# Kosuke Mine

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{{Short description|Japanese jazz saxophonist (born 1944)}}
'''Kosuke Mine''' (峰厚介) (born Kenji Wakabayashi, February 6, 1944, Tokyo) is a Japanese [jazz](/source/jazz) saxophonist.

Mine played clarinet as a youth before switching to saxophone as a teenager. He began recording as a leader around 1970, and worked during this time with [Masabumi Kikuchi](/source/Masabumi_Kikuchi), [Joe Henderson](/source/Joe_Henderson), and [Mal Waldron](/source/Mal_Waldron). He moved to New York City in 1973, but came back to Japan in 1975, and subsequently became a member of the [fusion](/source/jazz_fusion) group [Native Son](/source/Native_Son_(band)). He has also worked with [Nobuyoshi Ino](/source/Nobuyoshi_Ino), [Sadao Watanabe](/source/Sadao_Watanabe_(musician)), and [Terumasa Hino](/source/Terumasa_Hino).

==Discography==
* ''First'' ([Philips](/source/Philips_Records), 1970)
* ''Mine'' ([Three Blind Mice](/source/Three_Blind_Mice_Records), 1970)
* ''2nd Album'' (Three Blind Mice, 1971)
* ''Yellow Carcass in the Blue'' with [Kimiko Kasai](/source/Kimiko_Kasai) (Three Blind Mice, 1971)
* ''Daguri'' ([JVC Victor](/source/JVC_Victor), 1973)
* ''Out of Chaos'' ([East Wind](/source/East_Wind_Records), 1974)
* ''Sunshower'' (East Wind, 1976)
* ''Solid'' (East Wind, 1976)
* ''Major to Minor'' ([Verve](/source/Verve_Records), 1993)
* ''Bamboo Grove'' (Days of Delight, 2019)

==References==
*Kazunori Sugiyama, "Kosuke Mine". ''[The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz](/source/The_New_Grove)''. 2nd edition, ed. [Barry Kernfeld](/source/Barry_Kernfeld).

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Category:Japanese jazz saxophonists
Category:Japanese jazz bandleaders
Category:Musicians from Tokyo
Category:1944 births
Category:Living people
Category:21st-century Japanese saxophonists

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