Tiger Okoshi

{{short description|American jazz fusion trumpeter (born 1950)}}

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| name = Tiger Okoshi

| image = Tiger Okoshi.jpg

| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist

| birth_name = Toru Okoshi

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|3|21}}

| birth_place = Ashiya, Hyōgo, Japan

| genre = Jazz, jazz fusion

| occupation = Musician

| instrument = Trumpet

| years_active = 1972–present

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Toru "Tiger" Okoshi (born March 21, 1950){{cite book|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=1858}} is an American jazz fusion trumpeter born in Ashiya, Japan.

After studying at Kwansei Gakuin University, Okoshi moved to the U.S. in 1972. In 1975 he completed studies at the Berklee College of Music. Okoshi collaborated in the 1970s with Gary Burton, and played with the Mike Gibbs Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in 1974. Following this he toured with Buddy Rich. In the early 1990s, he played in George Russell's Living Time Orchestra and recorded with Bob Moses. In the early 2000s he recorded several songs on the album Orpheus Again by Bruce Arnold.{{cite web| last1 = Yanow | first1 = Scott |title = Tiger Okoshi|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/tiger-okoshi-mn0000594370/biography| website = AllMusic |access-date = 28 March 2017}}

Discography

===As leader===

=As sideman=

With Bruce Arnold

With Gary Burton

With Lorraine Desmarais

  • Live au Club Soda (2007){{cite web|title=Lorraine Demarais {{!}} Live au Club Soda |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-au-club-soda-mw0000798122 |website=AllMusic|access-date=12 November 2018}}

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