is a
jazz guitarist
Jazz guitarists are guitarists who play jazz using an approach to chords, melodies, and improvised solo lines which is called jazz guitar playing. The guitar has fulfilled the roles of accompanist (rhythm guitar) and lead guitar, soloist in small ...
.
Jim Hall calls his former protégé, "an excellent jazz guitarist with a keen musical imagination."
Born in
Kobe
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Japan
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, Inoue studied at Kyoto's Fuji School of Music from 1979-81. Between 1981-1988, he led his own groups in Japan. He moved to
New York City in 1989 to study at
The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music where he met Hall. He has been on the faculty of the university since his senior year.
The two performed together on a guitar duet that was featured on Hall's widely used instructional video collection called ''Jazz Guitar Master Class Volumes 1&2''. In 2005, Hall and Inoue appeared in ''
Village Vanguard'' 70th anniversary together.
Over the years, Inoue has toured with
jazz greats such as
James Moody;
James Williams; Cecil Bridgewater;
Frank Foster;
Slide Hampton
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;
Barry Harris;
Jimmy Heath; Arnie Lawrence;
Jack McDuff
Eugene McDuff (September 17, 1926 – January 23, 2001), known professionally as "Brother" Jack McDuff or "Captain" Jack McDuff, was an American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who was most prominent during the hard bop and soul jazz era ...
;
Junior Mance;
Jon Faddis
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; Akira Tana;
The Clayton Brothers and Toshiko Akiyoshi.
His own band has gigged at New York's top jazz venues - past and present - including
The Blue Note,
Sweet Basil,
Birdland, Smoke,
the Village Gate and Zinc Bar.
For twelve years, Inoue has brought American musicians to Japan to conduct fall tours for concerts and workshops, including the "Big Apple in Nonoichi" festival.
Jazz critics and musicians have known about Satoshi Inoue for quite some time. A jazz historian
Ira Gitler describes hearing Satoshi live in the early 1990s at Sazerac House, a restaurant on
New York
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's
Hudson Street: "I was taken with the unforced flow of his ideas and the mellow sound with which he transmitted them".
His lectures on
jazz standards appear monthly in a Japanese jazz magazine called ''Jazz Life''.
Discography
*1996: ''Plays Satoshi'' (Paddle Wheel Records)
* 1999: ''Songs'' (Paddle Wheel)
* 2002: ''Live At Smoke'' (What's New Records)
* 2003: ''Guitars Alone'' (What's New) duet with
Peter Bernstein Peter Bernstein may refer to:
*Peter Bernstein (composer) (born 1951), American film and television composer
* Peter Bernstein (guitarist) (born 1967), American jazz guitarist
*Peter L. Bernstein
Peter Lewyn Bernstein (January 22, 1919 – Ju ...
* 2006: ''Melodic Compositions'' (What's New)
* 2014: ''Plays
Jim Hall'' (What's New)
Notes and references
External links
Official siteThe New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
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Japanese jazz guitarists
Inoue, Satoshi
Inoue, Satoshi