
Trombone — Japanese. Jazz-Funk / Jazz Fusion / Modal Jazz / Post-Bop.
Hiroshi Fukumura came into Japanese jazz through the side door that turned out to be the main one. He studied at the Yamaha music school run by Sadao Watanabe, and on graduation Watanabe took him straight into his own band. Fukumura stayed with him for most of the 1970s, which put a trombonist barely out of school on stage nightly with the most internationally visible musician in Japanese jazz.