ESB + Itaru Oki

ESB + Itaru Oki

20th Jun 2009

Born in Kobe, Japan in 1941, Oki Itaru was raised in a rich musical environment; his father was a player of the Shakuhachi (Japanese vertical flute), while his mother was a master of the Koto (Japanese horizontal harp). Oki started to play the trumpet in his high school brass band. Moving through the Dixieland and bop styles, he took on free jazz in the late 1960s and joined with Togashi Masahiko and Sato Masahiko to form ESSG (their first tour of Europe took place in 1969). Following his subsequent formation of the Oki Itaru Trio (which later grew into a quartet) Oki moved to Paris in 1974 and since then he has continually performed at concerts and festivals in France and throughout Europe with such free jazz luminaries as Sunny Murray, Michel Pilz, Arthur Doyle, Noah Howard and Alan Silva among others.

Born in Kobe, Japan in 1941, Oki Itaru was raised in a rich musical environment; his father was a player of the Shakuhachi (Japanese vertical flute), while his mother was a master of the Koto (Japanese horizontal harp). Oki started to play the trumpet in his high school brass band. Moving through the Dixieland and bop styles, he took on free jazz in the late 1960s and joined with Togashi Masahiko and Sato Masahiko to form ESSG (their first tour of Europe took place in 1969). Following his subsequent formation of the Oki Itaru Trio (which later grew into a quartet) Oki moved to Paris in 1974 and since then he has continually performed at concerts and festivals in France and throughout Europe with such free jazz luminaries as Sunny Murray, Michel Pilz, Arthur Doyle, Noah Howard and Alan Silva among others. Born in Kobe, Japan in 1941, Oki Itaru was raised in a rich musical environment; his father was a player of the Shakuhachi (Japanese vertical flute), while his mother was a master of the Koto (Japanese horizontal harp). Oki started to play the trumpet in his high school brass band. Moving through the Dixieland and bop styles, he took on free jazz in the late 1960s and joined with Togashi Masahiko and Sato Masahiko to form ESSG (their first tour of Europe took place in 1969). Following his subsequent formation of the Oki Itaru Trio (which later grew into a quartet) Oki moved to Paris in 1974 and since then he has continually performed at concerts and festivals in France and throughout Europe with such free jazz luminaries as Sunny Murray, Michel Pilz, Arthur Doyle, Noah Howard and Alan Silva among others.
Born in Kobe, Japan in 1941, Oki Itaru was raised in a rich musical environment; his father was a player of the Shakuhachi (Japanese vertical flute), while his mother was a master of the Koto (Japanese horizontal harp). Oki started to play the trumpet in his high school brass band. Moving through the Dixieland and bop styles, he took on free jazz in the late 1960s and joined with Togashi Masahiko and Sato Masahiko to form ESSG (their first tour of Europe took place in 1969). Following his subsequent formation of the Oki Itaru Trio (which later grew into a quartet) Oki moved to Paris in 1974 and since then he has continually performed at concerts and festivals in France and throughout Europe with such free jazz luminaries as Sunny Murray, Michel Pilz, Arthur Doyle, Noah Howard and Alan Silva among others. Born in Kobe, Japan in 1941, Oki Itaru was raised in a rich musical environment; his father was a player of the Shakuhachi (Japanese vertical flute), while his mother was a master of the Koto (Japanese horizontal harp). Oki started to play the trumpet in his high school brass band. Moving through the Dixieland and bop styles, he took on free jazz in the late 1960s and joined with Togashi Masahiko and Sato Masahiko to form ESSG (their first tour of Europe took place in 1969). Following his subsequent formation of the Oki Itaru Trio (which later grew into a quartet) Oki moved to Paris in 1974 and since then he has continually performed at concerts and festivals in France and throughout Europe with such free jazz luminaries as Sunny Murray, Michel Pilz, Arthur Doyle, Noah Howard and Alan Silva among others. Born in Kobe, Japan in 1941, Oki Itaru was raised in a rich musical environment; his father was a player of the Shakuhachi (Japanese vertical flute), while his mother was a master of the Koto (Japanese horizontal harp). Oki started to play the trumpet in his high school brass band. Moving through the Dixieland and bop styles, he took on free jazz in the late 1960s and joined with Togashi Masahiko and Sato Masahiko to form ESSG (their first tour of Europe took place in 1969). Following his subsequent formation of the Oki Itaru Trio (which later grew into a quartet) Oki moved to Paris in 1974 and since then he has continually performed at concerts and festivals in France and throughout Europe with such free jazz luminaries as Sunny Murray, Michel Pilz, Arthur Doyle, Noah Howard and Alan Silva among others.