Toshiyuki Honda

Toshiyuki Honda ( Japanese 本多俊之 , Honda Toshiyuki ; born April 9, 1957 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz and fusion musician (alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, also flute).

Toshiyuki Honda worked in the Japanese jazz and fusion scene from the late 1970s a. a. with Ryōjirō Furusawa , with whom the first recordings were made in 1978 ( Spicy Island ). In the same year he presented his debut album Burnin 'Waves (Electric Bird), which he had recorded with his band of the same name and musicians such as Eiji Arai , Jerry Hey , Gary Herbig , Larry Williams , Ken Wild and Bob Wilson . In the following years he also played with Red Mitchell ( Scairport Blues ), Shingo Okudaira , Kazumi Watanabe , Masao Nakajima , Kyoko Shishido , Atsumasa Nakabayashi , Ryuichi Sakamoto , Isao Suzuki , George Kawagushi , Fumio Itabashi , Tatsuya Takahashi and Maki Asakawa . From 1979 he also presented several albums with the fusion band Native Son , of which he was a member.

1983 Honda recorded the album Dream in Tokyo with Chick Corea , Miroslav Vitouš and Roy Haynes . In 1986 his album Super Quartet followed with Takehiro Honda , Mitsuaki Furuno and Motohiko Hino . He also directed the band Toshiyuki Honda Radio Club , with which he released two albums. From the late 1980s onwards, he increasingly turned to film music ; so he produced the soundtrack for Die Steuerfahnderin (1987, directed by Jūzō Itami ), Robotic Angel ( Metoroporisu , 2001, directed by Rintaro ), Gunhed and the television series Kaze no Haruka (2005-2007). In the field of jazz, Tom Lord lists him in 79 recording sessions between 1978 and 2002.

Discographic notes

Grandpa com deus (Electric Bird, 1979)
Easy Breathing (Electric Bird, 1980), et al. a. with Jerry Hey, Bill Reichenbach junior
Boomerang (King, 1981), with Soichi Noriki , Takumi Yamamoto , Tetsuya Inove , Shigeo Hirayama , Tesuaki "Whacho" Hoashi
Toshiyuki Honda Radio Club: Gads - Marusa No Onna 2 (Who Ring, 1987)
Toshiyuki Honda Radio Club: Something Coming On (Who Ring, 1988)
Maki Asakawa & Toshiyuki Honda: Duo (Ⅱ) - 幻の女たち (Eastworld, 1988)
Gunhed - Original Soundtrack Recording (1989), with Takayuki Hijikata , Kenji Shiraishi , Tatsuji Yokoyama , Keiji Toriyama , Hideo Iguchi , Kazuto Kitahara , Len'ichi Tsunoda , Futoshi Kobayashi , Kouichi Suzuki , Shuichiro Ise , Shuhei Kubo
Metropolis (Original Soundtrack) (Milan, 2001)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Toshiyuki Honda. In: Barry Kernfeld (Ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz . 2002
↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 18, 2017)

personal data
SURNAME	Honda, Toshiyuki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	本多俊之 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 9, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tokyo prefecture

[1] Toshiyuki Honda. In: Barry Kernfeld (Ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz . 2002

[lord-2] Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 18, 2017)