Masahiko Togashi

Masahiko Togashi — 富樫雅彦 (March 22, 1940 — Aug. 22, 2007) — was a Japanese jazz-drummer who played backup for saxophonist Sadao Watanabe during the late 1960s, graduating to the post-bop quartet Four Units with pianist Masahiko Sato for a 1969 album on Union Records. During the 1970s and ’80s, Togashi released numerous free/improve albums in solo and collaborative form on Denon Jazz, East Wind, Paddle Wheel, and numerous other labels.

Discography:

• Speed and Space (1969)
• We Now Create (1969)
• Canto of Aries (1971)
• Isolation (1971 • Masahiko Togashi & Mototeru Takagi)
• Song for Myself (1974)
• Spiritual Nature (1975)
• Story Of Wind Behind Left (1975)
• C.P.U. (Cosmic Pulsation Unity) (1975)
• Guild for Human Music (1976)
• Rings (1976)
• Essence (1977)
• Sketch (1977)
• Motion (1977)
• Twilight (1977 • Masahiko Togashi – Yuji Takahashi)
• Tidal Wave (1978)
• Voice From Yonder (1978)
• A Day of the Sun (1979 • Masahiko Togashi & Isao Suzuki)
• Session in Paris, Vol. 1: Song of Soil (1979)
• Kizashi 兆 (1980 • Togashi-Yamashita Duo)
• Session in Paris, Vol. 2: Colour of Dream (1980)
• Spiritual Moments (1981)
• Flame Up (1982 • Masahiko Togashi with Kazutoki Umezu and Yoriyuki Harada)
• Pulsation (1983 • Masahiko Togashi & Masayuki Takayanagi)
• Breath (1984 • Hozan Yamamoto, Masahiko Togashi & Yosuke Yamashita)
• Bura-Bura (1986)
• Scene (1987)
• Senza tempo (1990 • Masahiko Togashi / Haruna Miyake / Yuji Takahashi / Jean-François Jenny-Clark)