Takahashi Tomoki - 1979 - Tomoki

Takahashi Tomoki

1979

Tomoki

01. Trial Road 8:25

02. Origin 11:40

03. Open Mind 9:45

04. Polar Star 11:18

Bass – Haruo Ogoshi, Hideaki Mochizuki, Tamio Kawabata

Drums – Nobuo Fujii, Ryojiro Furusawa, Shota Koyama

Guitar – Kazumi Watanabe

Keyboards – Kazuhide Motooka

Soprano Saxophone – Tomoki Takahashi

Tenor Saxophone – Tomoki Takahashi

Trombone – Shigeharu Mukai

Tomoki Takahashi played in the Japanese jazz scene from the early 1970s , including with Shigeharu Mukai , with whom he made his first recordings in 1974 ( For My Little Bird ). He also played with Yosuke Yamashita , Takeo Moriyama , Ryōjirō Furusawa , Kazuhiko Tsumura and, in 1982, with Akira Sakata . In 1979 he recorded his debut album Tomoki (Better Days), with Shigeharu Mukai, Kazuhide Motooka , Kazumi Watanabe , Kawabata Tamio and Ryōjirō Furusawa . In June 1980, he began a musical collaboration with Elvin Jones , resulting in the album Another Soil , for the Denon record label (with Shigeharu Mukai, Kiyoshi Sugimoto , Junichiro Ohkuchi , and bassists Hideaki Mochizuki and Tamio Kawabata ). In jazz, he participated in 12 recording sessions between 1974 and 1997. He recorded a live album, Make Someone Happy , with Kazuhide Motooka ( piano ), Satoshi Kosugi (bass), and Fumio Watanabe ( drums ). [1] In later years, he worked with his own bands, including a group with Kazuhiko Tsumura, Nobuyuki Komatsu , and Tomoyuki Shima . [2] More recently, in 2016, he played with Sachiko Ikuta , Sho Kudo , and Ryo Saito .