Terumasa Hino

Jazz trumpet, cornet, and flugelhorn player Terumasa Hino was born in Tokyo, Japan on October 25, 1942. At the age of four, he followed in his father’s footsteps – literally – and started tap dancing before he took up the trumpet when he was nine. He began his professional jazz career in the 1950s but didn’t come to prominence until he joined drummer Hideo Shiraki’s Quintet in 1965. He stayed with the quintet until 1969 when he left to lead his own band. He had already released several solo albums during his time with Hideo Shiraki – including Alone, Alone and Alone (1967). Beautiful Trumpet (1967) and Feelin’ Good (1968) – but his 1969 album Hi-Nology was his critical breakthrough. By the time of his 1970 album Into the Heaven, he had gravitated to free jazz, funk, and avant-garde. After a series of albums including Alone Together (1970), Peace and Love (1971), Fuji (1972), Taro’s Mood (1973), and Journey Into My Mind (1973), he relocated to New York City in 1974. He recorded several solo albums throughout the rest of the 1970s and collaborated with several other artists before he began to spend more time back in his homeland of Japan. His later albums include Spark (1994), Moment (1996), D.N.A. (2001), Dragon (2005) and Aftershock (2011). Terumasa Hino has also collaborated with many jazz greats over the course of his career including Sadao Watanabe, Bob Moses, Kimiko Itoh, Johnny Hartman, Gil Evans, Joe Henderson, Mal Waldron, John Scofield, Alphonse Mouzon, and many others. In Japan, he was awarded with the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon (2014) and Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette (2015).

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