Tamami Koyake
Tamami Koyake ( Japanese 小 宅 珠 実 , Koyake Tamami ; born September 14, 1948 in Yokohama ) is a Japanese jazz musician ( flute ).
Koyake began playing the flute at the age of nine. She completed a classical degree at the Kunitachi Music Academy in Tokyo before turning to jazz. Since 1974 directed his own band. In 1978 the first recordings were made for her debut album Koyake First (Paddle Wheel). She had played it with Isao Suzuki , from whom the compositions and arrangements came, as well as with Shigeo Hirayama , Shinji Ohshima , Masayoshi Yoneda , Shuji Miyake and Takayuki Katō .
1979 she also worked in the group of Isao Suzuki; from 1982 to 1986 she also performed with the samba band Spick and Span . She also worked with Larry Coryell , Shigeharu Mukai and Hank Jones . During a stay in New York in 1991, the production First New York Session (Paddle Wheel) was created, in which Koyake played with Kenny Barron , Ron McClure and Mike Reznikoff . In the field of jazz, she lists Tom Lord in nine recording sessions between 1979 and 1992. In 2002 she presented the album High Fly (3D).
Discographic notes
- Someday - い ・ つ ・ か (Better Days, 1982), with Hiroshi Yoshino , Ryōjirō Furusawa , Shota Koyama , Fumio Itabashi , Koichi Hiroki , Hiroshi Hatsuyama , Hiroshi Hatsuyama, Ryōjirō Furusawa
- Windows / Tamami Meets Coryell (Paddle Wheel, 1983), with Larry Coryell, Hideo Kawahara , Hideo Sekine , Toru Tsuzuki
- Face to Space (Paddle Wheel, 1984), with Shigeharu Mukai, Ichirō Doi , Ikuo Sakurai , Mike Reznikoff , Kazuo Yoshida
- Elsa / Tamami Meets Coryell II (Paddle Wheel, 1985), with Ikuo Sakurai, Mike Reznikoff, Larry Coryell, Kazuo Yoshida, Ichiro Doi
- The Great Jazz Quartet / Tamami Koyake: Hot Flutes (Paddle Wheel, 1985), with Hank Jones, Sam Most , Ichiro Doi, Ray Brown , Alan Dawson
- Lady's Blues (Paddle Wheel, 1992), with Toshiyuki Daitoku , Hiroaki Mizutani , Mike Reznikoff
Web links
- Tamami Koyake at Discogs (English)
- Tamami Koyake at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c entry (The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz)
- ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 21, 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koyake, Tamami |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 小 宅 珠 実 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yokohama |