Kenji Hino

Bassplayer born in Tokyo, Kenji moved to New York City (US) when he was six years old with his family. Influenced by his father who is the most famous trumpeter in Japan and known among jazz scene all over the world, he started trumpet when he was 9 and enrolled at La Guardia High School of Music & Art & Performing Arts at 15. He changed his instrument to bass guitar at the age of 17, when he started to learn from Jaco Pastorius.