Naruyoshi Kikuchi

I live near the Pit Inn Shinjuku (perhaps the nearest neighbor as a Pit Inn musician in the Japanese jazz history since I can get there in 5 minutes by running.) I also walk by Pit Inn Shinjuku daily (almost 365 days a year), and bring some snacks like senbei and dango to there when I drop by as a neighbor. However, because of my lack of virtue, I am not asked to play with bands so often, so perhaps as a musician, I play there only once or none in one season.

It is not good. When I was young in the bubble economy, I used to play at Pit Inn for three times in the morning, afternoon and evening like a grand-slam player. There were days when I ate and took a nap all day at Pit Inn. I grew up at Pit Inn like that (I have never become a regular performer at any other club besides Pit Inn), but I might end up to be just a neighbor who is like coming by a barber but just talking without having actual haircut at all.

So I decided to hold 3-day concerts once a year at Pit Inn, and this is the 4th event. I appreciated the audience who filled the room every time I played there.

I am always excited with thinking about what to play and whom to play, but it ends up to the same result every year. The musicians I play with are: Yosuke Yamashita, the only person that I can call my mentor who taught me everything about the world; Hiroshi Minami, the very person that I respect as an elder man and jazz man both in private and public; and Otomo Yoshihide who is the only fellow soldier in the jazz scene in this country. Duos with these musicians will be my lifetime projects until either of them run away from me or die. We may play the same music for good, too. This is kind of my tradition that was born inside me, and a form of expression about the phenomenon of making tradition myself. Thank you in advance. People use this sentence once a year normally, but I use it twice a year since I am a Gemini with blood type AB. Thank you in advance in this year, too.

■　Naruyoshi Kikuchi 3days 　■
Sep 14th (sun) 15th(mon) 16th (tue)
Open 19:30/Start 20:00
*advance ticket 4,500 yen /ticket on the day 5,000 yen P- cord 300-433

14th Duo with Yoshihide Otomo
Naruyoshi Kikuchi（Sax）Yoshihide Otomo（G）
15th Duo with Hiroshi Minami
Naruyoshi Kikuchi（Sax）Hiroshi Minami（P）
16th Duo with Yosuke Yamashita
Naruyoshi Kikuchi（Sax）Yosuke Yamashita（P）

**advance tickets are selling at Pit Inn Shinjuku
(only at the club, from 1PM) and at Ticket Pia. The advance ticket has an order number for priority entrance at the opening.