Jun'ichirō Ōkuchi
Jun'ichirō Ōkuchi or Junichiro Ohkuchi ( Japanese 大 口 純 一郎 , Ōkuchi Jun'ichirō ; * around 1955) is a Japanese jazz pianist .
Junichiro Ohkuchi played in the Japanese jazz scene from the 1970s a. a. with Tomoki Takahashi ( Another Soil (1980), inter alia with Elvin Jones and Shigeharu Mukai ). In the 90s he was a. a. the Kōsuke Mine Quintet ( Major to Minor , Verva , 1990) and the Yoshio Otomo Quartet ( Oh Friends , 1997); also worked as an arranger for the singer Tokiko Kato . From 2009 he worked with the flutist Noriko Kojima , on whose albums Lush Life and Songs for My Sake he participated; In 2015 he accompanied the singer Mariko Kajiwara (Pitter Patter) . In a trio with Yasushi Yoneki (double bass) and Tamaya Honda (drums) Ohkuchi recently recorded the album Invisible , with cover versions of well-known jazz compositions such as "Let's Call This", "Miles Ahead" or "Time Remembered".
Web links
- Web presence
- Jun'ichirō Ōkuchi at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ōkuchi, Jun'ichirō |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ohkuchi, Junichiro; 大 口 純 一郎 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1955 |