https://mirror2.jazzofjapan.com/tags/%E7%B4%85%E9%87%8E%E6%99%BA%E5%BD%A6/ Recent content in 紅野智彦 on Jazz of Japan | Brian McCrory Hugo en Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://mirror2.jazzofjapan.com/hiroyuki-yamaguchi-quintet-mowna/ Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://mirror2.jazzofjapan.com/hiroyuki-yamaguchi-quintet-mowna/ <p><em>Mowna</em> is a 2024 album from bassist and composer Hiroyuki Yamaguchi. For this release, Yamaguchi wrote and arranged all nine tracks, which he recorded with a quintet composed of several musicians that played on his previous album <em>Inner Perception</em> (2018) by his Thursday Night Sextet, a band formed through jam sessions at the Tokyo jazz bar and local institution Manhattan.</p> <figure><a href="L1290400x-1200.jpeg"> <img loading="lazy" src="L1290400x-1200.jpeg"/> </a> </figure> <p>On <em>Mowna</em>, the returning members from Yamaguchi’s sextet are Hiroko Mase on soprano sax, Hinata Ishii on tenor sax, and bassist Yamaguchi, and newly added members for this release are pianist Toshihiko Kohno and drummer Tomoyuki Okabe.</p>