Tomoki Takahashi

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Tomoki Takahashi ( Japanese 高橋 知己 , Takahashi Tomoki ; * around 1950) is a Japanese jazz musician ( soprano and tenor saxophone ).

Tomoki Takahashi played in the Japanese jazz scene from the early 1970s a. a. with Shigeharu Mukai , with whom the first recordings were made in 1974 ( For My Little Bird ), also with Yosuke Yamashita , Takeo Moriyama , Ryōjirō Furusawa , Kazuhiko Tsumura and in 1982 with Akira Sakata . His debut album Tomoki (Better Days) he recorded in early 1979 with Shigeharu Mukai, Kazuhide Motooka , Kazumi Watanabe , Kawabata Tamio and Ryojiro Furusawa; In June 1980 there was an encounter with Elvin Jones , from which the joint album Another Soil for Denon (with Shigeharu Mukai, Kiyoshi Sugimoto , Junichiro Ohkuchi and the bassists Hideaki Mochizuki and Tamio Kawabata ) resulted. In the field of jazz he was involved in twelve recording sessions between 1974 and 1997, most recently with his live album Make Someone Happy , on which Takahashi played with Kazuhide Motooka (piano), Satoshi Kosugi (bass) and Fumio Watanabe (drums). In later years he continued to work with his own bands, in the 2000s with Kazuhiko Tsumura, Nobuyuki Komatsu and Tomoyuki Shima , and in 2016 with Sachiko Ikuta, Sho Kudo and Ryo Saito.

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  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 10, 2017)
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Portrait at jazz in Japan @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzinjapan.com
personal data
SURNAME Takahashi, Tomoki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 高橋 知己 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1950