Jazz Articles about Hideaki Tokunaga

Hideaki "Heday" Tokunaga Quintet: Live at Plaza de la Raza

by Jack Bowers
March 3, 2006

A little more than a decade ago, when guitarist Hideaki Tokunaga was a student at Cal Arts in Valencia, California, he was named Down Beat magazine's Outstanding Jazz Soloist among collegiate musicians. Based on evidence submitted in this likable session, recorded live in June '02 at the Plaza de la Raza in Los Angeles, that was an excellent choice. Tokunaga plays almost classically, with an enviable clarity of line and tone that underlines a keen grasp of jazz convention. He ...