Keiki Midorikawa
Keiki Midorikawa ( Japanese 翠 川 敬 基 , Midorikawa Keiki ; born May 10, 1949 ) is a Japanese jazz musician ( double bass , cello ).
Keiki Midorikawa played in the Japanese free jazz scene a. a. in the trio of Itaru Oki , with whom the first recordings were made (Homicide Classroom) . He also worked in the formations Cosmic Pulsation Unity , and FMT , in the Masahiko Togashi Trio / Quartet, in the Steve Lacy Sextet ( The Wire , 1975), with Anthony Braxton ( Four Compositions (1973) , with Masahiko Satoh , Hozumi Tanaka ), in Masahiko Satoh's band Garandoh , in the Now Music Ensemble (Inspiration & Power 14 (1973), with Hozumi Tanaka, Tadashi Yoshida, Kazutoshi Kakubari, Yoshiaki Fujikawa, Hiroaki Katayama).
In 1975 Midorikawa played the album Five Pieces of Cake (Offbeat) under his own name , on which Tadashi Yoshida , Yoshiaki Fujikawa , Hiroaki Katayama and Shōji Nakayama took part; In 1976 the album Green Revolution followed , which contained duos with Masahiko Satoh and Masayuki Takayanagi . In 1984 he performed with the East Asia Orchestra on the Berlin Jazz Stage . In the field of jazz he was involved in 27 recording sessions between 1970 and 1986, most recently in a duo with Peter Kowald in an FMP production in Tokyo.
Web links
- Keiki Midorikawa at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Midorikawa, Keiki |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 翠 川 敬 基 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1949 |