Takashi Mizuhashi

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Takashi "Gon" Mizuhashi ( Japanese 水 橋 孝 , Mizuhashi Takashi ; born March 2, 1943 ) is a Japanese jazz musician ( double bass ).

Takashi Mizuhashi played in the Japanese jazz scene from the late 1960s; The first recordings were made with Chris Connor ( Softly and Swingin ' ), which he accompanied with Hideo Ichikawa , Shungo Sawada and George Otsuka at a studio session in Tokyo. In the following years he worked a. a. with Kimiko Kasai , Yuji Ohno , Masaru Imada , Kohsuke Mine , Isao Suzuki , George Otsuka, George Kawaguchi , Hideo Ichikawa, Shigeko Toya , Emiko Kai , Dave Burrell ( Lush Life , 1978), Shingo Okudaira , Yoshiaki Miyanoue , Hidehiko Matsumoto , Archie Shepp ( Tray of Silver , 1979) and Marion Brown .

Mizuhashi also worked with his own formations from the early 1970s. With his quartet (with Yoshio Otomo , Fumio Karashima , Hideo Sekine ) he recorded two LPs for Three Blind Mice and accompanied the singer Yoshiko Goto . 1977 Mizuhashi played with Herbie Hancock the album One Tuesday in New York ( Denon ), on which Teruo Nakamura and Bruno Carr also participated; it was the first production of the new Denon Jazz label. On his albums Early Summer in Tokyo and Gon's Delight (Denon / Nippon Columbia), Horacee Arnold , Cecil Bridgewater , Archie Shepp and Mickey Tucker were involved in a session in Tokyo in 1978 . In 1989 he played again with Dave Burrell, with whom he recorded the duo album Plays Ellington & Monk (Denon). In the 90s he was still involved in the recordings of Takashi Miyazawa , Eri Kayama and Hioaki Panryu . In the field of jazz, the discographer Tom Lord lists his participation in 51 recording sessions between 1969 and 2012.

Discographic notes

  • Takashi Mizuhashi Quartet Plus Two: When a Man Loves a Woman (TBM, 1974), with Shigeharu Mukai , Yoshio Otomo, Seiichi Nakamura , Fumio Karashima, Hideo Sekine
  • Takashi Mizuhashi Quartet: Who Cares (TBM, 1974), with Yoshio Otomo, Fumio Karashima, Hideo Sekine
  • Only Trust Your Heart (RCA, 1976), with Hideo Ichikawa , George Otsuka
  • Interplay Now (Carnival, 1980), with Masaru, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto , Hideo Sekine
  • Waltz for Debby (Cab, 1994), with Toshiyuki Daitoku , Hideo Sekine

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing, Paul Oliver, Peter Wicke (Eds.) Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 1 Media, Industry, Society, Volume 1 . London 2003.
  2. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 17, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Mizuhashi, Takashi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mizuhashi, Gon (stage name); 水 橋 孝 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1943