Terumasa Hino
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is a Japan
ese jazz
trumpeter. Currently based in New York
, Hino is widely acknowledged as one of Japan
's finest jazz musicians. His instruments include the trumpet, cornet and flügelhorn
.
when he was 9 years old. In the 1950s, Hino began his career as a professional jazz musician; his music being inspired by Fumio Nanri
and Hiroshi Sakaue. In 1965, after working with several noted jazz artists, he joined Hideo Shiraki
's Quintet, with whom he stayed till 1969, leaving to lead his own band full-time, which he had started in 1964. In 1969, Hino released the album Hi-nology, released to critical acclaim and success, and soon after performed in several jazz festivals and clubs worldwide, such as the Berliner Jazztage in 1971 and Munich Jazzclub in 1973, and working with Masabumi Kikuchi
in 1974, before settling in New York in 1975.
Upon settling in New York, Hino worked with numerous artists in the following years, including Joachim Kuhn
, Gil Evans
, Jackie McLean
, Ken McIntyre
, Dave Liebman
, Hal Galper
, Carlos Garnett
, Sam Jones
and Elvin Jones
, as well as leading his own group, which is credited by the jazz guitarist John Scofield
for him turning from fusion
to jazz. Beginning from the 1980s, Hino spent more time in Japan and helped incorporate several elements such as avant garde and fusion into his music. Since then, he has toured several countries and regions, including Europe
in the 1990s. In 1996, he performed again with Masabumi Kikuchi
, also performing the session with noted saxophonist Greg Osby
.
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
trumpeter. Currently based in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, Hino is widely acknowledged as one of Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
's finest jazz musicians. His instruments include the trumpet, cornet and flügelhorn
Flugelhorn
The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...
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Biography
Hino's exposure to music began at a young age, with his father, a step dancer and trumpeter, teaching him tap dancing when he was 4 years old. He soon began performing with the trumpetTrumpet
The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
when he was 9 years old. In the 1950s, Hino began his career as a professional jazz musician; his music being inspired by Fumio Nanri
Fumio Nanri
was a jazz trumpeter nicknamed the "Satchmo of Japan" by Louis Armstrong. He was one of Japan's first jazz musicians to become known outside his native country...
and Hiroshi Sakaue. In 1965, after working with several noted jazz artists, he joined Hideo Shiraki
Hideo Shiraki
Hideo Shiraki was a Japanese jazz drummer and bandleader, best known for his work in the 1950s and 1960s. Famed earlier on for hard bop, he later explored world jazz.- Biography :...
's Quintet, with whom he stayed till 1969, leaving to lead his own band full-time, which he had started in 1964. In 1969, Hino released the album Hi-nology, released to critical acclaim and success, and soon after performed in several jazz festivals and clubs worldwide, such as the Berliner Jazztage in 1971 and Munich Jazzclub in 1973, and working with Masabumi Kikuchi
Masabumi Kikuchi
is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer born in Tokyo, Japan, notable for working with a variety of well known jazz musicians such as Lionel Hampton, Sonny Rollins, Woody Herman, Mal Waldron, Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Miles Davis, Billy Harper and Hannibal Peterson.-Select...
in 1974, before settling in New York in 1975.
Upon settling in New York, Hino worked with numerous artists in the following years, including Joachim Kuhn
Joachim Kühn
-Biography:Kühn was a musical prodigy and made his debut as a concert pianist, having studied classical piano and composition with Arthur Schmidt-Elsey. Influenced by his elder brother, clarinetist Rolf Kühn, he simultaneously got interested in jazz. In 1961 he became a professional jazz musician....
, Gil Evans
Gil Evans
Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader, active in the United States...
, Jackie McLean
Jackie McLean
John Lenwood McLean was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, born in New York City.-Biography:McLean's father, John Sr., played guitar in Tiny Bradshaw's orchestra...
, Ken McIntyre
Makanda Ken McIntyre
Makanda Ken McIntyre was an American jazz musician and composer.-Biography:McIntyre was born in Boston, Massachusetts...
, Dave Liebman
Dave Liebman
Dave Liebman is an American saxophonist and flautist. In June 2010, he received a NEA Jazz Masters lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts.-Biography:...
, Hal Galper
Hal Galper
-Biography:He studied classical piano as a boy, but switched to jazz which he studied at the Berklee College of Music from 1955 to 1958. He hung out at Herb Pomeroy's club, The Stable, hearing local Boston musicians like Jackie Byard, Alan Dawson and Sam Rivers. Galper started sitting in and became...
, Carlos Garnett
Carlos Garnett
Carlos Garnett is a Panamanian-American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and jazz group leader.Garnett was born on December 1, 1938, in Red Tank, Panama Canal Zone. He became interested in jazz music after hearing Louis Jordan's and James Moody's music in film shorts...
, Sam Jones
Samuel Jones (musician)
Samuel Jones was a jazz bassist, cellist, and composer.Sam Jones was born in Jacksonville, FL and moved to New York city in 1955. There, Jones played with Bobby Timmons, Tiny Bradshaw, Les Jazz Modes, Kenny Dorham, Illinois Jacquet, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk...
and Elvin Jones
Elvin Jones
Elvin Ray Jones was a jazz drummer of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan....
