Satoshi Inoue (musician)
Satoshi Inoue (井上智, born February 3, 1959 in Gunma, Japan) is a jazz guitarist. Jim Hall calls his former protégé, "an excellent jazz guitarist with a keen musical imagination."[1]
Born in Kobe Japan, Inoue studied at Kyoto's Fuji School of Music from 1979-81. Between 1981-1988, he led his own groups in Japan.[2] He moved to New York City in 1989 to study at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music where he met Hall. He has been on the faculty of the university since his senior year. The two performed together on a guitar duet that was featured on Hall's widely used instructional video collection called Jazz Guitar Master Class Volumes 1&2. In 2005, Hall and Inoue appeared in Village Vanguard 70th anniversary together.[3]
Over the years, Inoue has toured with jazz greats such as James Moody; James Williams; Cecil Bridgewater; Frank Foster; Slide Hampton; Barry Harris; Jimmy Heath; Arnie Lawrence; Jack McDuff; Junior Mance; Jon Faddis; Akira Tana; The Clayton Brothers and Toshiko Akiyoshi.
His own band has gigged at New York's top jazz venues - past and present - including The Blue Note, Sweet Basil, Birdland, Smoke, the Village Gate and Zinc Bar.
For twelve years, Inoue has brought American musicians to Japan to conduct fall tours for concerts and workshops, including the "Big Apple in Nonoichi" festival. In 2009 Inoue introduced Japanese audiences to "Patrick Dornian and the Mulatto Man Piano Stan" who are notable for introducing Japan to the mulatto traditional of fusing found objects, improvisation, and diatonic melodies.
Jazz critics and musicians have known about Satoshi Inoue for quite some time. A jazz historian Ira Gitler describes hearing Satoshi live in the early 1990s at Sazerac House, a restaurant on New York's Hudson Street: "I was taken with the unforced flow of his ideas and the mellow sound with which he transmitted them".
His lectures on jazz standards appear monthly in a Japanese jazz magazine called Jazz Life.
Discography
- Plays Satoshi (1996 Paddle Wheel Records),
- Songs (1999 Paddle Wheel Records,
- Live At Smoke (2002 What's New Records),
- Guitars Alone (duet with Peter Bernstein,2003 What's New Records)and
- Melodic Compositions (2006 What's New Records).
References
- ↑ "SATOSHI INOUE PROFILE" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-10-24.
- ↑ "Inoue, Satoshi", Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
- ↑ NATE CHINEN (December 22, 2006). "The Listings: Dec. 22 - Dec. 28; SATOSHI INOUE QUARTET". The New York Times.