Results for "Hideaki Tokunaga"

Hideaki Tokunaga

Just Us

By Hideaki Tokunaga

Label: Alpine Field
Released: 2011

Aimee Nolte & Hideaki Tokunaga: Just Us

by Jack Bowers
May 9, 2011

This genial album by singer/pianist Aimee Nolte and guitarist Hideaki Tokunaga consists of eleven original compositions, all of them written or co-written by Nolte. While there are snippets of jazz from time to time, they are more peripheral than essential. The spotlight is most often on Nolte's voice, which is clear and steady but otherwise unexceptional. ...

Live at Plaza de la Raza

By Hideaki Tokunaga

Label: Music Sweethearts
Released: 2006
Track listing: Heavy Sushi; Sunday Drive (Take I); Octagon Chamber; Online; From Paradise to Utopia; Enough of Your Childishness; Tally; Sunday Drive (Take II); Kashimier; Mama Chan (70:56).

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 ...