NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Masabumi Kikuchi on 7 May 2021. Masabumi Kikuchi has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 22 episodes and was first played on 5 May 2014.

Masabumi Kikuchi (菊地 雅章, Kikuchi Masabumi, 19 October 1939 – 6 July 2015) was 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, Billy Harper, and Hannibal Peterson.

Masabumi Kikuchi also known as ‘Poo’ started the piano lessons and…