Kanji Ōta
Kanji Ōta or Kanji Ohta ( Japanese 太 田 寛 二 , Ōta Kanji ; * 1959 ) is a Japanese jazz musician (piano).
Kanji Ōta worked in the Japanese jazz scene from the 1970s a. a. with Fumio Watanabe , with whom the first recordings were made in 1979 ( Fumio ), in the following years also with Yoshiaki Miyanoue ( Groovin 'High ) and in the trio of drummer Shinji Mori ( Sweet Pumpkin , 1987). In early 1981 he played his debut album Blue Highland for Crown ; his trio included Satoshi Kosugi and Kazuyoshi Okayama . During a stay in New York in mid-2001 he recorded the album If You Could See Me Now with Earl May and Jimmy Lovelace ; then he interpreted jazz standards such as " Yesterdays ", " All the Things You Are " and " Out of Nowhere ". From the 2000s he worked with the singer Nabulo Kiryu ( Singin Love , 2002). In the field of jazz, Tom Lord lists him in ten recording sessions between 1979 and 2013.
He also played a. a. with saxophonist Toru Ambo ( Misty Night , with Teiji Sasaki , bass and Kenichiro Murata , drums). In 2002, on the occasion of the 15th wedding anniversary with the pianist Toshiko Kiryu, the live recording of Kanji Ohta & The Jazz Family with Jimmy Heath : Our Jazz Family was made , on which, in addition to Heath, Earl May and Jimmy Lovelace as well as Toshiko Kiryu and their daughter Nabuko Kiryu (vocals ) were involved. In 2015 he presented the album This Is No Laughing Matter .
Web links
- Web presence
- Kanji Ōta at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 16, 2017)
- ↑ Dan Bilawski: Kanji Ohta & The Jazz Family with Jimmy Heath: Our Jazz Family (2013) at All About Jazz
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ōta, kanji |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ohta, Kanji; 太 田 寛 二 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |