Masabumi Kikuchi

Masabumi Kikuchi (菊地 雅章) is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer born in Tokyo, Japan, notable for working with a variety of well known jazz musicians such as Lionel Hampton, Sonny Rollins, Woody Herman, Mal Waldron, Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Miles Davis, Paul Motian, Billy Harper and Hannibal Peterson.

Select discography
As bandleader or solist
 * Melancholy Gil (Universal Records)
 * Slash Trio (3d Records)
 * Slash Trio, Vol. 2 (3d Records)
 * After Hours, Vol. 2 (Blue Note Records)
 * Dreamachine (Pioneer Records)
 * East Wind (East Wind Records)
 * Aaobb (3d Records)
 * Wishes/Kochi (Inner City Records)
 * Sunrise (ECM)

With Pee Wee Ellis
 * Blues Mission (Gramavision Records)

With Terumasa Hino
 * Acoustic Boogie (Blue Note Records)
 * Hino=Kikuchi Quintet (Columbia Records)
 * Moment: Alive at Blue Note Tokyo (EMI)

With Helen Merrill
 * You and the Night and the Music (Verve Records)

With Paul Motian With Takeshi Shibuya
 * Tethered Moon: Experiencing Tosca with Gary Peacock (Winter & Winter Records)
 * Tethered Moon: First Meeting with Gary Peacock (Winter & Winter Records)
 * 2000 + One (Winter & Winter, 1997)
 * Live at the Village Vanguard (Winter & Winter, 2006)
 * Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. II (Winter & Winter, 2006)
 * Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. III (Winter & Winter, 2006)
 * Tandem (Universal Records)

With Mal Waldron
 * Mal: Live 4 to 1 (Philips, 1971)