Kiyoshi Kitagawa

Kiyoshi Kitagawa performing at the 2018 Oslo Jazzfestival

Kiyoshi Kitagawa (北川 潔) (born December 5, 1958 in Osaka) is a Japanese-American jazz double-bassist.

Kitagawa first played bass guitar, and was in a rock band as a high schooler. He switched to double bass while a student at Kansei Gakuin Daigaku, and played in the 1980s with Sadayasu Fuji and Takashi Furuya. Late in the 1980s he immigrated to the United States, where lived in New York City and played with Kenny Barron, Andy Bey, Jon Faddis, Kenny Garrett, Harper Brothers, Jimmy Heath, Susannah McCorkle, Makoto Ozone, Ben Riley, and Terrell Stafford in the late 1980s and 1990s. He worked with Barron again several times in the 2000s, as well as with Brian Blade and Danny Grissett, and worked in the 2010s with Regina Carter and Charles McPherson.

References

• Kazunori Sugiyama, "Kiyoshi Kitagawa". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld, 2004.