Kosuke Mine Quintet

Kosuke Mine Quintet was the group led by Japanese saxophonist Kosuke Mine, born Kenji Wakabayashi in Tokyo in 1944. The quintet recorded jazz in Tokyo in the early 1970s, with Fender Rhodes alongside saxophone and trombone. It is known for Mine, recorded in 1970, which was the first release on the Three Blind Mice label. Kosuke Mine began on clarinet before moving to saxophone as a teenager. On Mine he played alto and soprano saxophone with Takashi Imai on trombone, Hideo Ichikawa on Fender Rhodes, Takashi Mizuhashi on bass and Hiroshi Murakami on drums.