Junko mine

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Junko Mine ( Japanese 峰 純 子 , Mine Junko , * around 1950 ) is a Japanese jazz singer .

Junko Mine worked in the Tokyo jazz scene from the 1970s; In 1975 she recorded her debut album A Child Is Born there for Trio Records , which featured jazz standards such as “ My Funny Valentine ”, “ I Can't Give You Anything but Love ”, “ On the Sunny Side of the Street ”, “ A Child Is Born ”and“ Here's That Rainy Day ”included. She was accompanied by the American guest musicians Thad Jones , Walter Norris , George Mraz and Mel Lewis . In 1976 another standards album followed, Pre Morning (Trio Records), with Sir Roland Hanna , George Mraz and Donald Bailey . In 1977 a joint album was created with Barney Kessel ( Junko and Barney - A Tribute to the Great Hollywood Stars , with Kunimitsu Inaba and Tetsujiro Obara ); she also appeared - accompanied by Clifford Jordan , Norman Simmons , Lisle Atkinson and Al Harewood - at the New York jazz club Storyville . This was followed by a big band production with Hidehiko Matsumoto ( I Wish You Love , inter alia with Terumichi Yamada ) and two other albums, on which the pianist Hank Jones was involved, Once in the Evening (1979, with George Duvivier , Shelly Manne ) and Jesse (1980, with Duvivier and Grady Tate ).

With Bill Perkins , Bill Reichenbach junior , Conte Candoli , Red Mitchell , Larry Bunker , Mundell Lowe and Lou Levy , Mine recorded a Cole Porter tribute album in California in 1979 ( You're the Top ). In 1986 she recorded her last studio album, Love Me Tender , with Sam Most , Hank Jones and Gene Harris , Ray Brown , Alan Dawson and Mickey Roker . In 1988 a live recording was made from a Tokyo nightclub, Junko Sings Ballads at Good Day Club (with Takenori Sawaki , Shubi Arima , Shigeharu Sasamoto and Kazuo Nakamichi ). In the field of jazz she was involved in 13 recording sessions between 1975 and 1988.

The Jazz Forum , the magazine of the International Jazz Federation, counted her together with Martha Miyake among the leading jazz singers in Japan at the end of the 1970s .

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  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 10, 2017)
  2. ^ Jazz Forum: The Magazine of the International Jazz Federation . ed. from the European Jazz Federation / International Jazz Federation, 1979
personal data
SURNAME Mine, Junko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 峰 純 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1950