JUNJI HIROSE

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Born March 29, 1955 in Kokubunji, Tokyo.

Junji Hirose is one of the most unique artists on the Japanese free improvised music scene. Since the eighties he has developed highly diverse and creative sound, playing tenor and soprano sax and the self-made "noise machine."

Hirose started listening to modern jazz in junior high, when he especially liked trumpeters such as Miles Davis and Terumasa Hino. He bought a trumpet and taught himself to play. Having listened to records by Davis's band for some time, he became very interested in John Coltrane, who was in that band. At this time he bought a tenor sax and started to teach himself to play. (He also started to play soprano sax around 1977).

Hirose enrolled in Meiji Gakuin University in 1973, and soon joined the student modern jazz club. While he was still a student, a soul group invited him to play in a recording, which
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JUNJI HIROSE SOund of JAzZ : Gratitude album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
SOund of JAzZ : Gratitude
Avant-Garde Jazz 2012
JUNJI HIROSE Junji Hirose / Yoshinori Mochizuk / IRONFIST Tatsushima : HMT album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Junji Hirose / Yoshinori Mochizuk / IRONFIST Tatsushima : HMT
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2016
JUNJI HIROSE SSI-6 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
SSI-6
Avant-Garde Jazz 2016
JUNJI HIROSE No-Instrument Air Noise album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
No-Instrument Air Noise
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2017
JUNJI HIROSE SSI-7 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
SSI-7
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2020
JUNJI HIROSE Be Quiet!!! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Be Quiet!!!
Avant-Garde Jazz 2023

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JUNJI HIROSE Yoke & Yohs Feat. kazuhisa uchihashi album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Yoke & Yohs Feat. kazuhisa uchihashi
Avant-Garde Jazz 2013

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JUNJI HIROSE Solo Saxophone album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Solo Saxophone
Avant-Garde Jazz 1980
JUNJI HIROSE Hodgepodge album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Hodgepodge
Avant-Garde Jazz 1982
JUNJI HIROSE Chi-Chi-Chi-Nngacah album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Chi-Chi-Chi-Nngacah
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1984
JUNJI HIROSE Junji Hirose /  Otomo Yoshihide : Silanganan Ingay album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Junji Hirose / Otomo Yoshihide : Silanganan Ingay
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1989
JUNJI HIROSE Junji Hirose  / Yoshihide Otomo : Duo album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Junji Hirose / Yoshihide Otomo : Duo
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1989
JUNJI HIROSE The Elements: Tenor Saxophone Solos album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Elements: Tenor Saxophone Solos
Avant-Garde Jazz 2010
JUNJI HIROSE SSI-4 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
SSI-4
Avant-Garde Jazz 2013
JUNJI HIROSE Junji Hirose + Kazuhisa Uchihashi : Saxophonedaxophone album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Junji Hirose + Kazuhisa Uchihashi : Saxophonedaxophone
Avant-Garde Jazz 2015
JUNJI HIROSE SSI-5 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
SSI-5
Avant-Garde Jazz 2015
JUNJI HIROSE Junji Hirose/Toshimaru Nakamura/Darren Moore : Foreign Policy album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Junji Hirose/Toshimaru Nakamura/Darren Moore : Foreign Policy
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2019
JUNJI HIROSE Junji HIrose / Otomo Yoshihide : Duo-1 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Junji HIrose / Otomo Yoshihide : Duo-1
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2022

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