Hideo Yamaki

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Hideo Yamaki ( Japanese 山 木 秀 夫 , Yamaki Hideo ; born December 22, 1952 ) is a Japanese jazz musician ( drums ).

Hideo Yamaki met the pianist Hideo Ichikawa in 1974 and moved to Tokyo, where he has been active in the Japanese jazz scene ever since, initially in the trio of Hideo Ichikawa, with whom he made his first recordings in 1976. In 1978 he presented the album Love for Sale (Audio Lab) with Toshiyuki Sekine and Osamu Kawakami . In the 1970s and 80s he also played with Mikio Masuda , Osamu Kawakami, Kazumasa Akiyama , Shigeharu Mukai , Yasuaki Shimizu , Eri Ohno , Masahiko Satoh , Yuji Toriyama , Akira Inoue , Toshinori Kondō , Naoki Nishi , Seigen Ono , Nobuyoshi Ino , Yoshiaki Miyanoue , Isoo Fukui , Satoru Shionoya and Kazumi Watanabe , also in the formation UMA ( Ubiquitous Musicians Association ) with Bill Laswell , Genji Sawai and Hoppy Kamiyama .

In the 90s and 2000s he played with Takashi Ohi , Yohichi Murata , Tomohito Aoki , Jun Miyake and Kyomi Otaka . In 2003 he released the albums There He Goes , Q (Shimizu) and Q (Zizo) under his own name . With Bill Laswell and Tatsuya Nakamura he released the album Bass & Drums in 2011 (P-Vine 2011); with Laswell and Dave Douglas he recorded the album The Drawing Center in New York in 2016 . In the field of jazz, he was involved in 58 recording sessions between 1976 and 2016.

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  1. Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 1, 2017)