Hiroshi Matsumoto
Hiroshi Matsumoto ( Japanese 松本 博 , Matsumoto Hiroshi ; * around 1945) is a Japanese jazz musician ( vibraphone , piano , also keyboards , e-piano ).
Hiroshi Matsumoto, who worked in the Tokyo jazz scene from the 1960s, recorded a Bossa Nova album with his band Hiroshi Matsumoto & The Bluenights ( Bossa Nova in Tokyo , Nivico 1967). The following album My Funny Valentine (Columbia, with Akira Miyazawa , Hideo Ichikawa , Sadanori Nakamure , Tsuneo Shibata , Kazunori Kondo and the singer Mizue Yamazaki ) followed in 1968. He played in 1969 with Sadao Watanabe ; Together with the Hideo Ichikawa Quartet, he presented the studio album Megalopolis in 1969 , followed by Groovy Indeed , which was written around 1970 and on which Koji Hatori (tp), Yasuhiro Tomoto (tb), Akira Miyazawa, Masaru Imada , Sadanori Nakamure, Masaoki Terakawa and Takeshi Inomata participated.
In the 1970s he played a. a. with Shigeharu Mukai , Takao Uematsu , Kazumi Watanabe , Kazuo Takeda , Shuichi Murakami , Shigeru Okazawa and Hidefumi Toki in the formation Kaleidoscope (the album of the same name was released by Denon in 1978), also with Kazumi Watanabe, Yasuaki Shimizu and Bingo Miki . In the field of jazz he was involved in 10 recording sessions between 1968 and 1980, most recently with Himiko Kikuchi ( Flashing , including with Ernie Watts ).
Web links
- Hiroshi Matsumoto at Discogs (English)
- Hiroshi Matsumoto at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Matsumoto, Hiroshi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 松本 博 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1945 |