Masabumi Kikuchi

Masabumi Kikuchi
Birth name	Masabumi Kikuchi
Also known as	Poo Sun
Born	19 October 1939
Origin	Tokyo, Japan
Genres	Jazz
Instruments	Piano
Associated acts	Lionel Hampton Sonny Rollins Woody Herman Mal Waldron
Website	Official Site (Japanese) Fan Site

Masabumi Kikuchi (菊地 雅章, Kikuchi Masabumi^?, born 19 October 1939) is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer born in Tokyo, Japan, notable for working with a variety of well known jazz musicians such as Lionel Hampton, Sonny Rollins, Woody Herman, Mal Waldron, Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Miles Davis, Billy Harper and Hannibal Peterson.

Select discography

As bandleader

• Melancholy Girl (Universal Records)
• Slash Trio (3d Records)
• Slash Trio, Vol. 2 (3d Records)
• After Hours, Vol. 2 (Blue Note Records)
• Dreamachine (Pioneer Records)
• East Wind (East Wind Records)
• Aaobb (3d Records)
• Wishes/Kochi (Inner City Records)

With Pee Wee Ellis

• Blues Mission (Gramavision Records)

With Terumasa Hino

• Acoustic Boogie (Blue Note Records)
• Hino=Kikuchi Quintet (Columbia Records)
• Moment: Alive at Blue Note Tokyo (EMI)

With Helen Merrill

• You and the Night and the Music (Verve Records)

With Paul Motian

• Tethered Moon: Experiencing Tosca with Gary Peacock (Winter & Winter Records)
• Tethered Moon: First Meeting with Gary Peacock (Winter & Winter Records)
• 2000 + One (Winter & Winter, 1997)
• Live at the Village Vanguard (Winter & Winter, 2006)
• Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. II (Winter & Winter, 2006)
• Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. III (Winter & Winter, 2006)

With Takeshi Shibuya

• Tandem (Universal Records)

With Mal Waldron

• Mal: Live 4 to 1 (Philips, 1971)

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Name	Kikuchi, Masabumi
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Date of birth	19 October 1939
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