Toku (styled TOKU ) is a Japanese jazz musician from Niigata Prefecture , Japan.
23-541: [REDACTED] Look up とく in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Toku may refer to: People [ edit ] Name Toku (musician) (born 1973), Japanese jazz musician Toku Hime (1565–1615), Japanese princess during the Sengoku and Edo periods Toku Nishio ( 西尾 徳 , 1939–2005) , Japanese actor and voice actor Shō Toku ( 尚 徳 , 1441–1469) ,
46-554: A campus festival, a jazz drummer heard Toku play Miles Davis' version of If I Were a Bell . He was later invited to a jam session with the drummer where he became inspired to pursue jazz. In his junior year of college, he moved to the United States to learn English at Tokyo International University in Oregon . There, Toku played in a band with his roommate, a jazz pianist. Upon graduating from college, Toku started singing at
69-566: A ducal hunt leader known as a Flügelmeister blew the Flügelhorn , a large semicircular brass or silver valveless horn, to direct the wings of the hunt. Military use dates from the Seven Years' War , where this instrument was employed as a predecessor of the bugle. The flugelhorn is generally pitched in B♭, like most trumpets and cornets . It usually has three piston valves and employs
92-427: A fourth valve that lowers the pitch by a perfect fourth (similar to the fourth valve on some euphoniums , tubas , and piccolo trumpets , or the trigger on trombones ). This adds a useful low range that, coupled with the flugelhorn's dark sound, extends the instrument's abilities. Players can also use the fourth valve in place of the first and third valve combination (which is somewhat sharp). A compact version of
115-755: A genre of Japanese live action film or television series featuring kaiju, superheroes or mecha Toku Daihatsu-class landing craft , was a type of landing craft Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Toku . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Toku (software) , software-as-a-service Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toku&oldid=1193997500 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Japanese-language surnames Japanese unisex given names Hidden categories: Articles containing Japanese-language text Short description
138-507: A quintet, adding keyboardist Shinji Akita and drummer Hidenobu "Kalta" Otsuki. TKY disbanded by the end of 2005. Toku enjoys photography in his free time. Flugelhorn Plucked The flugelhorn ( / ˈ f l uː ɡ əl h ɔːr n / ), also spelled fluegelhorn , flugel horn , or flügelhorn , is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet , but has a wider, more conical bore . Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B♭, though some are in C. It
161-715: A trumpet and a French horn , whereas the cornet's sound is halfway between a trumpet and a flugelhorn. The flugelhorn is as agile as the cornet but more difficult to control in the high register (from approximately written G 5 ), where in general it locks onto notes less easily. The flugelhorn is a standard member of the British-style brass band , and it is also used frequently in jazz . It also appears occasionally in orchestral and concert band music. Famous orchestral works with flugelhorn include Igor Stravinsky 's Threni , Ralph Vaughan Williams 's Ninth Symphony , and Michael Tippett 's third symphony. The flugelhorn
184-648: Is a type of valved bugle , developed in Germany in the early 19th century from a traditional English valveless bugle. The first version of a valved bugle was sold by Heinrich Stölzel in Berlin in 1828. The valved bugle provided Adolphe Sax (creator of the saxophone ) with the inspiration for his B♭ soprano (contralto) saxhorns , on which the modern-day flugelhorn is modelled. The German word Flügel means wing or flank in English. In early 18th century Germany,
207-550: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Toku (musician) In addition to being one of the few professional jazz vocalists and flugelhorn players in Japan, he is known for promoting jazz in Japan and bringing elements of the genre into J-pop through collaborations with other artists. He has worked with clammbon , Miki Imai , Maki Oguro , Yuji Ohno , Mariko Takahashi , Ken Hirai , DOUBLE , m-flo , and Exile . Toku
230-696: Is sometimes substituted for the post horn in Mahler's Third Symphony , and for the soprano Roman buccine in Ottorino Respighi 's Pines of Rome . In HK Gruber 's trumpet concerto Busking (2007) the soloist is directed to play a flugelhorn in the slow middle movement. The flugelhorn figured prominently in many of Burt Bacharach 's 1960s pop song arrangements. It is featured in a solo role in Bert Kaempfert 's 1962 recording of "That Happy Feeling". Flugelhorns have occasionally been used as
253-546: Is the eighth single by Do As Infinity Place [ edit ] Toku, Estonia , a village in Antsla Parish, Võru County, Estonia Tokū, Tonga , an uninhabited volcanic island in Tonga Other [ edit ] Toku (company) , is a cloud communications company Toku (TV network) , an American anime television network TokuDB , is an open-source, high-performance storage engine Tokusatsu ,
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#1732776463840276-457: The 1980 Winter Olympics , for which he wrote the theme " Give It All You Got ", referred to the flugelhorn as "the right baseball glove". Pop flugelhorn players include Probyn Gregory ( Brian Wilson Band), Ronnie Wilson of The Gap Band , Rick Braun , Mic Gillette , Jeff Oster , Zach Condon of the band Beirut , Scott Spillane of the band Neutral Milk Hotel , Terry Kirkman of the band The Association , Annie Chappell and Rashawn Ross of
299-623: The E♭ trumpet or cornet. The 1996 film Brassed Off features a flugelhorn performance of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez , Adagio, as a key moment. The solo is played by Paul Hughes. Joe Bishop , as a member of the Woody Herman band in 1936, was one of the earliest jazz musicians to use the flugelhorn. Shorty Rogers and Kenny Baker began playing it in the early fifties, and Clark Terry used it in Duke Ellington 's orchestra in
322-472: The Japanese edition of her album Memphis Blues . He also was a musician during the Japanese leg of her Memphis Blues Tour . In 2004, at a summer festival Toku, Kenji Hino , and Yosuke Onuma decided to combine their talents into a single musical group. The idea had originated when the three founding members had gone to New York previously. They performed at Fuji Rock 2004 and afterwards began to work as
345-478: The alto or low soprano voice in a drum and bugle corps . Another use of the flugelhorn is found in the Dutch and Belgian " Fanfareorkesten " or fanfare orchestras . In these orchestras the flugelhorns, often between 10 and 20 in number, have a significant role, forming the base of the orchestra. They are pitched in B♭, with sporadically an E♭ soloist. Due to poor intonation, these E♭ flugelhorns are mostly replaced by
368-826: The jazz club BODY & SOUL. There, he was scouted by Rob Crocker, a DJ from the Tokyo radio station (INTER-FM), who heard him play Miles Davis' version of If I Were a Bell . This eventually led to him signing with Sony Music Records Inc. He released his first album, "Everything She Said"(produced by Rob Crocker)on January 21, 2000. In August, he played at Blue Note Tokyo, and in November had his first overseas performance in Konkuk University 's New Millennium Hall in Seoul , South Korea . The following year, he release his second album, "Bewitching." In 2002, Toku's fame spread through
391-739: The mid-1950s. Chet Baker recorded several albums on the instrument in the 1950s and 1960s. Miles Davis further popularized the instrument in jazz on the albums Miles Ahead and Sketches of Spain , (both arranged by Gil Evans ) though he did not use it much on later projects. Other prominent flugelhorn players include Donald Byrd , Freddy Buzon , Freddie Hubbard , Tom Browne , Lee Morgan , Bill Dixon , Wilbur Harden , Art Farmer , Roy Hargrove , Randy Brecker , Hugh Masekela , Feya Faku , Tony Guerrero , Gary Lord, Jimmy Owens , Maynard Ferguson , Terumasa Hino , Woody Shaw , Bobby Shew , Guido Basso , Kenny Wheeler , Tom Harrell , Bill Coleman , Thad Jones , Arturo Sandoval , Lee Loughnane of
414-469: The rock band Chicago , Roddy Lorimer of the Kick Horns , Mike Metheny , Harry Beckett , Till Brönner and Ack van Rooyen . Most jazz flugelhorn players use the instrument as an auxiliary to the trumpet, but in the 1970s Chuck Mangione gave up playing the trumpet and concentrated on the flugelhorn alone, notably on his jazz-pop hit song " Feels So Good ". Mangione, in an interview on ABC during
437-545: The rotary valve flugelhorn is the oval shaped kuhlohorn in B♭. It was developed for the German Protestant trombone choirs. A pair of bass flugelhorns in C, called fiscorns , are played in the Catalan cobla bands that provide music for sardana dancers. The tone is fatter and usually regarded as more mellow and dark than the trumpet or cornet. The sound of the flugelhorn has been described as halfway between
460-409: The same fingering system as other brass instruments, although four-valve versions and rotary-valve versions also exist. It can therefore be played by trumpet and cornet players, although it has different playing characteristics. The flugelhorn's mouthpiece is more deeply conical than either trumpet or cornet mouthpieces, but not as conical as a French horn mouthpiece. Some modern flugelhorns feature
483-611: The song "You are so beautiful," which he sang for a Hitachi TV commercial as well as his first single "Do-Re-Mi" for Honda's Odyssey ad campaign. He has released twelve albums and performed all over the world, including at the Jazzy Shanghai Festival, Paris Jazz Festival, Hong Kong International Jazz Festival, and the Jakarta International JAVA JAZZ Festival. In 2011, Toku recorded with American singer songwriter Cyndi Lauper for
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#1732776463840506-478: Was born on February 20, 1973, in Niigata Prefecture . Under his father's influence, Toku grew up enjoying all kinds of music. During junior high school Toku began to learn to play the cornet , and in the following years he picked up the trumpet and flugel horn as well. In high school, Toku was in a cover band, playing mainly rock and pop songs, which he continued to be a part of into college. At
529-495: Was the son of Shō Taikyū and last king of the First Shō Dynasty Surname Emmanuel Toku (born 2000), Ghanaian professional footballer Indiya Toku (born 1994), Indian cricketer Sanpo Toku ( 徳 三宝 , 1887–1945) , Japanese judoka Music [ edit ] 7-Toku , is the second album by Space Streakings Toku Do , is an album by guitarist Larry Coryell Tōku Made ,
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