Hiroshi Tamura (jazz pianist)

Hiroshi Tamura ( Japanese田村博, Tamura Hiroshi , * around 1950) is a Japanese jazz musician (piano, composition).

Hiroshi Tamura played in the early 1970s in the quintet of the trombonist Hiroshi Fukumura , with whom the first recordings were made ( Morning Flight , 1973, with Shigeharu Mukai , Tsutomu Okada and Shinji Mori ). In the following years he worked a. a. with Seiichi Nakamura , Junko Mine / Hidehiko Matsumoto , ( I Wish You Love , 1978). He was also a member of the Tee & Company formation , for which he wrote the jazz suite Okuni of Izumo (1989). He recorded his debut album, a Cole Porter Tribute, in 1995 with bassist Keiichi Ishibashi and drummer Taketoshi Igarashi . Around 2007 he played an Ellington album ( Plays Ellington Tonk ) with Teiji Sasaki and Joe LaBarbera . In the field of jazz he was involved in eight recording sessions between 1973 and 2007, also with Hiroshi Murata (2002). In the 2010s he played in a trio with Masahiro Yamamoto and Todd Nicholson .

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