Kengo Nakamura (musician)

Kengo Nakamura ( Japanese 中村堅碁 , Nakamura Kengo ; * 1965 in Osaka ) is a Japanese jazz musician ( double bass , composition ).

Live and act

Nakamura first learned to play classical guitar at the age of twelve before switching to the electric bass at the age of 17 . From 1988 he studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he had lessons with Whit Browne . After graduating, he worked with musicians such as Roy Hargrove , Antonio Hart and Anthony Wonsey . With a scholarship from the John Neves Memorial Scholarship, he continued his studies at Berklee College of Music. In 1991 he moved to New York City and began working as a professional musician with, among others, Wynton Marsalis ( Live at the House of Tribes , 2002), Benny Golson , Mal Waldron , Cyrus Chestnut , Marcus Printup , Sadao Watanabe , Makoto Ozone , Antonio Ciacca , Shinnosuke Takahashi , Ritsuko Iwayama and Wess "Warmdaddy" Anderson and Nicola Angelucci . In 2001 he released his debut album Divine on Verve Records . The readers of the Japanese Swing Journal have since voted him three times as the best Japanese jazz bassist and among the top ten best composers / arrangers. In the field of jazz he is listed by Tom Lord between 2000 and 2016 with 24 recording sessions, most recently with Michael Dease .

Divine (Universal / Verve, 2001), with Atsushi Ikeda , Cyrus Chestnut, Makoto Ozone, Neal Smith , Rodney Green
Re: Standards (2005), with Marcus Printup, Ted Nash , Makoto Ozone
Generations (55 Records, 2008), with Danny Grissett , Clarence Penn
Songs in My Life Time (55 Records, 2012), with Marcus Printup, Mark Gross , Stacy Dillard , Richard Johnson , Willie Jones III