Motohiko "Toko" Hino (January 3, 1946 in Tokyo[1] – May 13, 1999)[2] was a Japanese jazz drummer.
Hino's father, who was a dancer and musician, taught Hino and his brother, Terumasa Hino, tap dancing as children.[3] At the age of ten, Hino began playing drums, and by age 17 was playing professionally.[1]
In the mid-1970s, Hino was repeatedly voted by Swing Journal as the best jazz drummer in Japan,[3] though from 1978 he was based in New York City.[1] He released an album under his own name in 1971 and two more in the early 1990s, and played with musicians such as JoAnne Brackeen,[1] Joe Henderson,[1] Takehiro Honda, Nobuyoshi Ino, Karen Mantler, Hugh Masekela,[1] John Scofield, Jean-Luc Ponty,[1] Sonny Rollins, and Shungo Sawada.
Discography
edit- First Album (Columbia, 1971)
- Sailing Ice (TBM, 1976)
- Sailing Stone (Gramavision, 1992)
- It's There (Fun House, 1993)
With Jon Faddis and Billy Harper
- Jon & Billy (Trio, 1974)
With Joe Henderson
- Joe Henderson in Japan (Milestone, 1973)
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 1153. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
- ^ "Motohiko Hino". Secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ a b c Motohiko Hino at AllMusic
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