Masahiro Sayama

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Masahiro Sayama ( Japanese 佐 山 雅 弘 , Sayama Masahiro ; born November 26, 1953 in Amagasaki , Hyōgo Prefecture ; † November 14, 2018 ) was a Japanese jazz musician (piano, keyboards) who also worked as a film composer .

Live and act

Masahiro Sayama started playing the piano as a child; his interest in it arose after watching the movie The Glenn Miller Story . He studied music at the Kunitachi College of Music and was active in the Japanese jazz scene from the early 1970s; first recordings were made in 1978 with Junko Mine and Hidehiko Matsumoto ( Junko and Sleepy - I Wish You Love ). In the following years he played a. a. with Toshiyuki Honda , Katsuo Kuninaka , Atsumasa Nakabayashi , Shigeharu Mukai , Tatsuya Satō , in the 1990s with Jun Miyake and in Ukio Uchiyama's Music Magic Orchestra . From the 1980s onwards, he presented several albums under his own name, initially Sbatotto (Sound Design 1984), with Junji Yamagishi , Hiroshi Yoshino , Rommy Kinoshita , Makoto Saitō , Shōta Koyama , Yoshikazu Harada . In addition to original compositions, the LP contained Sayama's standards such as “ There Will Never Be Another You ” and “ You Don't Know What Love Is ”; the album Play Me a Little Music (JVC) he recorded in 1985 with Yasushi Yoneki (double bass) or Gregg Lee (electric bass) and Shuichi Murakami (drums).

For the following decade, Sayama was a member of the Ponta Box formation , which also included Masatoshi Mizuno (bass) and Shuichi Murakami. In 1995 he performed with the trio at the Montreux Jazz Festival . In the field of jazz, Tom Lord lists him in 37 recording sessions between 1978 and 2000, most recently as a member of the big band of Tomohito Aoki ( Experience ). In the 2000s he played in the Trio M’s with Masatoshi Koi (bass) and Masahiko Osaka (drums). He also wrote and arranged music for the documentary Shômei kumagai gakkô (2004, directed by Makoto Wada ) and various video games.

Discographic notes

Web links

Lexical entry

  • Kazunori Sugiyama, Masahiro Sayama . The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 【訃 報】 ジ ャ ズ ピ ア ニ ス ト 佐 山 雅 弘 氏 の ご 逝去 に つ い て. kawasakijazz.jp, November 14, 2018 (jp).;
  2. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 6, 2017)
  3. ↑ Masahiro Sayama in the Internet Movie Database (English)Template: IMDb / Maintenance / "imported from" is missing
  4. ^ Music of the Final Fantasy Series , p. 110
personal data
SURNAME Sayama, Masahiro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 佐 山 雅 弘 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Amagasaki , Hyogo Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2018