Ushio Sakai

Ushio Sakai ( Japanese 酒井潮 , Sakai Ushio ; born December 5, 1934 in Aoyama , Tokyo Prefecture ; † 2012 ) is a Japanese jazz musician ( organ , keyboards ).

Ushio Sakai was active as a jazz composer in the 1960s and played in the quintet of the guitarist Sunao Wada in the 1970s , to be heard on his LPs Blues World or Blues for Bird . With Wada he also played the album Blues Meeting ( Three Blind Mice ). Under his own name he made the album Guitar Meets Organ at Quiet House (Elec) in 1972 , which he had recorded live with Teruyuki Fukushima , Hideyuki Kikuchi , Shungo Sawada and Yoichi Shiratori ; 1973 followed the recording of Jam in Yokota (Crown). In the late 70s, the albums Rushing Stream (Seven Seas, 1978, with Hideyuki Kikuchi, Shungo Sawada, Donald Bailey ) and Blues in My Soul (Yupiteru, with Bailey and Eric Gale ) were created, most of which contained their own compositions. In the field of jazz he was involved in 10 recording sessions between 1967 and 2011.

Discography

Feelin 'Blue (1971)
Blues for Bird (1975)
Blues in my Soul (1978)
Rushing Stream (1978)
Round About Midnight (1996)
Conversation II , with Tagayuki Yaga (piano)
The Ushio Sakai Trio at the Someday: Plays Horace Silver (with Masasuke Watanabe and Kagehiro Ouba)
On the Piano (2005), with Masatoshi Shoji (bass), Izumi Masakiyo (drums)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ He wrote the title If with Stasia A. Grayce . See Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical composition - US Government Printing Office, 1965, p. 1693
↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 31, 2017)

personal data
SURNAME	Sakai, Ushio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	酒井潮 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 5, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aoyama (Tokyo)
DATE OF DEATH	2012

[1] He wrote the title If with Stasia A. Grayce . See Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical composition - US Government Printing Office, 1965, p. 1693

[lord-2] Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 31, 2017)