Hiroshi Fukumura

Hiroshi Fukumura (福村博) (born February 21, 1949, Tokyo) is a Japanese jazz trombonist.

Fukumura played with Sadao Watanabe for much of the 1970s, excepting a period where he studied in the United States at the New England Conservatory of Music.^[1] He led his own quintet, which included Shigeharu Mukai as a sideman, for a studio recording and a live release in 1973. He was a member of Native Son and also worked with Takehiro Honda, Gil Evans, Hidefumi Toki, and others.

Discography

• Morning Flight (Three Blind Mice, 1973)
• Live:First Flight (Trio Records, 1973)
• Hunt Up Wind with Sadao Watanabe (Flying Disk, 1978)
• Nice Day (Insights, 1981)
• Hot Shot (Morning, 1985)

References

1. "Hiroshi Fukumura". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.