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Tsuyoshi Yamamoto
Birth nameTsuyoshi Yamamoto (山本剛, Yamamoto Tsuyoshi)
Born (1948-03-23) 23 March 1948 (age 76)
Sado Island, Niigata, Japan
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Musician, composer
Instrument(s)Piano
Websitetsuyoshi-yamamoto.com

Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (山本剛, Yamamoto Tsuyoshi, born 23 March 1948) is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer.

Life and career

Yamamoto was largely self-taught as a pianist, although he did have piano lessons as a child.[1] He attended Nihon University.[1] As a student there, he played professionally, first as an accompanist to pop singer Micky Curtis; they toured Europe in 1967.[1] In 1974, he became house pianist at Misty, a Tokyo jazz club.[1] He also made his recording debut as leader that year.[1] He played major international festivals in the late 1970s.[1] He also "lived in New York for a year, when he performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Carmen McRae, Sam Jones, Billy Higgins, Elvin Jones, and Sonny Stitt, among others."[1]

Playing style

Commenting on Yamamoto's 2008 album What a Wonderful Trio!, Audiophile Audition noted that "Yamamoto seems to favor the very highest reaches of the treble keyboard with great gusto".[2]

Discography

An asterisk (*) after the year indicates that it is the year of release.

As leader/co-leader

Year recorded Title Label Notes
1974 Blues For Tee Three Blind Mice
1974 Midnight Sugar Three Blind Mice Trio, with Isao Fukui (bass), Tetsujiro Obara (drums)
1974* Misty Three Blind Mice
1974* Now's The Time Three Blind Mice TBM-29 Isao Suzuki & Sunao Wada With The Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio, George Otsuka Quintet
1974* Live at the Misty Three Blind Mice Trio
1974* Life East Wind Trio, with Sam Jones (bass), Billy Higgins (drums)
1974* The In Crowd Three Blind Mice TBM-52
1975* Night And Day Three Blind Mice Koji Moriyama With The Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio
1975* Sunny Frasco Minami With Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio
1978* Blues to East Philips Trio, with Tsutomo Okada (bass), Hiroshi Murakami (drums)
1978 Midnight Sun Three Blind Mice Trio, with Tsutomo Okada (bass), Keiji Kishida (drums)
1980* P.S. I Love You Toshiba EMI With Seiichi Nakamura (tenor sax), Jim McNeely (synthesizer), Shinobu Ito (guitar), Teruo Nakamura (bass), Art Gore (drums), Chuggy Carter and Nobu Urushiyama (percussion)
1981* Zephyr Concord With Bob Maize, Jeff Hamilton, Jeff Clayton
1985* Another Holiday Warner Bros.
1999 Speak Low Venus Trio, with Tsutomu Okada (bass), Yoshitaka Uematsu (drums)
2001* Autumn in Seattle First Impression Music Trio, with Ken Kaneko (bass), Toshio Osumi (drums)
2008 What a Wonderful Trio! First Impression Music Trio, with Hiroshi Kagawa (bass), Toshio Osumi (drums)
2013 Gentle Blues Venus Trio, with Hiroshi Kagawa (bass), Toshio Osumi (drums)
2013 What a Wonderful World Venus Trio, with Hiroshi Kagawa (bass), Toshio Osumi (drums)

As sideman

Year recorded Leader Title Label
1977* Yoshio Otomo Moon Ray Three Blind Mice

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Sugiyama, Kazunori, Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi, Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press, retrieved 31 January 2015
  2. ^ Henry, John (14 March 2009) "Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio – What a Wonderful Trio! – First Impression Music DXD" Archived 2015-01-31 at the Wayback Machine. Audiophile Audition.
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