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Growin' (Album), Natsu no Santa Claus (夏のアサンタクロース, 夏のサンタクロース, Natsu no Santakurosu) composed by Masato Honda:
Masato Honda, EWI
Keiji Matsumoto, Keyboards
Jun Kajiwara, Electric Guitar
Tomohito Aoki, Electric Bass Guitar
Hiroyuki Noritake, Drums, Percussion
Masato Honda (本田 雅人, Honda Masato), is a Japanese saxophone player, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. Born in Nakamura City, Kochi Prefecture (now Shimanto City), he graduated from Kunitachi College of Music. He is most well known for being a member of the band T-Square and appearing on Cowboy Bebop's soundtrack with The Seatbelts. Early life and career. Masato Honda started playing the saxophone in the 3rd grade under the influence of his father, after trying out both the flute and clarinet. During his high school years at the Kochi Prefectural Nakamura High School he participated in a pop band where he played guitar and sang. Afterwards, he went to Kunitachi College of Music, where he studied classical saxophone until he won the 14th Yamano Big Band Jazz Contest in 1983. Afterwards, he turned his focus to jazz and fusion styles. In 1985, he graduated from Kunitachi College of Music at the top of his class and joined Nobuo Hara's Sharps and Flats. Afterwards, he worked as a session musician, notably working with Toshiki Kadomatsu, Hiroshi Sato, and the Katsumi Horii Project, and formed the group WITNESS with Masaharu Ishikawa and Jun Kajiwara. T-Square. The 1990 live, T-Square Live (featuring F1 Grand Prix Theme) was Honda's first time working with T-Square as a session musician. The then-current saxophonist Takeshi Itoh stepped down from the group to pursue a solo career soon after. Honda debuted as an official member in T-Square Live – "Farewell & Welcome" in 1991, which was Itoh's official send-off from the group. Prior to this, Honda began recording his first studio album with T-Square in January 1991, New-S, where he composed the opening track, Megalith. It would release on March 21 that same year. Also in 1991, the group recorded the album Refreshest, the first album under the name "T-Square and Friends". It was composedly mainly of arrangements of previous songs, one of which was a version of It's Magic. Following the death of racing legend Ayrton Senna in 1994, T-Square released SOLITUDE, also as T-Square and Friends. Overseas musicians such as David Liebman, Michael Brecker, and Mike Stern joined T-Square and Friends for the album Miss you in New York in 1995. After the album Blue in Red, Honda left T-Square for unknown reasons and pursued a solo career. He participated before leaving T-Square in Farewell & Welcome Live 1998, which was recorded on April 28, 1998 and released on VHS the following July, and he also participated after leaving T-Square in Yaon de Asobu – 20th Anniversary Special. Berklee alum Takahiro Miyazaki replaced him starting with the album Gravity, however Honda still contributed to it, playing on the song Japanese Soul Brothers. T-Square's 2022 album Wish marked his first activity with the band since he contributed a composition in their 2001 album Brasil, and T-Square's 2022 year-end special live shows saw his return to the band's stage for the first time since he guest performed in 2000. T-Square (stylized in all caps, formerly known as The Square) is a Japanese jazz fusion band formed in 1976. They became famous in the late 1970s and early 1980s along with other Japanese jazz bands. They are known for songs such as "Truth", "Japanese Soul Brothers", "Takarajima", and "Omens of Love", among others. "Truth" was used as the theme for Fuji Television's Formula One coverage from 1987 to 1998 and starting in 2012. Special arrangements of this song were used as the theme for Japan's F1 2001 to 2006. The band has won 12 Japan Gold Disc Awards. In the 1980s, S.P.O.R.T.S., Truth, Yes, No, and their F-1 Grand Prix World compilation album won Gold Discs in the "Jazz-Fusion" category. In the 1990s, Natural, Impressive, Human, Natsu no Wakusei, B.C. A.D. and Gravity all won Gold Discs. After more than two decades without Gold Discs, the band won back-to-back awards for 2021's Fly! Fly! Fly! and 2022's Wish as part of the "Instrumental Album of the Year" category. A wind controller, sometimes referred to as a wind synthesizer, is an electronic wind instrument. It is usually a MIDI controller associated with one or more music synthesizers. EWI (from electronic wind instrument, /ˈiːwi/ EE-wee, digital wind instrument) is a type of wind controller, an electronic musical instrument invented by Nyle Steiner. The EWI has been used by many artists across many different genres, and is notable for its association with jazz fusion, particularly in Japan with its frequent use by T-Square in many of their songs. Akai EWI 3030m Synth Module with Akai EWI 3020 Wind Controller.
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