Ken'ichi Tsunoda
Ken'ichi Tsunoda ( Japanese 角 田 健 一 , Tsunoda Ken'ichi , * 1951 ) is a Japanese jazz musician (trombone, arrangement) and big band leader.
Ken'ichi Tsunoda studied at the Tōhō-Gakuen-Musikhochschule ( Toho Gakuen School of Music ). He began his career as a jazz musician in the late 1970s in Toshiyuki Miyama's big band New Herd , interrupted by a period of study at the Boston School of Music, where he studied composition and arrangement. In the following years he played in Nobuo Hara's band Sharps & Flats and in the mid-1980s in the Tokyo Union Big Band under the direction of Tatsuya Takahashi . From the late 1990s he worked with his own big band, with whom he recorded several albums, such as the album Savanna in mid-1997 . In the field of jazz, Tom Lord lists him in ten recording sessions between 1978 and 2003.
Tsunoda dedicated his 2003 album For JG to the jazz greats ( Jazz Giants ) Duke Ellington , Count Basie , Charlie Parker , Dizzy Gillespie , John Coltrane and the Japanese musician Toru Takemitsu . Musically, Tsunoda is based on the classic big band style of the large swing orchestras such as the Duke Ellington Orchestra and Count Basie Orchestra . The soloists of the Tsunoda Big Band include Yūji Kawamura , Tatsuya Satō and Hideo Oyama . Tsunoda was active with his big band until the 2010s.
Discographic notes
- Savanna (Sea Breeze, 2000)
- Big Swing (Sea Breeze, 2002)
- For JG (Sea Breeze, 2003)
Web links
- Ken'ichi Tsunoda at Discogs (English)
- Kenichi Tsunoda on Allmusic (English)
- Review of Scott Yanow's For JG album at Allmusic . Retrieved October 21, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 6, 2017)
- ↑ JazzTimes , Volume 36, Issues 1–5, Jazztimes, 2006
- ↑ Besprachung Album For JG at All About Jazz
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Tsunoda, Ken'ichi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tsunoda, Kenichi; 角 田健 一 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese jazz musician and big band leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |