Yūji Ōno
Yūji Ōno , also Yuji Ohno ( Japanese 大野 雄 二 , Ōno Yūji ; born May 30, 1941 in Atamai , Shizuoka Prefecture ) is a Japanese funk , pop and jazz musician (piano, arrangement, composition, bandleader) 1970s worked primarily as a film composer .
Life
From the 1960s on, Yūji Ōno played in the Japanese jazz scene with Martha Miyake (who made the first recordings in 1960), Hiroshi Suzuki , Masahiko Togashi , Terumasa Hino and with Hideo Shiraki / Yuzo Kayama, among others . Around 1970 he began to work with his own trio (with Takashi Mizuhashi , double bass and Kazuyoshi Okayama , drums); At a concert in the Ginza Yamaha Hall, a live recording was made with singer Kimiko Kasai ( Just Friends ).
With his numerous band projects influenced by American role models such as Marvin Gaye , such as The Explosion Band, Galaxy, Yuji Ohno & His Project and King Kong Hunters , he was mainly active in pop music in the following years , with a number of studio albums and as a film composer and orchestra conductor and musicians for anime films and series such as Lupine III (1978, directed by Sōji Yoshikawa , Yasuo Ōtsuka ), The Castle of Cagliostro (1979, directed by Hayao Miyazaki ), Captain Future and Lupine III (2015) . In 1978 Ōno recorded the fusion album Space Kid (CBS / SONY) with Jake Conception , Tsunehide Matsuki , Akira Okazawa , Yasushi Ichihara, among others . In 2007 the album Lupine the Third Jazz - What's Going On was created , in which Yuji Ohno & Lupinti Five (with Keiji Matsushima , Hisatsugu Suzuki , Satoshi Izumi , Masayuki Tawarayama , Yoshihito Eto ) played jazz arrangements of his film music for the Lupine II series. In the field of jazz he was involved in 22 recording sessions between 1960 and 2007.
Web links
- Web presence
- Filmography in Anime Network
- Yūji Ōno at Discogs (English)
- Yuji Ohno at Allmusic (English)
- Yuji Ōno in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
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SURNAME | Ōno, Yūji |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ohno, Yuji; 大野 雄 二 (Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese jazz musician and film composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1941 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Atamai , Shizuoka Prefecture |