Motohiko "Toko" Hino (January 3, 1946 in Tokyo [1] – May 13, 1999) [2] was a Japanese jazz drummer.
Hino's father, who was a dancer and musician, taught Hino and his brother, Terumasa Hino, tap dancing as children. [3] At the age of ten, Hino began playing drums, and by age 17 was playing professionally. [1]
In the mid-1970s, Hino was repeatedly voted by Swing Journal as the best jazz drummer in Japan, [3] though from 1978 he was based in New York City. [1] He released an album under his own name in 1971 and two more in the early 1990s, and played with musicians such as JoAnne Brackeen, [1] Joe Henderson, [1] Takehiro Honda, Nobuyoshi Ino, Karen Mantler, Hugh Masekela, [1] John Scofield, Jean-Luc Ponty, [1] Sonny Rollins, and Shungo Sawada.
He died in 1999 of cancer. [3]
With Jon Faddis and Billy Harper
With Joe Henderson
Motohiko "Toko" Hino (January 3, 1946 in Tokyo [1] – May 13, 1999) [2] was a Japanese jazz drummer.
Hino's father, who was a dancer and musician, taught Hino and his brother, Terumasa Hino, tap dancing as children. [3] At the age of ten, Hino began playing drums, and by age 17 was playing professionally. [1]
In the mid-1970s, Hino was repeatedly voted by Swing Journal as the best jazz drummer in Japan, [3] though from 1978 he was based in New York City. [1] He released an album under his own name in 1971 and two more in the early 1990s, and played with musicians such as JoAnne Brackeen, [1] Joe Henderson, [1] Takehiro Honda, Nobuyoshi Ino, Karen Mantler, Hugh Masekela, [1] John Scofield, Jean-Luc Ponty, [1] Sonny Rollins, and Shungo Sawada.
He died in 1999 of cancer. [3]
With Jon Faddis and Billy Harper
With Joe Henderson