Mitsuru Ono

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Mitsuru Ono ( Japanese 小野 満 , Ono Mitsuru ; born January 3, 1929 , † January 2, 2008 ) was a Japanese jazz musician ( double bass ).

Ono, who was active in the Japanese jazz scene from the 1950s, played a. a. 1953 in George Kawaguchi's band Big Four (with Hidehiko Matsumoto (tenor saxophone) and Hachidai Nakamura on piano), which were successfully based on Charlie Ventura's Big Four . In 1959 the Big Four recorded an album for King Records. In the late 1950s, Ono also directed his own ensemble; with Mitsuru Ono & his Six Bros , the u. a. and Eiji Kitamura belonged, he entered Tokyo jazz clubs like Ginbasha or Benibasha on. During this time he also played with the saxophonist Jimmy Araki ( Midnight Jazz Session , Victor 1959) and around 1960 was a member of the Swing Journal All Stars , which emerged from the readership of the jazz magazine of the same name.

In the following decade Ono led the band Swing Beavers , with whom he also recorded several tracks such as "Cute" under his own name. With his groups he also appeared in the films Kibô no otome (1958, directed by Yasushi Sasaki ) and Sasurai no trumpet (1963, directed by Hiroshi Noguchi ). After a Christmas album ( Christmas Dance Music , 1968) in the easy listening style, he took up the fusion-oriented production Discotheque Hit (JVC, 1976) in the mid-1970s , with instrumental versions of current pop hits such as "Get Ready" or "You Haven't Done Nothin '". On the following album When You Are Smiling (Victor), which was created in 1978, he played well-known standards such as " How High the Moon ", " Perdido " or " These Foolish Things " with his Swing Beavers (with Hidehiko Matsumoto and Masaaki Fujita, among others ) . In 1981 he recorded the album Encyclopedia of Standard (Carnival) with a big band line-up , with popular jazz numbers such as " Lover, Come Back to Me ", " Moonlight Serenade " and " Take the" A "Train ". In the field of jazz, Tom Lord lists him in nine recording sessions between 1954 and 1981.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Oxford Companion to Jazz , edited by Bill Kirchner . Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 569
  2. ^ Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-532000-8 , p. 388.
  3. ^ Metronome, Volume 75, Metronome Corporation, 1958
  4. ↑ Mitsuru Ono in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  5. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 16, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Ono, Mitsuru
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 小野 満 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1929
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 2008