, as well as leading his own group, which is credited by the jazz guitarist John Scofield
John Scofield
John Scofield , often referred to as "Sco," is an American jazz guitarist and composer, who has played and collaborated with Miles Davis, Dave Liebman, Joe Henderson, Charles Mingus, Joey Defrancesco, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Pat Martino, Mavis Staples, Phil Lesh, Billy Cobham,...
for him turning from fusion
Fusion (music)
A fusion genre is music that combines two or more styles. For example, rock and roll originally developed as a fusion of blues, gospel and country music. The main characteristics of fusion genres are variations in tempo, rhythm, i a sometimes the use of long musical "journeys" that can be divided...
to jazz. Beginning from the 1980s, Hino spent more time in Japan and helped incorporate several elements such as avant garde and fusion into his music. Since then, he has toured several countries and regions, including Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
in the 1990s. In 1996, he performed again with Masabumi Kikuchi
Masabumi Kikuchi
is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer born in Tokyo, Japan, notable for working with a variety of well known jazz musicians such as Lionel Hampton, Sonny Rollins, Woody Herman, Mal Waldron, Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Miles Davis, Billy Harper and Hannibal Peterson.-Select...
, also performing the session with noted saxophonist Greg Osby
Greg Osby
Greg Osby is an American jazz saxophonist who plays mainly in the free jazz, free funk and M-Base idioms.-Biography:Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Osby studied at Howard University, where he majored in Jazz Studies, and then at the Berklee College of Music, with Andy McGhee...
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As leader
- Alone, Alone and Alone (1967)
- Hino=Kikuchi QuintetHino=Kikuchi QuintetHino=Kikuchi Quintet is a jazz album by Terumasa Hino and Masabumi Kikuchi. It was released in 1968 under Columbia Records, as part of the Takt Jazz Series.- Track listing :All tracks composed by Kikuchi.#"Tender Passion" - 9:18...
(1968, Takt) - Hi-NologyHi-NologyHi-Nology is a free jazz album by Terumasa Hino. It was released in 1969 under Columbia Records, as part of the Takt Jazz Series.- Personnel :* Terumasa Hino - trumpet* Takeru Muraoka - tenor sax* Hiromasa Suzuki - electric piano...
(1969, Takt) - Feelin' Good (1969, Takt)
- Alone TogetherAlone Together (Terumasa Hino album)Alone Together is a free jazz album by Terumasa Hino. It was released in 1970 under Columbia Records, as part of the Takt Jazz Series.- Track listing :#"Alone Together" – 18:01#"Satsuki" – 11:24#"Make Left" – 9:11...
(1970, Takt) - Journey to Air (1970, CanyonPony Canyonis a Japanese company, established on October 1, 1966 , which publishes music, DVD and VHS videos, movies and video games. It is a subsidiary of Japanese Media Group, Fujisankei Communications Group.-History:...
) - Vibrations (1971, EnjaEnja RecordsEnja Records is a German jazz record label based in Munich, Germany. It was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971....
) - Fuji (1972, Enja)
- Hartman Meets Hino (1972, EMI Japan)
- Taro's Mood (1973, Enja)
- Live!Live! (Terumasa Hino album)Live! is a jazz live album by Terumasa Hino Quintet. It was released and recorded in 1973 and features long, improvised pieces.- Track listing :# "Stella by Starlight" - 12:12# "Sweet Lullaby" - 7:41# "Be and Know" - 28:35...
(1973, Three Blind MiceThree Blind MiceThree Blind Mice is an English nursery rhyme and musical round. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3753.-Lyrics:The modern words are:-Variations and uses:Amateur music composer Thomas Oliphant noted in 1843 that:...
) - Into Eternity (1974, Columbia RecordsColumbia RecordsColumbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
) - Journey Into My MindJourney into My MindJourney Into My Mind is a free jazz album by Terumasa Hino. It was released in 1974 under Sony Records as SRCS 9330.- Track listing :All tracks composed by Hino, unless otherwise noted.#"Oriental Dance" – 5:44...
(1974) - Speak To Loneliness (1975, East WindEast Wind RecordsEast Wind was a Japanese jazz record label.Among their most prominent artists were "The Great Jazz Trio", a group that has included Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, Hank Jones, Richard Davis, Ron Carter.-Discography:-External links:**...
) - Live In Concert (1975, East Wind)
- Wheel Stone: Live in Nemuro (1975, East Wind)
- May Dance (1977, Flying Disk)
- Live Under The Sky (1977, Flying Disk)
- Hip Seagull (1977, Flying Disk)
- Le Chanson D'Orphee (1978, RCA RecordsRCA RecordsRCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...
) - Double Rainbow (1981, CBS, Sony)
- Terumasa Hino (1986, DenonDenonis a Japanese electronics company that was involved in the early stages of development of digital audio technology, while specializing in the manufacture of high-fidelity professional and consumer audio equipment. For many decades, Denon was a brand name of Nippon-Columbia, including the Nippon...
) - Bluestruck (1990, Blue NoteBlue Note RecordsBlue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...
) - From The Heart (1991, Blue Note)
- Warsaw Jazz Festival 1991 (1993, Jazzmen)
- Unforgettable (1993, Blue Note)
- Triple Helix (1994, Enja)
- Spark (1994, Blue Note)
- With Kikuchi Acoustic Boogie (1996, Blue Note; collaboration with Masabumi Kikuchi)
- Live In Warsaw (1996, Who's Who In Jazz)
- Into The Heaven (2000, Columbia Records)