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Masaya Yamaguchi (born July 18, 1970) is a guitarist and educator residing in Manhattan, New York City. Masaya grew up in Tokyo, Japan and decided to study in the U.S. at the age of 26. Masaya Yamaguchi became the first native Japanese to complete the master's program in Jazz Performance at the City College of New York (M.A. 1999) and the contributor to Down Beat magazine and Annual Review of Jazz Studies (which is peer reviewed and published by the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey).”
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According to his profile in Marquis Who's Who in America, Masaya Yamaguchi has been engaged in a wide range of activities, having been a musician and an educator who established his conceptualistic system to explore the imaginative formation of musical scales by The Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales.
His representative work “The Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales” is reviewed by Dr. John Kuzmich (senior columnist of Jazz Education Journal, International Association for Jazz Education) as "It's worth mentioning that this book comprehensively covers all theoretical possibilities in constructing scales……Take this Thesaurus Scales seriously, you will not be disappointed in the options available for jazz improvisation." “The Subsets of Limited Transposition” (which takes Olivier Messiaen's Modes of limited transposition and brings it up to now) and “Appendix: Scales for Jazz Improvisation” in “The Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales” are very helpful to organize musician’s mind and ear. “The Subsets of Limited Transposition” was introduced in “The Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales,” “Symmetrical Scales for Jazz Improvisation” and his academic article, “A Creative Approach to Multi-Tonic Changes: Beyond Coltrane's Harmonic Formula (Annual Review of Jazz Studies 12, 2002).” The concept of “The Subsets of Limited Transposition” has been updated by the most recent “Lexicon of Geometric Patterns for Jazz Improvisation” as “Systematized The Subsets of Limited Transposition Families.” Chapter VI of “Lexicon of Geometric Patterns for Jazz Improvisation” is also given to “Messiaen’s Modes for Jazz Improvisation”
Masaya Yamaguchi is also known as a scholar and researcher of the music of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. Dr. David Damsey is a co-author of John Coltrane Plays “Coltrane Changes” and a professor of music and coordinator of jazz studies at William Paterson University. Masaya Yamaguchi is one of the most important endorsers of Modartt’s Pianoteq and released an educational piano-roll recording entitled “Monk and Roll.”