Tokyo female jazz pianist Yoshiko Kishino graduated from Tohhoh music college, won the keyboard prize in the Yamaha Popular Contest and, in 1990, went to New York to study composition. In 1993 she lead her first group, Brand New. Her first album Fairy Tale (GRP 1995) won her the Golden Disk with Japanese jazz magazine SwingJournal. She has worked together with musicians like Marc Johnson or Peter Arskin. Yoshiko Kishino plays in the lyrical style of the Bill Evans school.

Track Listings:
1. Night and Day (Cole Porter)
2. Scarborough Fair (Paul Simon-Art Garfunkel)
3. Desart Island (Yoshiko Kishino)
4. All Blues (Miles Davis)
5. Longing for You (Yoshiko Kishino)
6. Alone Together (Howard Dietz-Arthur Schwartz)
7. Photograph (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
8. Alice in Wonderland (Sammy Fain-Bob Hillard)
9. On Green Dolphin Street (Ned Washington-Bronislow Kaper)
10. Love Dance (Paul Williams-Ivan Lins-Victor Martins)
11. J's Waltz (Yoshiko Kishino)
12. Autumn (Yoshiko Kishino)

Personnel:
Yoshiko Kishino, piano
Marc Johnson, bass
Paul Motian, drums (4, 5, 10)
Bill Stewart, drums
Romero LuBambo, guitar (3, 7, 11)

Recorded: NYC, March 2-4, 1996