Yūji Ōno

Yūji Ōno , also Yuji Ohno ( Japanese 大野雄二 , Ōno Yūji ; born May 30, 1941 in Atamai , Shizuoka Prefecture ) is a Japanese funk , pop and jazz musician (piano, arrangement, composition, bandleader) 1970s worked primarily as a film composer .

Life

From the 1960s on, Yūji Ōno played in the Japanese jazz scene with Martha Miyake (who made the first recordings in 1960), Hiroshi Suzuki , Masahiko Togashi , Terumasa Hino and with Hideo Shiraki / Yuzo Kayama, among others . Around 1970 he began to work with his own trio (with Takashi Mizuhashi , double bass and Kazuyoshi Okayama , drums); At a concert in the Ginza Yamaha Hall, a live recording was made with singer Kimiko Kasai ( Just Friends ).

With his numerous band projects influenced by American role models such as Marvin Gaye , such as The Explosion Band, Galaxy, Yuji Ohno & His Project and King Kong Hunters , he was mainly active in pop music in the following years , with a number of studio albums and as a film composer and orchestra conductor and musicians for anime films and series such as Lupine III (1978, directed by Sōji Yoshikawa , Yasuo Ōtsuka ), The Castle of Cagliostro (1979, directed by Hayao Miyazaki ), Captain Future and Lupine III (2015) . In 1978 Ōno recorded the fusion album Space Kid (CBS / SONY) with Jake Conception , Tsunehide Matsuki , Akira Okazawa , Yasushi Ichihara, among others . In 2007 the album Lupine the Third Jazz - What's Going On was created , in which Yuji Ohno & Lupinti Five (with Keiji Matsushima , Hisatsugu Suzuki , Satoshi Izumi , Masayuki Tawarayama , Yoshihito Eto ) played jazz arrangements of his film music for the Lupine II series. In the field of jazz he was involved in 22 recording sessions between 1960 and 2007.

personal data
SURNAME	Ōno, Yūji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ohno, Yuji; 大野雄二 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese jazz musician and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 30, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Atamai , Shizuoka Prefecture