Motohiko Ichino

Guitarist/Composer MOTOHIKO ICHINO graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1999,where he studied with Mick Goodrick,Bret Willmott and Jon Damian. After he went back to Japan in 2001, he settled in Tokyo city and started active career as performer, composer and teacher. In 2003, he won the first prize in the annual Gibson Japan Jazz Guitar Contest. He released CD "Sketches"(Ammonite Musique/ available at http://cdbaby.com/ ) in 2007,which contains 10 compositions of his own. In 2008 he released his second CD"Time Flows(like water)"(BounDEE). Besides playing his music as a leader ,he is busy as a sideman for many bands. He is playing on saxophonist Ryosuke Hashizume's CD "Wordless"(Polystar) "As We Breathe"(BounDEE), saxophonist Taiichi Kamimura's "A Girl From New Mexico"(EWE) "Out of My Throat"(EWE / with Taiichi,Ben Monder,Drew Gress and Take Toriyama). MyGen Profile Generator