A Tap Dancer's Son Who Learned Steps Before Scales, Joined Hideo Shiraki's Quintet, and Made Tokyo's Trumpet Case Abroad

Terumasa Hino (日野皓正) was born on October 25, 1942, in Tokyo. His father, Toshi, was both a tap dancer and a trumpeter, and the son reportedly took up the same two skills in the same order: tap at four, trumpet at nine. As a teenager he copied out solos by Clifford Brown, Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan. In the mid-1960s he joined drummer Hideo Shiraki's quintet, whose Berlin Jazz Festival appearance put the group in front of a European audience. His first record as a leader, Alone, Alone and Alone, followed in 1967; Hi-Nology (1969) used his younger brother, the drummer Motohiko Hino, in the band. In 1975 he moved his base to the United States. The two Wikipedias disagree on small points (the year he joined Shiraki, and the dates of his state honors), so those are left loosely stated here.