Kiyoshi Koyama

Kiyoshi Koyama ( Jap. 児山紀芳 , * 12 February 1936 in Sakai , † 3. February 2019 in Kashiwa ) was a Japanese music journalist and jazz - producer .

Live and act

Kiyoshi Koyama worked as a music journalist and editor in the 1960s and 1970s; to report on the American free jazz and avant-garde scene, he traveled frequently to New York, for example in the summer of 1969 when he could see Ornette Coleman in his loft at rehearsals and in everyday life. During his career, Koyama conducted a number of interviews with leading musicians in American jazz, such as John Coltrane , Miles Davis and Albert Ayler , as well as with Japanese jazz greats such as Sadao Watanabe and Toshiko Akiyoshi . Koyama also wrote the chapter on Jazz in Japan for The Oxford Companion to Jazz, edited by Bill Kirchner . From 1967 to 1981 and from 1990 to 1993 he was editor of the Swing Journal ; since the 1980s he has been producing historical recordings. He produced box sets with music by Roland "Rahsaan" Kirk , Clifford Brown / Max Roach , Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington , and he was the co-producer of the re-release of historical recordings by Keynote Records .

Web links

Kiyoshi Koyama at Allmusic (English)
Kiyoshi Koyama at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Giovanni Russonello: Kiyoshi Koyama, Prominent Japanese Jazz Journalist, Dies at 82. The New York Times , February 17, 2019, accessed February 18, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Koyama, Kiyoshi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese journalist and jazz producer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 12, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sakai
DATE OF DEATH	3rd February 2019
Place of death	Kashiwa

[obit-1] Giovanni Russonello: Kiyoshi Koyama, Prominent Japanese Jazz Journalist, Dies at 82. The New York Times , February 17, 2019, accessed February 18, 2019 .