Occupation(s) Musician, composer Instruments Piano | Name Tsuyoshi Yamamoto | |
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Birth name Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (山本剛, Yamamoto Tsuyoshi) Albums Bass Club, Midnight Sugar, Life, What a Wonderful Trio! Similar People Isao Suzuki, Red Mitchell, Toots Thielemans | ||
Tsuyoshi yamamoto autumn in seatle
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (山本剛, Yamamoto Tsuyoshi, born 23 March 1948) is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer.
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- Tsuyoshi yamamoto autumn in seatle
- Tsuyoshi yamamoto trio misty
- Life and career
- Playing style
- Discography
- References
Tsuyoshi yamamoto trio misty
Life and career
Yamamoto was largely self-taught as a pianist, although he did have piano lessons as a child. He attended Nihon University. As a student there, he played professionally, first as an accompanist to pop singer Micky Curtis; they toured Europe in 1967. In 1974, he became house pianist at Misty, a Tokyo jazz club. He also made his recording debut as leader that year. He played major international festivals in the late 1970s. 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."
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".
Discography
An asterisk (*) after the year indicates that it is the year of release.