Kosuke Mine

Kōsuke Mine ( Japanese 峰厚介 , Mine Kōsuke , actually Kenji Wakabayashi , born February 6, 1944 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz and fusion musician ( tenor, alto and soprano saxophone , also bass clarinet ).

Livers and work

Kōsuke Mine first learned the clarinet as a child before switching to the saxophone as a teenager. In 1970 he recorded his debut album First / Morning Tide ( Philips ) in the postbop idiom . Now he has worked on the Japanese jazz scene with Masabumi Kikuchi , Hideto Kanai ( Q , 1971) and the guest musicians Gil Evans , Joe Henderson and Mal Waldron . From 1973 to 1975 he lived in New York City to study; after his return to Japan he was a member of the fusion band Native Son (with Takehiro Honda (keyboards), Motonobu Ohde (electric guitar), Tamio Kawabata (electric bass) and Hiroshi Murakami (drums)), with whom he recorded several albums and 1983 performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival ( Carnival , Polydor ). He also played with Nobuyoshi Ino , Sadao Watanabe , Terumasa Hino , Masahiko Togashi , Hiroshi Murakami, Sumiko Yoseyama , Masahiko Satō , Shun Sakai , Takeshi Shibuya , and also with Nancy Wilson and George Russell . In the field of jazz he was involved in 76 recording sessions between 1970 and 2011.

Morning Tide (Philips, 1970), with Masabumi Kikuchi, Larry Ridley , Lenny McBrowne
Mine ( Three Blind Mice , 1970), with Takashi Mizuhashi , Hiroshi Murakami , Hideo Ichikawa , Takashi Imai
Kimiko Kasai & Kosuke Mine Quartet: Yellow Carcass in the Blue (Three Blind Mice, 1971), with Yoshio Suzuki , Hiroshi Murakami, Masahiro Kikuchi
Daguri (JVC Victor, 1973), with Hideaki Mochizuki , Hiroshi Murakami, Humio Itabashi , Hideo Miyata
Out of Chaos (East Wind Records, 1974), with Tsutomu Okada , Motohiko Hino , Masabumi Kikuchi
Sunshower (East Wind, 1976), with Mikio Masuda
Solid (East Wind, 1976)
2nd album (Three Blind Mice, 1970. ed. 1977), with Yoshio Suzuki, Hiroshi Murakami, Yoshiaki Masuo ,
Major to Minor ( Verve Records , 1993), with Tsutomu Okada , Ryōjirō Furusawa , Kazumasa Akiyama , Junichiro Ohkuchi
With Your Soul (Mineg, 2011), with Eriko Shimuzu, Tomokazu Sugimoto , Hiroshi Murakami

Kazunori Sugiyama, Kosuke Mine . The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.

personal data
SURNAME	Mine, Kosuke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mine, Kohsuke; Wakabayashi, Kenji (real name); 峰厚介 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese jazz and fusion musician (saxophone)
DATE OF BIRTH	February 6, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tokyo prefecture