Kunimitsu Inaba

Kunimitsu Inaba ( Japanese 稲葉國光 , Inaba Kunimitsu ; born April 29, 1934 in Shimoda , Shizuoka Prefecture ) is a Japanese musician ( double bass ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Kunimitsu Inaba worked with Terumasa Hino and Hideo Shiraki from the mid- 1956s ; In 1968 he was a member of the All-Stars-Band of the Japanese Swing Journal with Hino, Hiroshi Suzuki , Sadao Watanabe , Masabumi Kikuchi and Masahiko Togashi . In the following years he was a member of the Kikuchi-Hino Quintet; In the 1970s he worked with guest jazz greats in Japan such as Joe Henderson , Abbey Lincoln , Helen Merrill , Irene Kral and Ann Burton , as well as with the formation The Freedom Unity (with Hiromisa and Hiroshi Suzuki), Mari Nakamoto , Akira Ishikawa , Shungo Sawada / Sadanori Nakamure , Keiko Nemoto , Eiichi Fujii , Yasuko Agawa and Masuro Imada . In 1975 he recorded the duo album Conversation with the guitarist Sadanori Nakamure ; followed by the album Bassin ' , which Inaba recorded with Kosuke Mine (ts), Nakamure Sadanori (git), Keiko Iwasaki (p) and Hideo Sekine (dr).

He performed with Tsuyoshi Yamamoto at the 1979 Montreux Jazz Festival . In the 1980s and 90s, he played with Shōji Yokouchi , Kōnosuke Saijō , Harumi Kaneko , Jiro Inagaki , Akira Miyazawa , Kunihiko Sugano , Sumiko Yoseyama / Mal Waldron , Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Nakamure Sadanori , Barry Harris and Martha Miyake . In the field of jazz he was involved in ninety recording sessions between 1964 and 2006, most recently with Q Ishikawa .

personal data
SURNAME	Inaba, Kunimitsu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	稲葉國光 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 29, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Shimoda , Shizuoka Prefecture