Terumasa Hino

[Mark Stryker]

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE5DB1238F931A35755C0A96E948260

Stumbled across this review today while looking for something else and was struck by the weird instrumentation -- trumpet, alto, tuba (!) two drummers (!). Did anybody hear this group or know if Hino ever recorded a version of it, perhaps for Japanese issue? I did find this clip on youtube, with Billy Pierce, Howard Johnson, Victor Lewis and Ralph Peterson. Sometimes it sounds kinda hip, other times it's pretty much a mess. But it's unique ... would like to hear other material rather than a standard.

I've always really liked Hino's playing -- raw, go-for-broke post-bop. He sounds fantastic on Hal Galper's "Now Hear This" (Enja, 1977), an incendiary quartet album, one of the great under-sung modern-modal-mainstream records. With Cecil McBee and Tony Williams. A taste:

It's hard to play trumpet like that ... metal on flesh.

Edited March 21, 2011 by Mark Stryker

[Afric Pepperbird]

Yeah, he's a real treat. I've not seen that before!

Here's a great Hino discography.

Edited March 21, 2011 by Afric Pepperbird

[CJ Shearn]

Great tune. That'll be an album to put want list. Lots of Woody in Hino's tone there, I've heard the strong Freddie influence on other stuff. Some of Tony's most creative playing of the period on that tune also,

[BFrank]

I've always really liked Hino's playing -- raw, go-for-broke post-bop. He sounds fantastic on Hal Galper's "Now Hear This" (Enja, 1977), an incendiary quartet album, one of the great under-sung modern-modal-mainstream records. With Cecil McBee and Tony Williams. A taste:

It's hard to play trumpet like that ... metal on flesh.

I picked that up when it came out. Rock solid band there, for sure. I think that came out at a time when Tony wasn't very active, so it was a treat to hear him on any album.