Kazuhide Motooka
Kazuhide Motooka ( Japanese 元 岡 一 英 , Motooka Kazuhide ; * around 1950) is a Japanese jazz musician (piano, composition).
Kazuhide Motooka worked in the Japanese jazz scene a. a. in Shigeharu Mukai's quintet , with whom the first recordings were made in 1974 ( For My Liitle Bird , Nippon Columbia). In the following years he also played with Hiroshi Hatsuyama , Tomoki Takahashi and Chiko Honda . In 1984 he released the solo album Dosanko Walk (Aketa's Disk) under his own name , on which he interpreted not only his own compositions but also jazz standards such as " Blue Monk ", " Take the" A "Train " and " Well You Needn't ". From the 1990s on he played with Hideo Oyama and accompanied the singers Michiko Suzuki ( Sweet & Bitter , 2003, with Frank Wess , among others ) and Yukari Matsuoka ( Song Travels , 2012, with Yutaka Yoshida , Kazuaki Yokoyama ). In the field of jazz, Tom Lord lists him in 17 recording sessions between 1974 and 2012.
Discographic notes
- I'll Remember April , with Shinji Matsumoto
- Tokyo Dusk (Aketa, 2012), with Satoshi Kosugi , Fumio Watanabe
Web links
- Kazuhide Motooka at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 10, 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Motooka, Kazuhide |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 元 岡 一 英 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1950 |