Results for "Shunzo Ohno"

About Time

By John Clay

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: A Lark; Humpty Dumpty; Alice in Wonderland; Rio; Dubai; Highway 14; Stella by Starlight; Prelude to Spring; You Must Believe in Spring; My New Friend Old Friend.

John Clay: About Time

by Jack Bowers
December 28, 2025

New York-based drummer John Clay's latest album is appropriately titled About Time. For a drummer, of course, every phrase, every measure, every game plan is in essence about time, and Clay keeps exemplary time on each of the album's 10 numbers, as do the other members of his splendid quintet. Clay pilots a burnished ...

Take Five with Dennis Winge

by AAJ Staff
March 10, 2021

Meet Dennis WingeDennis is a professional guitarist living in Ithaca, NY and performs in a variety of musical settings throughout the Finger Lakes including his jazz ensemble, The Way (rock cover band), Matrix flute & guitar duo, Dupree (Steely Dan cover band), solo work and more. Having started to learn guitar at age seven, ...

RUNNER

By Shunzo Ohno

Label: Pulsebeats
Released: 2020
Track listing: 1. EPIC: I. Heroic Dance. II. Emerge. III. Galaxy Bonds. IV. Heroic Dance 2. Moon Over the Castle 3. RUNNER

Shunzo Ohno

Born: March 22, 1949

Shunzo Ohno has reached exhilarating heights, experienced unexpected lows and overcoming unbelievable odds, risen again to surpass even his own successes.Born in Gifu, Japan, Shunzo began his musical training at age 13 on the trombone - the only instrument available in his school. He didn't begin playing the trumpet until age 17, partly inspired by the film "Boy with Trumpet." By age 19, Shunzo was the leading jazz trumpeter in Japan.

Already working as an accomplished composer and arranger in Japan, Shunzo's career hit high gear when he met the renowned bandleader Art Blakey. He toured with Blakey throughout the United States and settled in New York City in 1974 at Blakey's suggestion. During this period, Shunzo maintained a close friendship and working relationship with the bandleader while also working with Norman Connors, Roy Haynes and the Hip Ensemble while leading his own group. His original composition "Bubbles" was featured on Connor's million-selling recording, "You Are My Starship", and became a hit single, attaining gold status. Today, audiences continue to request this favorite tune, "Bubbles".

The Gil Evans Orchestra: Hidden Treasures Vol. 1, Monday Nights

by Jerome Wilson
December 31, 2018

In the '70s composer and arranger Gil Evans, after years of outstanding studio arranging for Miles Davis and others, put together a performing orchestra which took influences from the jazz-rock and fusion concepts of the time. That orchestra released several fine albums such as Svengali (Atlantic, 1973) and There Comes A Time (RCA, 1975) and, on ...

The Gil Evans Orchestra: Hidden Treasures - Monday Night Sessions, vol 1

by Jack Bowers
December 26, 2018

Even though the name Gil Evans has a hallowed ring these days, the late composer / arranger's music remains for many aficionados an acquired taste. On the other hand, while that is the Gil Evans Orchestra performing on Hidden Treasures, Volume 1, the lion's share of the music brought to light isn't his--Evans wrote only two ...

ReNew

By Shunzo Ohno

Label: Pulsebeats Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Easy Does It; renew; Song For Sensei; Musahi; Alone, Not Alone; Tairyo Bushi; Lea’s Run; First Step; ReNew Reprise.

Shunzo Ohno: ReNew

by Tyran Grillo
April 11, 2016

ReNew marks the 16th leader date for Japanese trumpeter Shunzo Ohno, whose evolving proficiency and clarity of tone are matched by an emotional undercurrent all his own. Built around the theme of recovery in the wake of recent natural disasters, among them the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, this album fuses Ohno's diverse influences into one ...

Shunzo Ohno: ReNew

by James Nadal
March 27, 2016

Though the samurai warriors of Japan have passed on to legend and folklore, their Bushido Code of Conduct continues to have an impact of Japanese society. It emphasizes eight virtues, utmost which are honor, discipline and morality. As a son of Japan, trumpeter Shunzo Ohno, has personally adhered to these guiding principles, and ReNew reveals a ...