Hideto Kanai

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Hideto Kanai ( Japanese 金井 英人 , Kanai Hideto ; * 1931 in Tokyo Prefecture ; † April 8, 2011 ) was a Japanese jazz musician ( double bass ).

Act

Hideto Kanai played in the Tokyo jazz scene from the mid-1950s; In 1956 he was a member of the jazz academy organized by musicians such as Masabumi Kikuchi and Masahiko Togashi . The first recordings were made in 1957/58 a. a. with the singer Kiyoko Maruyama. During this time he was also a member of the All-Stars-Band of the Swing Journal and performed with a collectively organized big band ( Modern Jazz Composer's Corner ). In the early 1960s he played with Yosuke Yamashita ; Together with the guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi and the artist Isamu Kageyama, Kanai founded the New Century Music Research Workshop (similar to the AACM-oriented) musicians' collective in 1965 .

After several years without recording activity, Kanai recorded his post-bop- oriented debut album Q in 1971 . a. Masamichi Suzuki, Kohsuke Mine , Allan Praskin , Tadayuki Harada and Motohiko Hino contributed. In the 1970s he also worked with Toshiyuki Miyama , Shuko Mizuno , Tatsuya Nakamura and in the Tea and Company formation . In 1978 the album was recorded in quintet Concierto de Aranjuez ( Three Blind Mice , with Toshihiko Inoue , Mikinori Fujiwara , Yoshito Ohsawa , Mike Reznikoff ), in a similar occupation (with pianist Fumio Yasuda ) followed by the Mingus -Tributalbum What . In the 1980s and early 1990s he still worked with Tatsuya Nakamura, Yoshiaki Miyanoue , Takayuki Kato, and Mikinori Fujiwara. In the field of jazz, he was involved in 27 recording sessions between 1957 and 1991.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz, edited by the late Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler, 2007
  2. ^ The Wire, Issues 257-262, 2005
  3. ↑ With Kenji Mori (ts, sop), Takao Uematsu (ts), Masaru Imada (p), Masayuki Takayanagi (git), Nobuyoshi Ino (kb), Hiroshi Murakami (dr) and Yūji Imamura (perc).
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 7, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Kanai, Hideto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 金井英 人 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo prefecture
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 2011