Yoshio Ikeda
Yoshio Ikeda ( Japanese 池田 芳 夫 Ikeda Yoshio ; born January 1, 1942 in Kumano-Tamura (today: Toyonaka ), Osaka Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz musician ( double bass ).
As a teenager he became interested in rockabilly and Mickey Curtis, who popularized it in Japan, and in particular for Charlie Parker . After leaving middle school and working briefly for Matsushita , he played with a few colleagues in a "Hawaiian band". When he turned 17, he took classical lessons with Shigeo Maeno of the NHK Symphony Orchestra for five years . When he was fired after two years with Matsushita, he played professionally in a tango band. At 21 Jun'ichirō Ōta (1933-2017) became aware of him and took him on in his jazz band. At 23 he played in the Yasuo Ōsawa Trio, for which he moved to Tokyo.
In the 1960s he studied jazz double bass with Gary Peacock . In 1968 he was one of the Modern Jazz All Stars of Shungo Sawada , then he recorded with Hozan Yamamoto , Sadao Watanabe , Masabumi Kikuchi and Masahiko Togashi . He led his own combos in the 1970s, with which he released albums with his own compositions. In 1982 he played the album Esprit in a duo with Aki Takase . He also worked with Johnny Hartman , Terumasa Hino , Steve Lacy , Akira Miyazawa , Yuji Ohno , Allan Praskin , Masahiko Sato and Kiyoshi Sugimoto .
Discographic notes
- Yoshio Ikeda Quintet Sketch of My Life (Seven Seas 1978, with Suetoshi Shimizu , Ichiko Hashimoto , Aki Takase, Motohiko Hino )
- Anemophilous Flower (Seven Seas 1979 / King Records 2012, with Hitoshi Okano , Shigeharu Mukai , Tadanori Konakawa , Masami Nakagawa , Tamami Koyake , Aki Takase, Takeshi Watanabe )
Web links
- Yoshio Ikeda at Allmusic (English)
- Yoshio Ikeda at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 小 川隆夫 : 証言 で 綴 る 日本 の ジ ャ ズ】 池 田芳夫 ／ 第 １ 話 「“ ア ル バ イ ト 禁止 ”の 就職 先 で…」 . In: Arban. February 14, 2019, accessed September 8, 2019 (Japanese).
- ↑ 小 川隆夫 : 【証言 で 綴 る 日本 の ジ ャ ズ】 池 田芳夫 ／ 第 ２ 話 「あ ら た め て“ ベ ー ス の 基礎 ”を 習得」 . In: Arban. February 21, 2019, Retrieved September 8, 2019 (Japanese).
- ↑ 小 川隆夫 : 【証言 で 綴 る 日本 の ジ ャ ズ】 池 田芳夫 ／ 第 ３ 話 「“ 彗星 の ご と く 現 れ た ”驚異 の 新人」 . In: Arban. February 28, 2019, Retrieved September 8, 2019 (Japanese).
- ↑ Kazunori Sugiyama, Yoshio Ikeda . In: Barry Kernfeld (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz . 2nd Edition.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ikeda, Yoshio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 池 田芳夫 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese jazz musician (double bass) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kumano-Tamura (today: Toyonaka ), Osaka Prefecture |