Hidehiko Matsumoto
Hidehiko "Sleepy" Matsumoto (松本英彦) (October 12, 1926, Okayama Prefecture – February 29, 2000, Tokyo) was a Japanese jazz saxophonist and bandleader.
Born in Okayama Prefecture and raised in Fuchū, Hiroshima, Matsumoto played bebop in Japan in the late 1940s with the group CB Nine, then joined The Six Josés and The Big Four, a group which included George Kawaguchi, Hachidai Nakamura, and Mitsuru On…