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Junko Onishi Biography
Post-bop jazz artist favorably compared to jazz great McCoy Tyner and admired contemporaries Kenny Kirkland and Mulgrew Miller.
She studied at the Berklee College of Music after which she relocated to New York City.
Her song Trinity was featured in Blue Note: A Story of Modern Jazz, a 1997 documentary.
She was born in Kyoto and grew up in Tokyo where her family nurtured her talents by enrolling her in classical piano lessons.
She credited Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, and Ornette Coleman as being her artistic inspirations.
Junko Onishi (大西 順子 , Ōnishi Junko, born April 16, 1967 in Kyoto) is a Japanese jazz pianist; she plays in the post-bop genre.
Onishi stopped performing in the late 1990s, having chosen to study and practice. When Jaki Byard, her mentor at that time, died in 1999, she stopped playing completely for two years: “I felt like I lost everything; I felt like I didn’t have any more mentors”. She had to redevelop her technique when she decided to return, and started going to a gym to help her cope with the physical demands of playing.
In May 1994, Junko Japanese played for a week at the Village Vanguard, with Wynton Marsalis’s sidemen, bassist Reginald Veal, and drummer Herlin Riley.
Onishi appeared in the documentary Blue Note: A Story of Modern Jazz (1997), playing the song “Trinity” (“Quick”) from her album Play, Piano, Play.
Blue Note released her trio album, Musical Moments in 2009. Baroque (Verve), with Onishi leading a much larger group, followed a year later.
What's Junko Onishi Net Worth 2024
| Net Worth (2024) | $1 Million (Approx.) |
| Net Worth (2023) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2022) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2021) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2020) | Under Review |
Junko Onishi Family
| Father's Name | Not Available |
| Mother's Name | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Available |
| Childrens | Not Available |
