Toshi Makihara

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Toshi Makihara ( Japanese 牧 原 ト シ , Makihara Toshi ; born March 31, 1960 in Chiba Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz and improvisation musician ( drums , percussion ) living in the USA .

Live and act

Makihara learned jazz and improvisation music during his high school days with Sabu Toyozumi, who shaped him, and later studied the Japanese butoh dance form, a. a. at Ōno Kazuo . He then performed with dance and music ensembles for several years, including a. with various choreographers in the Philadelphia area . He has been working in the American improvisation scene since the 1990s. a. with Marshall Allen , Jim Meneses , Thurston Moore , William Parker , Eric Ross , Wally Shoup and Blaise Siwula ., as well as with Eugene Chadbourne . In the field of jazz he was involved in twelve recording sessions between 1998 and 2008. He has since appeared in solo programs (mostly with a single drum), as well as with John Butcher .

Discography

  • Thurston Moore / Wally Shoup / Toshi Makihara: Hurricane Floyd (Sublingual Records, 1999)
  • Toshi Makihara & Jim Meneses: Next Bug (Sonore, 2001)
  • Marshall Allen, Jeffrey Shurdut, Michael Ray , Toshi Makihara: Cosmic Tsunami (2004)
  • Wally Shoup / Toshi Makihara / Brent Arnold : Confluxus ( Leo Records , 2004)
  • Gary Joseph Hassay / Blaise Siwula / Toshi Makihara: Live at the Connexions Gallery Vol. 1 ( Re: KonstruKt , rec. 2007)
  • John Dikeman / Jon Barrios / Toshi Makihara: We Need You (Eh ?, 2008)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Toshi Makihara: バ イ オ グ ラ フ ィ ー . Archived from the original on July 24, 2008 ; Retrieved May 1, 2015 (Japanese).
  2. ^ Entry at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
  3. ↑ Toshi Makihara at Discogs (English)
  4. ↑ Philadelphia Citypaper, March 8, 2001 ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / citypaper.net
  5. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 28, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Makihara, Toshi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 牧 原 ト シ (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz and improvisation musician (drums, percussion)
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Chiba prefecture