Shota Koyama

Shōta Koyama ( Japanese 小山彰大 , Koyama Shōta ; born October 25, 1947 in Hokkaido ) is a Japanese jazz musician (drums).

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Koyoma is self-taught as a drummer and gained his first experience as a jazz musician in the student club at Waseda University in Tokyo; During this time he took private lessons in jazz drumming. After completing his bachelor's degree in literature in 1974, he played in the trio of Aki Takase and Fumio Itabashi as well as with Yoshio Ikeda , then worked from the mid-1970s for Yōsuke Yamashita , with the Jam Rice Sextet (with Akira Sakata , Toshinori Kondō , Gerald Ohshita and Hideaki Mochizuki) First recordings were made in 1976. In the following years he played in Yamashita's trio, with which he made a guest appearance in Berlin in 1977, and with Akira Sakata, Tomoki Takahashi , Katsuo Kuninaka , Keizo Inoue , Fumio Itabashi, Kōichi Matsukaze , Masahiko Togashi , Tamani Koyake , Toshisue Shimizu , in the 1990s - and in the 2000s with Hiroshi Itaya , in the Aki Takase Septet ( Oriental Express , Enja 1997), Takashi Amano , Tetsu Saitō and Koriko Kojima . In the field of jazz, he was involved in 38 recording sessions between 1976 and 2011, most recently with Hideki Tachibana . As a musician, he made an appearance in the film In the Land of the Peach Blossom (1992, directed by Stan Lai ).

Grove Music Online - The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz . 2nd edition, 2002, ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0 .