Naruyoshi Kikuchi

菊地成孔

Naruyoshi Kikuchi is a saxophone player, composer, songwriter, critic, journalist, university lecturer, and music producer from Japan. In regards to his influences, Kikuchi takes a lot of inspiration from Miles Davis and Jean-Luc Godard, calling himself a "graduate from the Miles Course in the Godard Department." and while this particular duo of influences consisting of one the most revolutionary Jazz players of all time and a iconoclastic figure from the french new wave movement helps in the understanding of his body of work, it's not enough to explain the versatility that Kikuchi has shown o…