Kunihiko Sugano

Kunihiko Sugano is a Japanese jazz pianist from Tokyo. He began playing in a band while at university and was working on the Tokyo jazz scene by around 1960. He is known for a long run of trio and solo recordings from the 1970s, many of them issued by Audio Lab, the label run by his older brother, the audio critic Okihiko Sugano. Kunihiko Sugano formed a trio with bassist Isao Suzuki and drummer George Otsuka around 1960, worked with the clarinettist Tony Scott during his stay in Japan, and later played in the Hidehiko Matsumoto Quartet.