Satoshi Inoue (musician)
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is a jazz guitarist
. Jim Hall
calls his former protege, "an excellent jazz guitarist with a keen musical imagination."
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. He moved to New York
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.
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.
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.
Jazz guitarist
Jazz guitarists are guitar players who play jazz music on the guitar using an approach to playing chords, melodies, and improvised solo lines which is called jazz guitar playing. The guitar has fulfilled the roles of accompanist and soloist in small and large ensembles and also as an unaccompanied...
. Jim Hall
Jim Hall (musician)
James Stanley Hall is an American jazz guitarist.-Biography:Educated at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Hall moved to Los Angeles where he began to attract national, and then international, attention in the late 1950s...
calls his former protege, "an excellent jazz guitarist with a keen musical imagination."
Born in Kobe
Kobe
, pronounced , is the fifth-largest city in Japan and is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture on the southern side of the main island of Honshū, approximately west of Osaka...
Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, 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...
, Inoue studied at Kyoto's Fuji School of Music from 1979-81. Between 1981-1988, he led his own groups in Japan. He moved to New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
in 1989 to study at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music is the second conservatory of The New School university. It is located on 13th Street in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood.-History:...
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
Village Vanguard
The Village Vanguard is a jazz club located at in Greenwich Village, New York City. The club was opened on February 22, 1935, by Max Gordon. At first, it also featured other forms of music such as folk music and beat poetry, but it switched to an all-jazz format in 1957.-History:Over 100 jazz...
70th anniversary together.
Over the years, Inoue has toured with jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
greats such as James Moody
James Moody (saxophonist)
James Moody was an American jazz saxophone and flute player. He was best known for his hit "Moody's Mood for Love," an improvisation based on "I'm in the Mood for Love"; in performance, he often improvised vocals for the tune.-Biography:James Moody was born in Savannah, Georgia...
; James Williams
James Williams
-In American politics:*James Williams , U.S. Congressman from Delaware*James D. Williams , US Representative from Indiana and governor of Indiana...
; Cecil Bridgewater; Frank Foster
Frank Foster (musician)
Frank Foster was an American tenor and soprano saxophonist, flautist, arranger, and composer. Foster collaborated frequently with Count Basie and worked as a bandleader from the early 1950s.-Biography:...
; Slide Hampton
Slide Hampton
Locksley Wellington "Slide" Hampton is an American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger.He was a 1998 Grammy Award winner for "Best Jazz Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist", as arranger for "Cotton Tail" performed by Dee Dee Bridgewater...
; Barry Harris
Barry Harris
Barry Doyle Harris is an American bebop jazz pianist and educator.-Biography:Harris left Detroit for New York City in 1960...
; Jimmy Heath
Jimmy Heath
James Edward Heath , nicknamed Little Bird, is an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger. He is the brother of bassist Percy Heath and drummer Albert Heath.-Biography:...
; Arnie Lawrence; Jack McDuff
Jack McDuff
"Brother" Jack McDuff was an American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who was most prominent during the hard bop and soul jazz era of the 1960s, often performing with an organ trio.-Career:...
; Junior Mance
Junior Mance
Julian Clifford Mance, Jr. is an American jazz pianist and composer.-Biography:...
; Jon Faddis
Jon Faddis
Jon Faddis is an American jazz trumpet player, conductor, composer, and educator renowned for both his highly virtuosic command of the instrument and for his expertise in the field of music education...
; 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
Birdland (jazz club)
Birdland is a jazz club started in New York City on December 15, 1949. The original Birdland, which was located at 1678 Broadway, just north of West 52nd Street in Manhattan, was closed in 1965 due to increased rents, but it re-opened for one night in 1979...
, Smoke, the Village Gate
The Village Gate
The Village Gate was a nightclub at the corner of Thompson and Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, New York.Art D'Lugoff opened the club in 1958, on the ground floor and basement of 158 Bleecker Street. The large 1896 Chicago School structure by architect Ernest Flagg was known at the time as...
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.
Jazz critics and musicians have known about Satoshi Inoue for quite some time. A jazz historian Ira Gitler
Ira Gitler
Ira Gitler is an American jazz historian and journalist. Perhaps best known for The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz written with Leonard Feather—the most recent edition appeared in 1999—he has written hundreds of liner notes for jazz recordings since the early 1950s and is the author of dozens...
describes hearing Satoshi live in the early 1990s at Sazerac House, a restaurant on New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
's Hudson Street
Hudson Street
Hudson Street may refer to:* Hudson Street , 2000 debut album by Northern Irish electronic duo Agnelli & Nelson* Hudson Street , north/south oriented street in the New York City borough of Manhattan...
: "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.
Discogrpahy
- 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).