Conroy's Florist)
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k054.jpg Keiko at the Breast Cancer support
press conference, with actor Dennis Franz (NYPD Blue)
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1997 Summer Vacation!!
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k053.jpg Maya's first riding lesson #2
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k052.jpg Maya's first riding lesson
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Her favorite movie has been Black Stallion. She did very
well on Tony who is 23 years old.
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k051.jpg Maya's favorite sleeping spot at the
moon light sailing
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k050.jpg Maya and our boat #3
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k049.jpg Maya and our boat #2
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k048.jpg Maya and our boat #1
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Maya learning to start the engine first time. The teacher
is a long time sailing friend Tim. He knows our boat better than anyone.
When we got the boat 5 years ago, it came with him. He taught us so many
things.
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k047.jpg Bon Festival shops
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Bon Festivals always attract special temporary shops. These
shop keepers travel from festival to festival. Three girls are enjoying
"The Fishing Balloons", very famous simple toy, which you can only buy
at the festivals. Maya & Mako's matching clothes have been provided
by Leigh & Nanci Breez, our American neighbors and Maya's old friends.
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k046.jpg Bon Festival
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Near the fisherman's village, they had the Bon Festival.
When we have Bon Festival, the souls of ancestors come back. We lit special
lanterns to welcome them. Young people dance around the small stage on
which there is a big drum for the rhythm. Keiko's mother went to the temple
and had special ceremony to welcome her late husband and father who had
just passed 6 months ago.
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k045.jpg Rice Field
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We went to a short trip to the ocean side village. On the
way there, rice fields in the mountains were so beautiful. At the beginning
of the summer, greens in the water were pointing at the blue sky. Rice
fields are something special for Japanese people. Not only we eat rice
a lot, Samurais' salary used to be paid by rice, and feudal kings power
were judged by how much they held the rice fields. So we took this summer
photo in front of the green fields.
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By the way, do you know TOYOTA means "Rich rice field", and
HONDA means "True rice field", and MAZDA means "Pine tree rice field"?
Now please drive your Rice Field carefully.
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Photos 40-44 are great live concert photos taken by Mr. Peter Distefano
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k044.jpg Kazu playing shakuhachi
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k043.jpg Paul Taylor and Keiko
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k042.jpg Keiko behind keyboards
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k041.jpg Keiko with smoke
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k040.jpg Keiko
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k039.jpg Maya and Mako riding Don the Dragon
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(More details in our Nov 96
newsletter)
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k038.jpg Maya and Amanda
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JACCC concert in Los Angeles was some what special one. We
met a girl flying from Alaska all the way by herself, just to see Keiko's
concert. Her name is Amanda and she is 13 years old. Her grandmother who
came from San Francisco to meet her in LAX, brought her to the theater
in downtown L.A. Amanda plays Bass Clarinet and she is the biggest Keiko
fan in Alaska. We felt she was the messenger from Alaska, telling us that
we are doing good job. Her smile was like a gift from the nature, and she
stood there, like a spirit of the nature. (More details in the letters
section)
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k037.jpg Keiko with the staff at FM station
WJCD in Norfolk.
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k036.jpg Visiting WJCD in Norfolk. DJ Larry
made stickers from our poster newsletter.
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k035.jpg Keiko with Air Force Jazz Orchestra
members
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Photos 32-35 are from our Mar 97 gig in Washington D.C. We
have played Keiko's music with U.S. Air Force Jazz Orchestra at Constitution
Hall in D.C. (More details in our Mar 97
newsletter)
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k034.jpg Keiko and Kazu with Air Force Jazz
Orchestra members
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k033.jpg Rehersal
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k032.jpg Keiko with member of Air Force Jazz
Orchestra, Washington, D.C.
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k031.jpg Keiko, Brandy and George Duke; 1997
Essence Awards
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k030.jpg Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick and
Keiko; 1997 Essence Awards
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k029.jpg 1997 Matsui Family Calendar
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k028.jpg Grilled squids 1997, Keiko, Maya and
Mako
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k027.jpg New Year's Day 1997 Mako
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k026.jpg New Year's Day 1997 Keiko, Maya and
Mako
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Every New year, we go to a shrine to pray for family health.
Girls wear Kimonos and get a new arrow. The arrow is called evil breaking
arrow. After the prayer, usually Maya buys a cotton candy for herself and
a small toy for her baby sister, using her own savings. We eat grilled
squids, I do not know why, and go to visit some relatives.
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k025.jpg The sisters in Kimono on the new year's
day
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Mako (Mah-ko) is one year old. She has been raised by Keiko,
Keiko's mother, Kazu and her big sister Maya. We are all well and received
1997.
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k024.jpg Keiko, Maya, Hugh Masakela, Gerald
Albright and Chaka Khan
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(A Night on the Town Tour)
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k023.jpg Keiko and Jay Leno after her Tonight
Show appearance
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k022.jpg Kazu and George Lucas in London (Willow)
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k021.jpg Keiko in front of Tower Records Hollywood
(Doll)
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k020.jpg Happy New Year 1997 to our friends
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k019.jpg Maya's drawing
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Maya's drawing made the school calendar of 1997!!! So we
bought 30 of them and sent to friends. (More details in out Mar
97 newsletter)
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k018.jpg Maya taking calligraphy lesson
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When she was small, Keiko was taking Calligraphy lessons
every week. Her teacher lived far in the hills, and she walked to her teacher's
place after school. She loved it, so she stayed there for hours, using
many sheets of paper. Now Maya goes to her lessons with her grandmother
(Keiko's mom). Keiko's mother is already a very good Calligrapher, but
she likes taking lessons again. (Maya is writing the word "Mt. Fuji".)
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k017.jpg Unused glamour photo from Dream
Walk
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k016.jpg Back photo from Dream Walk
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k015.jpg Family photo, Kazu, Keiko, Maya and
Mako
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k014.jpg Family photo, Keiko, Maya and Mako
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k013.jpg Family photo, Kazu, Keiko, Maya and
Mako
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k012.jpg Band and tour members
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k011.jpg Yamaha publicity photo
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k010.jpg Unused publicity photo
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k009.jpg Unused photo from Sapphire
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k008.jpg Huntington Beach headshot, mid 80's
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k007.jpg Unused glamour photo
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k006.jpg Huntington Beach, mid 80's
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k005.jpg Unused photo from Dream Walk
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k004.jpg Publicity photo
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k003.jpg Unused photo from Sapphire
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k002.jpg Front photo from Sapphire
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k001.jpg Back photo from Sapphire
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