Sumiko Yoseyama

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Sumiko Yoseyama ( Japanese 与 世 山 澄 子 , Yoseyama Sumiko ; * around 1940) is a Japanese jazz singer .

Sumiko Yoseyama began her singing career with the pianist Yara Fumio, with whom she performed in clubs in the American troop bases. In 1983 she released her debut album Introducing (Union Jazz), on which she was accompanied by Kohsuke Mine (tenor saxophone), Yoshihiro Nakagawa (trumpet), Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (piano), Tsutomu Okada (bass) and Hiroshi Murakami (drums). In late 1983 she recorded her second album With Mal (Continental, also released under the title Sumiko Yoseyama Meets Mal Waldron ); Their backing band played Mal Waldron , Kunimitsu Inaba and Motohiko Hino as well as a string formation. Another album followed in 1985 ( Duo (East World), with Mal Waldon), on which they recorded standards such as " Nice Work If You Can Get It ", " You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to ", " I Didn ' t Know What Time It Was ”and“ What a Little Moonlight Can Do ”. Another album Interlude was released in 2005. She also appeared in the feature film Koishikute (2007, directed by Yuji Nakae ).

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  1. ↑ Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan , edited by Matthew Allen, Rumi Sakamoto., 2007. p. 207
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 19, 2017)
  3. ↑ Sumiko Yoseyama in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Yoseyama, Sumiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 与 世 山 澄 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1940