Kiyoshi Kitagawa

Japanese jazz bassist, composer, and arranger

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Kiyoshi Kitagawa

Kitagawa performing at the 2018 Oslo Jazz Festival

Background information
Born|  (1958-12-05) December 5, 1958 (age 66)
Osaka, Japan
Genres| Jazz
Occupation| Musician
Instrument| Double bass
Years active| 1980s–present
Labels| Atelier Sawano

Musical artist

Kiyoshi Kitagawa (北川 潔) (born December 5, 1958, in Osaka) is a Japanese-American jazz double-bassist.

## Career

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Kitagawa first played bass guitar, and was in a rock band as a high school student. He switched to double bass while a student at Kansei Gakuin Daigaku, and played in the 1980s with Sadayasu Fuji and Takashi Furuya. In October 1988, he immigrated to the United States, where he lived in New York City.[1] Kitagawa joined to Winard Harper's the Harper Brothers, and played with Kenny Barron, Andy Bey, Jon Faddis, Kenny Garrett, Jimmy Heath, Susannah McCorkle, Makoto Ozone, Ben Riley, and Terrell Stafford in the late 1980s and 1990s. He worked with Barron again several times in the 2000s, as well as with Brian Blade and Danny Grissett, and worked in the 2010s with Regina Carter and Charles McPherson.

## Discography

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### As leader

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* Ancestry (Atelier Sawano, 2004)
* Prayer (Atelier Sawano, 2005)
* Solo (Atelier Sawano, 2006)
* Live at Tsutenkaku (DVD-Video, Atelier Sawano, 2006)
* I'm Still Here (Atelier Sawano, 2007)
* Solo 2 (Atelier Sawano, 2008) – with photo album
* Live in Japan' (Atelier Sawano, 2008) – compilation. live recorded in 2005.
* Walkin' Ahead (Atelier Sawano, 2015)
* Turning Point (Atelier Sawano, 2017)
* Spring Night (Atelier Sawano, 2020)

### As sideman

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#### With Makoto Ozone

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* Makoto Ozone – The Trio (Polydor, 1997)
* Dear Oscar (Polydor, 1998)
* Three Wishes (Verve, 1998)
* No Strings Attached (Polydor, 1999)

#### With Kenny Barron

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* Images (Sunnyside, 2003)
* The Traveler (Sunnyside, 2008)
* Book of Intuition (Impulse!, 2016)
* Concentric Circles (Blue Note, 2018)
* Beyond This Place (Artwork, 2024)

#### With others

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* The Harper Brothers, Remembrance Live at The Village Vanguard (Verve, 1990)
* Susannah McCorkle, From Bessie to Brazil (Concord Jazz, 1993)
* Kenny Garrett, Triology (Warner Bros., 1995)
* Jimmy Heath, You or Me (SteepleChase, 1995)
* Terell Stafford, Fields of Gold (Nagel Heyer, 2000) – recorded in 1999
* Jon Faddis, Teranga (Koch, 2006)
* Ben Riley, Memories of T (Concord Jazz, 2006)

## References

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1. ^ "アーティスト / 北川 潔" [Artist / Kiyoshi Kitagawa]. Atelier Sawano. Retrieved January 30, 2021.

* Kazunori Sugiyama, "Kiyoshi Kitagawa". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld, 2004.

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