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]

Discography

  • First Album (Columbia, 1971)
  • Sailing Ice (TBM, 1976)
  • Sailing Stone (Gramavision, 1992)
  • It's There (Fun House, 1993)

With Jon Faddis and Billy Harper

With Joe Henderson

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 1153. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
  2. ↑ "Motohiko Hino". Secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 Motohiko Hino at AllMusic


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