Reviews that mention Masabumi Kikuchi
December 18, 2021
Live at Little John, Yokohama 1999
NoBusiness NBCD 144
Itaru Oki Quartet
Live at Jazz Spot Combo 1975
NoBusiness NBCD 143
Masayuki JoJo Takayangi/Nobuyoshi Ino/Masabumi Puu Kikuchi
Live at Jazz Inn Lovely 1990
NoBusiness NBCD 135
Sabu Toyozumi/Rick Countryman
Misaki Castle Tower
Chap Chap Records CPCD-0190
Taku Sugimoto & Takashi Masubuchi
Live at Otooto & Permian
Confront Core Series core 16
Something in the Air: Japanese Improvised Music Has Taken and MORE
December 18, 2021
Masayuki JoJo Takayangi/Nobuyoshi Ino/Masabumi Puu Kikuchi
Live at Jazz Inn Lovely 1990
NoBusiness NBCD 135
Itaru Oki Quartet
Live at Jazz Spot Combo 1975
NoBusiness NBCD 143
Takagi/Kongo/Takeuchi/Koyama
Live at Little John, Yokohama 1999
NoBusiness NBCD 144
Sabu Toyozumi/Rick Countryman
Misaki Castle Tower
Chap Chap Records CPCD-0190
Taku Sugimoto & Takashi Masubuchi
Live at Otooto & Permian
Confront Core Series core 16
Something in the Air: Japanese Improvised Music Has Taken and MORE
December 6, 2014
Thomas Morgan
By Ken Waxman
Thomas Morgan didn’t have much time for an interview when contacted by TNYCJR. Back in New York for a few days after a couple of months touring overseas with pianist Craig Taborn’s trio and Danish guitarist Jakob Bro’s multi-media quintet, within the week he was off across the Atlantic for most of a month to take the bass spot in two different working bands: drummer Jim Black’s trio and Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko’s quartet. Constant touring is just part of life for Morgan, 33, who has been one of the city’s busiest bassist almost since arriving here from his native California 15 years ago. Featured on more than 70 CDs, Morgan honed his skill with as many groups as he can, including those led by veterans such as Japanese pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, drummer Paul Motian and guitarists Bill Frisell. MORE
August 6, 2012
Sunrise
ECM 2096
Russ Lossing
Drum Music (Music of Paul Motian)
Sunnyside SSC 1319
By Ken Waxman
Although inextricably linked to Bill Evans for his sensitive work in the pianist’s trio of the early ‘60s, drummer Paul Motian (1931-2011) developed his minimalist rhythmic sense earlier in clarinetist Tony Scott’s quartet and extended himself as a band leader and composer from 1972 onwards. Helmed by two pianists of widely divergent ages and backgrounds, these fine CDs celebrate Motian’s contributions as a player and writer. MORE
July 12, 2004
Experiencing Tosca
Winter & Winter 910 093-2
WHO TRIO
The Current Underneath
Leo CD LR 379
Two approaches to the standard jazz piano trio end up with vastly different results with only one making a major statement.
On THE CURRENT UNDERNEATH, Swiss pianist Michel Wintsch puts aside the sentimental streak that undermined earlier efforts with his Euro-American WHO Trio to create nine slices of thoughtful improvised music. Japanese pianist Masabumi Kikuchi and his two famous American sidemen in Tethered Moon, seems to have picked up all the indolent romanticism cast aside by Wintsch however, making EXPERIENCING TOSCA, a torpid and somewhat lugubrious exercise, more notable for lockstep methodology and top-flight recording sound than a range of emotions. MORE