Masabumi Kikuchi: Hanamichi

Masabumi Kikuchi

Hanamichi

Red Hook Records

Masabumi Kikuchi was a pianist working across jazz and improvisation. We don’t always get to know aspects of the rich story of the Japanese musicians creating jazz unless we seek it out – although Kikuchi not only created solo piano albums and was the leader of small combos, he also intersected with some of the t…