Hiroshi Murata
Hiroshi Murata ( Japanese 村田 浩 , Murata Hiroshi ; * around 1955) is a Japanese jazz musician ( trumpet , also flugelhorn , cornet ) who plays in the hardbop tradition stylistically .
Hiroshi Murata worked in the Japanese jazz scene a. a. with the Hiroshi Tamura Trio & Quintet, with whom the first recordings were made ( What aBop , 1977). In the following years he played a. a. with Jimmy Takeuchi , Osamu Kawakami , Shingo Okudaira ( Maiden Voyage , 1978) and Tsuyoshi Yamamoto ( Well You Needn't , 1979), from the mid-1980s with Yosuke Yamashita ( Jazz Daimyo ) and Masato Imazu ( It's Too Bright , 1988 ).
Murata recorded the album The Blues Walk (GML) under his own name in 1992 with his bop band (with Seiji Tada , Jun Hakamazuka , Shigeo Aramaki , Ken Nakamura ) ; on it are jazz classics like Cole Porter's I've Got You Under My Skin , Little Melonae by Jackie McLean , Falling in Love with Love by Rodgers and Hart and Out of the Past by Benny Golson . In the 2000s, the productions Be Bop and Straight Ahead followed . The discographer Tom Lord lists his participation in jazz between 1977 and 2005 at 12 recording sessions.
Discographic notes
- Be Bop (What's New), 2003, with Kazunori Sawada , Hiroshi Tamura, Noboru Ando , Shingo Yamaguchi
- Straight Ahead (What's New), 2005, with Kazunori Sawada, Zengel Matsumoto , Nobuyuki Yano , Keita Miyaoka
Web links
- Hiroshi Murata at Discogs (English)
- Hiroshi Murata at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Murata, Hiroshi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 村田 浩 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1955 |