is a
Japanis an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese
jazzJazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
trumpeter. Currently based in
New YorkNew York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, Hino is widely acknowledged as one of
Japanis an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
's finest jazz musicians. His instruments include the trumpet, cornet and
flügelhornThe flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore...
.
Hino's exposure to music began at a young age, with his father, a step dancer and trumpeter, teaching him tap dancing when he was 4 years old. He soon began performing with the
trumpetThe trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC...
when he was 9 years old. In the 1950s, Hino began his career as a professional jazz musician; his music being inspired by trumpeter Sakagami Hiroshi, who taught him.
is a
Japanis an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese
jazzJazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
trumpeter. Currently based in
New YorkNew York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, Hino is widely acknowledged as one of
Japanis an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
's finest jazz musicians. His instruments include the trumpet, cornet and
flügelhornThe flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore...
.
Biography
Hino's exposure to music began at a young age, with his father, a step dancer and trumpeter, teaching him tap dancing when he was 4 years old. He soon began performing with the
trumpetThe trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC...
when he was 9 years old. In the 1950s, Hino began his career as a professional jazz musician; his music being inspired by trumpeter Sakagami Hiroshi, who taught him. In 1965, after working with several noted jazz artists, he joined Hideo Shiraki's Quintent, with whom he stayed till 1969, leaving to lead his own band full-time, which he had started in 1964. In 1969, Hino released the album
Hi-nology, released to critical acclaim and success, and soon after performed in several jazz festivals and clubs worldwide, such as the Berliner Jazztage in 1971 and Munich Jazzclub in 1973, and working with
Masabumi Kikuchiis a Japanese jazz pianist and composer born in Tokyo, Japan, notable for working with a variety of well known jazz musicians such as Lionel Hampton, Sonny Rollins, Woody Herman, Mal Waldron, Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones,Miles Davis, Billy Harper and Hannibal Peterson.-Select...
in 1974, before settling in New York in 1975.
Upon settling in New York, Hino worked with numerous artists in the following years, including
Joachim KuhnJoachim Kühn is a German jazz pianist.-Biography:Kühn was a musical prodigy and gave his debut as a concert pianist and studied classical piano and composition with Arthur Schmidt-Elsey. Influenced by his elder brother, clarinet-player Rolf Kühn, he simultaneously got interested in jazz. In 1961...
,
Gil EvansGil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States...
,
Jackie McLeanJohn Lenwood McLean was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, born in New York City. -Biography:McLean's father, John Sr., played guitar in Tiny Bradshaw's orchestra...
,
Ken McIntyreMakanda Ken McIntyre was an American jazz musician and composer.-Biography:McIntyre was born in Boston, Massachusetts...
,
Dave LiebmanDave Liebman is an American saxophonist and flautist.David Liebman was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 4, 1946. He began classical piano lessons at the age of nine and saxophone by twelve...
,
Hal GalperHarold "Hal" Galper is a jazz pianist born in Salem, Massachusetts on April 18, 1938.He studied classical piano as a boy, but switched to jazz which he studied at the Berklee College of Music from 1955 to 1958. Around this time Jaki Byard and Herb Pomeroy taught him privately. He went on to work in...
,
Carlos GarnettCarlos Garnett is a Panamanian-American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and jazz group leader. Mr. Garnett was born in Red Tank Canal Zone in 1938, and at the age of 7, his parents moved to community of Paraiso where he grew into manhood...
,
Sam JonesSamuel Jones was a jazz bassist, cellist, and composer.Jones played with Bobby Timmons, Tiny Bradshaw, Les Jazz Modes, Kenny Dorham, Illinois Jacquet, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk...
and
Elvin JonesElvin Ray Jones was one of the great jazz drummers of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan. He served in the United States Army from 1946 to 1949 and subsequently played in a Detroit houseband led by...
, as well as leading his own group, which is credited by the jazz guitarist
John ScofieldJohn Scofield , often referred to as "Sco," is an American jazz guitarist and composer, who has played and collaborated with Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Charles Mingus, Joey Defrancesco, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Pat Martino, Mavis Staples, Phil Lesh, Billy Cobham, Medeski Martin...
for him turning from
fusionA fusion genre is a music genre which combines two or more genres. For example, rock and roll originally developed as a fusion of blues, gospel and country music. The main characteristics of fusion genres are variations in tempo, rhythm and sometimes the use of long musical "journeys" that can be...
to jazz. Beginning from the 1980s, Hino spent more time in Japan and helped incorporate several elements such as avant garde and fusion into his music. Since then, he has toured several countries and regions, including
EuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains , and the Black Sea to the southeast...
in the 1990s. In 1996, he performed again with
Masabumi Kikuchiis a Japanese jazz pianist and composer born in Tokyo, Japan, notable for working with a variety of well known jazz musicians such as Lionel Hampton, Sonny Rollins, Woody Herman, Mal Waldron, Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones,Miles Davis, Billy Harper and Hannibal Peterson.-Select...
, also performing the session with noted saxophonist
Greg OsbyGreg Osby is an American jazz saxophonist who plays mainly in the free jazz, free funk and M-Base idioms.-Biography:Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Osby studied at Howard University, where he majored in Jazz Studies, and then at the Berklee College of Music, with Andy McGhee...
.
Discography
- Hi-Nology (1969, Takt)
- Journey To Air (1970, Canyon
is a Japanese company, established on October 1, 1966, which publishes music, DVD and VHS videos, movies and video games. It is a subsidiary of Japanese Media Group, Fujisankei Communications Group.-History:...
)
- Alone Again (1970, Takt)
- Vibrations (1971, Enja
Enja Records is a German jazz record label based in Munich, Germany. It was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971, initially devoted to the Jazz avant-garde....
)
- Fuji (1972, Enja)
- Taro's Mood (1973, Enja)
- Live (1973, Three Blind Mice
Three Blind Mice is an English nursery rhyme and musical round, perhaps the best known round in the world. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3753.-Lyrics:The modern words are:
-Variations and uses:...
)
- Into Eternity (1974, Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. Columbia Records went on to release records by an array of notable singers,...
)
- Speak To Loneliness (1975, East Wind)
- Live In Concert (1975, EastWind)
- Wheat Stone (1975, EastWind)
- May Dance (1977, Flying Disk)
- Live Under The Sky (1977, Flying Disk)
- Hip Seagull (1977, Flying Disk)
- Le Chanson D'Orphee (1978, RCA Records
RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1983 and a partner from 1983 to 1986.-The RCA family of labels:RCA is the name of three different co-owned record...
)
- Terumasa Hino (1986, Denon
is a Japanese electronics company that originated digital audio technology, while specializing in manufacturing of high-fidelity professional and consumer audio equipment. For many decades, Denon was a brand name of Nippon-Columbia, including the Nippon Columbia record label. In 2001 Denon was...
)
- Bluestruck (1990, Blue Note
Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues...
)
- From The Heart (1991, Blue Note)
- Warsaw Jazz Festival 1991 (1993, Jazzmen)
- Unforgettable (1993, Blue Note)
- Triple Helix (1994, Enja)
- Spark (1994, Blue Note)
- With Kikuchi Acoustic Boogie (1996, Blue Note; collaboration with Masabumi Kikuchi)
- Live In Warsaw (1996, Who's Who In Jazz)
- Into The Heaven (2000, Columbia Records)