Takashi Furuya
Takashi Furuya ( Japanese 古屋 隆 , Furuya Takashi ; born February 13, 1936 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz musician ( alto and tenor saxophone , also flute , vocals ).
Live and act
Takashi Furuya first played the violin and clarinet before switching to the saxophone as a teenager. He appeared in the clubs of the American military bases in the 1950s and from 1959 led his own formations such as Takashi Furuya and the Freshmen, The Concord, Reunion, The Neighborhood Big Band and Neo Sax Band . The first recordings were made in 1959 with the Modern Jazz All Stars (album Modern Jazz Composer's Corner ). He also accompanied American musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie , Mal Waldron , Ella Fitzgerald and Phil Woods on tours in Japan . He presented several albums under his own name from the early 1960s. In the course of his career he also worked with Masabumi Kikuchi / Gil Evans , Naosuke Miyamoto ( Step 1973), Takeshi Inomata , Makoto Ozone , Fumio Karashima , Kiyoshi Kitagawa and Rikiya Higashihara . In the field of jazz, Tom Lord lists him in 12 recording sessions between 1959 and 1986.
Furuya worked as a music teacher at the NHK Cultural Center and ran a school for jazz singing . He was also active as a film composer in the mid-1960s.
Discographic notes
- Takashi Furuya with The Freshmen: Fanky Drivin ' (Teichiku 1961), with Kaoru Inami , Yoshiaki Otuka , Hirokazu Okumura , Tom Naohara
- Takashi Furuya with the Yoshiaki Otsuka Trio + 1: Solitude (Thre Blind Mice, 1975), with Yoshiaki Ohtsuka , Kazuhiko Takeda , Tadao Kaneko , Mamoru Hamazaki
- Body and Soul (Union, 1983), with Fumio Karashima , Ikuo Sakurai , Motohiko Hino
- Touch of Your Lips (1985), with Sadayasu Fujii , Zensho Ohtsuka , Yutaka Terai , Ikuo Sakurai, Motohiko Hino
- Here I Am (1986), et al. a. with Fumio Karashima
Lexical entry
- Kazunori Sugiyama, Furuya, Takashi . In: Barry Kernfeld (Ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Oxford 2002.
Web links
- Takashi Furuya at Discogs (English)
- Takashi Furuya at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 18, 2017)
- ↑ Takashi Furuya in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Furuya, Takashi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 古屋 隆 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo prefecture |