Kiyoshi Sugimoto

Kiyoshi Sugimoto ( Japanese 杉本保清 , Sugimoto Kiyoshi ; * around 1940) is a Japanese fusion and jazz guitarist .

Kiyoshi Sugimoto played in the Tokyo jazz scene from the early 1960s a. a. with Martha Miyake , with whom the first recordings were made in 1960 ( My Favorite Songs ), also with Hideo Shiraki , Yuzuru Sera , Akira Ishikawa , Yoshiaki Masuo , George Otsuka and Terumasa Hino . In 1970 he recorded his debut album Country Dream (Nippon Columbia) with Masahiro Suzuki (piano), Yoshio Ikeda (bass) and Motohiko Hino , followed by Babylonia Wind (Columbia 1971, with Takao Uematsu , Hideo Ichikawa , Yoshio Ikeda and Motohiko Hino) and a pop album ( My Sweet Lord ) with hits by the Beatles and Santana .

From the 1970s he took a number of z. T. Fusion-oriented albums on. In 1971 he made a guest appearance with Terumasa Hino at the Berlin Jazz Days ; he also worked in the 1970s with Seiichi Nakamura , Maki Asakawa , Yosuke Yamashita , Yasuko Agawa , Tatsuya Takahashi , Sonny Stitt ( The Shadow of Your Smile , 1978), Madao Yagi , Eri Ohno , Katsuo Kuninaka , and in the 1980s as well with George Kawaguchi , Tomoki Takahashi / Elvin Jones , Masaru Imada , Harumi Kaneko , Joe Henderson ( Jazz Time II: Blue Bossa Live 1987 , with Toshihiko Kankawa ). In the field of jazz, he was involved in 69 recording sessions between 1960 and 2001.

Discographic notes

Our Time (Columbia, 1975), with Takao Uematsu, Hideo Ichikawa, Hiromasa Suzuki, Masaoki Terakawa , Motohiko Hino, Akira Ishikawa
LA Master (Express, 1977), with Jake Conception, Yasuaki Shimizu , Haruo Togashi , Toshiyuki Daitoku , Tsunehide Matsuki , Akira Okazawa , Yuichi Togashiki , Tatsuya Nakamura , Nobu Saito , Motoya Hamaguchi
Get you! (Yupiteru, 1978), with Yasuaki Shimizu, Ryuichi Sakamoto , Masanori Sasaji , Takayuki Hijikata , Akira Okazawa , Shuichi Murakami , Yuichi Togashiki, Larry Sunaga
One More (Better Days, 1980), with Shunzo Ono , Warren Bernhardt , Marcus Miller , Omar Hakim
Circulation (Tukuma, 2001), with Kankawa, Greg Bandy, Cynthia Marie

personal data
SURNAME	Sugimoto, Kiyoshi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	杉本保清 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese fusion and jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1940