Collaboration album of two Japanese Jazz musicians - trumpeter Terumasa Hino and pianist Masabumi Kikuchi. The album received the Silver Award of the Japan Jazz Disc Awards.

"Black Orpheus" documents a 2012 solo recital, not only the last in his homeland but the last anywhere, by idiosyncratic Japanese improviser Masabumi Kikuchi, who died in 2015. One of the uncategorizable greats, Kikuchi occupied his own musical universe and in his final years was quietly and systematically severing his ties to jazz, drifting instead towards what he called "floating sound and harmonies", introspective and poetic improvisations.

Masabumi Kikuchi makes his ECM debut with "Sunrise". The album bursting with riveting spontaneity and free-form improvisation finds the well-versed musician joined by a star-studded lineup which includes double bassist Thomas Morgan and legendary drummer Paul Motian. The serene ten track work, comprised of mostly ballads, is executed flawlessly as each harmonic movement is handled with precision and clarity. The trio, all masters in the jazz world, deliver an album that is breathtaking.