Takeshi Inomata

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Takeshi Inomata ( Japanese 猪 俣 剛 , Inomata Takeshi ; born February 6, 1936 in Takarazuka , Hyōgo Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz and fusion musician ( drums ) and band leader . He is considered "one of the pioneers of modern jazz drums in Japan."

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Takeshi Inomata grew up in a musical family and began performing in public at the age of 16. At the age of 20 he moved to Tokyo, where he was initially a member of the Six Josés , led by the double bass player Shin Watanabe; then he was one of the West Liners (Jazz Message from Tokyo) directed by tenor saxophonist Kōnosuke Saijō . He also played in the Tokyo jazz scene a. a. with Akira Watanabe & His Embers Five , also with Tatsuro Watanabe and Hidehiko Matsumoto ; He was also a member of the All-Stars-Band, which was composed of the winners of the critics poll of the Japanese journal Swing Journal . In the following decade he worked a. a. with Toshiko Akiyoshi , Sadao Watanabe , Akira Miyazawa , Helen Merrill ( In Tokyo , 1963), Sonny Rollins , Tadayuki Harada , Morio Madeda , Hiroshi Suzuki and Shungo Sawada .

In the early 1960s he lived for a while in the United States, where he took lessons from Alan Dawson ; after returning to Japan, he founded a jazz educational institution called the Rhythm Clinic Center . At the end of 1967 he took with Hiroshi Suzuki , Kōnosuke Saijō, Norio Maeda , Tadanori Nakamure and Tatsurō Takimoto on his debut album Drum Shot .

From the early 1970s he increasingly worked with his own formations such as West Liners or Sound of Sound Limited , with whom he released a number of albums, starting with the LPs Jazz Rock in Stravinsky (1970) and Rock Joy in Drums (1971). In his band (1970) a. a. Shunzo Ohno (trumpet), Takao Uematsu (tenor saxophone), Toshiaki Yokota (flute), Ryo Kawasaki (guitar) and Jun Suzuki (bass); his West Liners (1971 album) included Tetsuo Fushimi (tp), Shigeo Suzuki (as) and Masaru Imada (p). From 1970 he continued to work with Helen Merrill ( Sing Beatles ), Hiroshi Matsumoto , Toshiaki Yokota & The Beat Generation, Mal Waldron ( Tokyo Bound , 1970), Hozan Yamamoto , Martha Miyake and Ichiro Masudo .

In 1975 he put together a big band dedicated to the music of Gene Krupa ( Drummer Man ); another big band project was dedicated to Duke Ellington ( Take the "A" Train , Toshiba, 1977). This was followed by an album with duets ( The Dialogue , with Shigeharu Mukai , Kōnosuke Saijō, Toshiaki Yokota , Ichiro Masuda , Shoji Yokouchi , Yasuo Arakawa ); followed by the duo album Blue Heaven (1978, with Akira Sakata ).

From the 1980s, he was still working with pianist Naoki Nishi , with whom he an album in Los Angeles in 1981 Harold Land grossed (Dear Harold My Friend) . He celebrated his fortieth stage anniversary in 1991 with an all-star big band (The 40th Anniversary Live) . Together with Norio Maeda and Yasuo Arakawa he founded the collaborative trio We 3 , which had an excellent reputation in the Japanese scene and which also recorded with Dolly Baker . Since 1995 he has also played with Maeda in a trio with Sadanori Nakamure . In the field of jazz he was involved in 81 recording sessions between 1956 and 1982.

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  1. ↑ Kazunori Sugiyama, Takeshi Inomata . The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2002
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 10, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Inomata, Takeshi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 猪 俣 剛 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz and fusion musician (drums)
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Takarazuka , Hyogo Prefecture