Yoshiko Gotō

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Yoshiko Gotō , also Yoshiko Gotoh ( Japanese 後 藤 芳子 , Gotō Yoshiko ; * 1933 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz singer .

Yoshiko Gotō began her career in the 1950s; In 1952 she worked with Eiji Kitamura and Kiyoshi Yamaya . In 1964 she appeared in Japan with American Dixieland musicians; In 1965 she was mentioned in the Down Beat . In 1967 she toured the United States for the first time. Around 1970 Denon recorded her debut album This Girl's (in Love with You) , on which she was accompanied by Masahiko Satoh (piano, arrangement), Kiyoshi Sugimoto (guitar), Yasuo Arakawa (bass) and Akira Ishikawa (drums). From 1970 to 1972 the singer lived in the USA; During this time the album Yoshiko Meets Ray Brown - I'm Glad There Is You was created .

From the mid-1970s she released a number of solo albums such as Gentle Rain (Columbia, 1975), A Touch Of Love ( Three Blind Mice , 1975, with Kunimitsu Inaba and Sadanori Nakamure ), Day Dream (TBM, 1975, with Yoshio Otomo , Junichiro Ohkuchi , Takashi Mizuhashi , Hideo Sekine ) and Because (Trio, 1981, with Masahiko Satoh, Nobuyoshi Ino , Masahiko Togashi ). In 1975 she performed in a duet with Martha Miyake , accompanied by Shigeo Suzuki , Toshihiko Ogawa , Masanaga Harada and Donald Bailey . Her repertoire consisted of pop hits of the time like “ Bridge over Troubled Water ”, “ You've Made Me So Very Happy ” or “ Raindrops Keep Fallin 'on My Head ” and jazz standards like “ Almost Like Being in Love ” “ When Your Lover Has” Gone ”or“ What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? ". In 2000 she presented the album A Beautiful Friendship with the pianist George Gaffney . The discographer Tom Lord lists them in the field of jazz between 1970 and 2000 with six recording sessions.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d William Minor: Jazz Journeys to Japan: The Heart Within . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2004, p. 73
  2. ^ Ebony, October 1964, p. 130
  3. ^ Down Beat, Volume 32, Maher Publications, 1965
  4. ↑ In his book Jazz Journeys to Japan: The Heart Within , William Minor sat on pp. 73f. critically examines Goto's jazz phrasing skills on the Day Dream album .
  5. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 19, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Goto, Yoshiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gotoh, Yoshiko; 後 藤 芳子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo prefecture