Riyoko Takagi Trio

A jazz concert by the Riyoko Takagi Trio at Toulouse Lautrec in London, presented within the EFG London Jazz Festival and led by the Japanese pianist Riyoko Takagi.

Riyoko Takagi is a Japanese jazz pianist born in Tokyo in 1984. Active since 2009, she has recorded for the label Avex Trax, and her first album is Salone (2015). This London date is part of the EFG London Jazz Festival, and the pianist returns to the city after earlier UK appearances at Toulouse Lautrec.

The trio performance also names Klara Devlin among the performers. The programme centres on improvisation and new readings of familiar jazz standards, with each piece reshaped in a fresh way. Riyoko Takagi's pianism is presented as the focus of the evening, with the playing built around these reinterpretations rather than a single original repertoire.

Toulouse Lautrec, at 140 Newington Butts, is a venue that mainly hosts concerts, with a focus on jazz. The night is aimed at listeners who follow jazz standards and enjoy hearing them reworked through improvisation in a small-group setting.