Died 13 May 1999 | Genre Jazz | |
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Albums Sailing Stone, It's There, One Who Sees All Things Record labels Gramavision, Fun House, Smalls Records Similar Terumasa Hino, Steve Grossman, Mike Stern, John Scofield, Billy Hart | ||
Motohiko "Toko" Hino (January 3, 1946 in Tokyo – May 13, 1999) was a Japanese jazz drummer.
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Hino's father, who was a dancer and musician, taught Hino and his brother, Terumasa Hino, tap dancing as children. At the age of ten, Hino began playing drums, and by age 17 was playing professionally.
In the mid-1970s, Hino was repeatedly voted by Swing Journal the best jazz drummer in Japan, though from 1978 he was based in New York City. 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, Joe Henderson, Takehiro Honda, Karen Mantler, Hugh Masekela, John Scofield, Jean-Luc Ponty, and Sonny Rollins.
He died in 1999 of cancer.
Discography
With Jon Faddis and Billy Harper
Songs
It's ThereIt's There · 1993
The Rain SongIt's There · 1993
Stairway to HeavenIt's There · 1993