Terumasa Hino

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Terumasa Hino ( Japanese 日 野 皓 正 , Hino Terumasa ; born October 25, 1942 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz trumpeter . He also plays the flugelhorn .

Life

Hino's father, a tap dancer and trumpeter, taught his son tapping when he was four years old. At the age of nine he started playing the trumpet. Hino began his career as a professional jazz musician in 1955. The trumpeter was influenced by Miles Davis (1960s), Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard . He joined the band of Hideo Shiraki , with whom he performed together with Yuzuru Sera in 1965 at the Berlin Jazz Days . He had with his album the first success Hi-nology in 1969, the goldhas been. With his own band he was invited to the Berlin Jazz Days and other festivals in 1971 and recorded live at the Munich jazz club domicile in 1973 . The Taro's Mood he created there is an example of his own free conception of hard bop with lyrical elements. It plays powerfully and has a "big shiny" tone.

In America he only became known because of these European recordings on the Enja label , although his music was already available there on the Catalyst, Inner City, and Blue Note labels. In 1975 he moved to New York City . There he worked with Gil Evans , Jackie McLean , Dave Liebman and Elvin Jones . From the early 1980s onwards, Hino began spending more time in Japan, making records in many different styles, such as: B. straight forward avant-garde or in fusion style. He recorded compositions as diverse as those by Harold Arlen, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk and Masahiko Togashi. Two of his bands are the Terumasa Hino Quintet and the Terumasa Hino and Masabumi Kikuchi Quintet . He also worked with his brother, the drummer Motohiko Hino .

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Individual evidence

  1. 世 良 譲 . In: 20 世紀 日本人 名 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved September 14, 2017 (Japanese).
  2. ^ Groove Dictionary
  3. Information on the biography from the enja website and the All Music Guide

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