Tatsuro Takimoto
Tatsurō Takimoto ( Japanese 滝 本 逹 朗 , Takimoto Tatsurō ; * around 1930) is a Japanese jazz musician ( double bass ).
Tatsurō Takimoto was active in the Japanese jazz scene from the 1950s; first recordings were made in 1954 when he played at the Macambo Sessions in the jazz club of the same name in Yokohama with musicians such as Hampton Hawes , Sadao Watanabe , Akira Watanabe , Akitoshi Igarashi , Shotaro Moriyasu and Jun Shimizu . In 1956 he was a member of the All-Star Band put together by the Swing Journal ; In 1959/60 recordings were made with the New Direction Quintet (album Modern Jazz Composer's Corner , with Ryozo Sugiura , Shungo Sawada , Tadanori Nakamure , Kanji Harada , Kiyoshi Yamaya ) and the Modern Jazz All Stars in Japan (album Battle of Funky , Toshiba).
In the following years Takimoto u. a. with Hidehiko Matsumoto , Tetsuo Hayashi , Kōnosuke Saijō , Helen Merrill ( In Tokyo , 1963), Sonny Rollins ( Sonny Rollins Quintet Tokyo 1963 , inter alia with Tetsuo Fushimi ), Norio Maeda , Tadayuki Harada and with Takeshi Inomata & His West Liners. In the field of jazz, Tom Lord lists him in 31 recording sessions between 1954 and 1969. He also worked with the two koto players Tadao and Kazue Sawai on the crossover production JS Bach Is Alive and Well and Doing His Thing on the Koto (RCA, with Hozan Yamamoto , Sadanori Nakamure and Takeshi Inomata).
Web links
- Tatsurō Takimoto at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Takimoto, Tatsuro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 滝 本 逹 朗 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1930 |