[1] He worked with many diverse musicians, including Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Gary Peacock and Paul Motian, and collaborated with Gil Evans and Tōru Takemitsu.

Following the firebombing of Tokyo in 1945, his family moved out of the city and settled in the rural Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima prefecture, where his parents were born.

[4] He started a quintet with Terumasa Hino but soon after left for the US after winning a scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music.

[1] as Victor Modern Jazz Sextet Kochi (Ensemble with Al Foster, Anthony Jackson, Dave Liebman, James Mtume, Reggie Lucas, Steve Grossman and Terumasa Hino) AAOBB (All Night All right Off White Boogie Band)(with Conrad Adderley, Victor Jones, Aïyb Dieng, Kosuke Mine, Kelvyn Bell, Tomas Doncker, William "spaceman" Patterson) Tethered Moon (Trio with Paul Motian and Gary Peacock) Slash Trio (Trio with Masaaki Kikuchi and Tatsuya Yoshida) With Gil Evans With Terumasa Hino With Paul Motian With others In the late 1970s, Kikuchi lived in New York City and rented a loft apartment on W. 20th Street.

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