Jake Shimabukuro Ukulele Solo live at 41st German Jazzfestival Frankfurt 2010

Jake Shimabukuro | ukulele

recorded live at HR Sendesaal Frankfurt, October 30, 2010

1. Introduction
2. One For Three
3. Dragon
4. Bring Your Adz
5. Blue Roses Falling
6. Me & Shirley T
7. Let´s Dance Flamenco Ukulele
8. Sakura Sakura (Japanese Traditional)
9. Spain (Chick Corea)
10. Orange World
11. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (George Harrison)
12. Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
13. Ave Maria (Franz Schubert)

It's rare for a young musician to earn comparisons to the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis. It's even harder to find an artist who has entirely redefined an instrument by his early thirties. But Jake Shimabukuro (she-ma-boo-koo-row) has already accomplished these feats, and more, in a little over a decade of playing and recording music. As the San Francisco Gate recently posited about the Hawaiian musician: "The sounds the boyish 33-year old wrings from his ukulele…are unlike anything else in the history of the instrument."

Yes, the ukulele. In the hands of Jake Shimabukuro, the traditional Hawaiian instrument of four strings and two octaves is stretched and molded into a complex and bold new musical force. On an album like his new ‘Peace Love Ukulele,' Jake and his "uke" effortlessly (it seems) mix jazz, rock, classical, traditional Hawaiian music and folk, creating a sound that's both technically masterful and emotionally powerful…and utterly unique in the music world.

Jake released som great albums, for example the 2009 CD "Live"