Masao Yagi
Masao Yagi ( Japanese八 木 正 生, Yagi Masao , born November 14, 1932 in Tokyo , † March 4, 1991 ) was a Japanese jazz pianist , arranger and film composer .
Act
Masao Yagi worked in the Tokyo jazz scene from the 1950s; In 1957 the first recordings were made ( Jazz Message from Tokyo , with Sadao Watanabe , Tatsurō Takimoto , Kanji Harada ). In 1958 he played in George Kawaguchi's Big Four Plus One . In mid-1960 he recorded the first LP with Monk compositions outside the United States with his album Plays Thelonious Monk (King Records) . Sadao Watanabe, Akira Nakano , Masanaga Harada and Sadakazu Tabata were involved in the album . The success of the record soon made Monk's compositions popular in Japan; In return, Monk himself recorded a Japanese composition called "Kōji No Tsuki" ( Moon over the Desolate Castle ).
In the 1960s, Yagi a. a. with Charlie Mariano and Hidehiko Matsumoto ( Jazz Inter-session , 1964) and Helen Merrill ; He was also a member (with Masanaga Harada and Akira Miyazawa, among others ) of the Swing Journal All Stars '67 . In the following decades he worked a. a. with Nobuo Hara , Yōsuke Yamashita , Hiroshi Ozaki , Harumi Kaneko and Yoshiko Goto . Furthermore, from the early 1960s he worked as a film composer for feature films and TV series such as Ashita no Joe (1968-73), King Ping Meh - Chinese love dance (1969, directed by Kôji Wakamatsu ), Tokugawa II - The House of Joy of Nagasaki ( 1969), Tokugawa III - In the intoxication of the senses , (1969, directed by Teruo Ishii ) or Giants of the Past (1977).
The discographer Tom Lord lists his participation in jazz from 1957 to 1985 with 26 recording sessions.
Discographic notes
- Modern Jazz Blue Mood (Columbia, 1965), with Norihiko Kitazato , Akira Miyazawa, Toru Konishi , George Ōtsuka
- Inga (King, 1978), with Shin Kazuhara , Shigeo Suzuki , Akira Miyazawa, Kiyoshi Sugimoto , Kunimitsu Inaba , Michio Nagoaka , Hideo Yamaki , Osamu Nakajima
Lexical entry
- Yozo Iwanami, Kazunori Sugiyama. Masao Yagi. In: Barry Kernfeld (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd Edition. Grove's Dictionaries, New York 2002, ISBN 1-56159-284-6 .
Web links
- Masao Yagi at Discogs (English)
- Masao Yagi at Allmusic (English)
- Masao Yagi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Robin DG Kelley: Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original . Free Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-684-83190-9 , p. 338.
- ^ William Minor: Jazz Journeys to Japan: The Heart Within. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2004, ISBN 0-472-11345-3 .
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 22, 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yagi, Masao |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4th 1991 |