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Tiger Okoshi is a versatile trumpeter who has played both fusion and fairly straight-ahead jazz. A resident of the U.S. since 1972,
Okoshi first gained attention playing with
Gary Burton; he also had a stint with
George Russell's Living Time Orchestra in the early '90s and recorded with
Bob Moses.
Okoshi has recorded regularly as a leader for JVC, including an unusual
Louis Armstrong tribute album, Echoes of a Note, on which he drastically modernized some Dixieland standards. Color of Soil followed in 1998. ~ Scott Yanow