Eiichi Hayashi

Eiichi Hayashi ( Japanese 林栄一 , Hayashi Eiichi ; born January 1, 1950 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz musician ( alto saxophone , also soprano saxophone, percussion).

Eiichi Hayashi played in the Tokyo jazz scene with Yosuke Yamashita from the 1980s . In 1983 he performed with the Yamashita Quartet on the Berlin Jazz Stage ; he also worked with Yoshiaki Fujikawa and Yutaka Imaizumi in the late 1980s . In 1990 he recorded his debut album with his own compositions with Akihiro Ishiwatari (guitar), Tamio Kawabata , Norikatsu Koreyasu (bass), Nobuo Fujii , Takuji Kusumoto (drums) ( Eiichi Hayashi & Mazuru - Mazuru , also Mazuru's Dream ); In 1997 the free jazz- oriented solo album Oto no Tsubu ( 音の folg ) followed on the label Off Note, and in 2003 the trio production The Crushed Pellet (with Otomo Yoshihide and Toyozumi Yoshisaburo ).

From the 1990s he also worked with Hiroaki Katayama and Junichiro Matsukawa in the jazz-rock formation De-Ga-Show , also in the Aki Takase Septet ( Oriental Express, 1996), with the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra and with Hayakawa Takeharu ( Kowloon , 2002). In the field of jazz he was involved in 37 recording sessions between 1981 and 2009. In the later years he shifted more to freer forms of jazz and performed a. a. in a trio with Ryuichi Yoshida and Aki Ono as well as with the pianist Yukie Fujikawa .

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