Tamaya Honda

Tamaya Honda ( Japanese 本田珠也 , Honda Tamaya , * around 1960) is a Japanese jazz musician ( drums ).

Live and act

Tamaya Honda comes from a family of musicians; his father is the jazz pianist Takehiro Honda , his mother the singer Chiko Honda and Sadao Watanabe and Fumio Watanabe are his uncles. He initially took piano lessons, but then turned to drums, where he was initially influenced by Hiroshi Murakami , the drummer of the fusion band Native Son led by his father . In 1985 he switched to the band, which also included Kohsuke Mine , Motonobu Ohde and Yasushi Yoneki ; He was a member of Native Son for five years . Around 2000 he played in the Aramaki Band ( Changes One ), in the following years with Masabumi Kikuchi ( On the Move (2001), with Tomokazu Sugimoto , Bass), Kei Akagi , Mikio Ishida , Michiyo Yagi , in the Naruyoshi Kikuchi Dub Sextet and his own Tamaya Honda Trio (with bassist Takashi Sugawa , saxophonist Miyuki Moriya and pianist Kōichi Satō ). In 2011 Honda appeared in a trio with Peter Brötzmann and Michiyo Yagi as well as with Jeb Bishop , Joe McPhee , Mars Williams , Jason Adasiewicz and Kent Kessler at the Music Unlimited Festival in Wels.

Kei Akagi: Live Shapes in Time (Video Arts, 2005), with Tomokazu Sugimoto
Naruyoshi Kikuchi Dub Sextet: The Revolution Will Not Be Computerized (EWE Records, 2007)
Naruyoshi Kikuchi Dub Sextet: Dub Orbits (EWE Records, 2008)
Michiyo Yagi, Tamaya Honda: Dōjō Vol. 1 (Idiolect, 2014)
Yuichiro Aratake : Time for a Change (2015), with Shinji Hashimoto, Yoshihito P. Koizumi, Daiki Mishima
Michiyo Yagi, Tamaya Honda: Dōjō Vol. 2 (Idiolect, 2017)
Tamaya Honda Trio: Second Country (Anturtle Tune, 2017), with Miyuki Moriya , Takashi Sugawa
Tamaya Honda ICTUS Trio: Ictus (Song X, 2018), with Takashi Sugawa, Kōichi Satō

personal data
SURNAME	Honda, Tamaya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	本田珠也 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese jazz musician (drums)
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1960