Tatsuya Nakatani

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Tatsuya Nakatani ( Japanese 中 谷 達 也 , Nakatani Tatsuya ; born January 20, 1970 in Osaka Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz and improvisation musician (percussion).

Live and act

Tatsuya Nakatani worked in the United States from the late 1990s in ensembles of Curt Newton , Dan DeChellis , Greg Kelly and Michael Bullock, with whom he made his first recordings. In the 2000s he played with Assif Tsahar's New York Underground Orchestra , with Billy Bang , Mary Halvorson , Nate Wooley's Blue Collar and as a guest musician with the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra . He also worked in various duo formations, including a. with Peter Kowald ( 13 Definitions of Truth ), Kaoru Watanabe , Eugene Chadbourne and with Michel Doneda ( White Stone Black Lamp ). In addition, he released several albums, u. a. with the Trio Yukijurushi and works with the Nakatani Gong Orchestra . In the field of jazz he was involved in 34 recording sessions between 1998 and 2018. In 2008 he performed with Frank Gratkowski and Sebastian Gramss in the Cologne Loft ( Oirtrio ), where he performed with this trio during European tours in the following two years. Nakatani lives in the Philadelphia area.

Discographic notes

  • Solo Percussion Green Report (H&H Production, 2004)
  • Primal Communication (H&H, 2007)
  • Yukijurushi: Mott Haven (H&H, 2004), Eiji Obata, Todd Nicholson
  • Limn (H&H, 2005), with Audrey Chen, Susan Alcorn
  • Tatsuya Nakatani / Forbes Graham: Essences (Blaq Lghtn, 2010)
  • OirTrio Kanata ( Not Two Records , 2010)
  • Confirmation (Taiga, 2015)
  • Adam Rudolph / Dave Liebman / Tatsuya Nakatani: The Unknowable (2018)
  • Interactivity (Cuneiform, 2020), with Shane Parish

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://bowscollective.com/blog/2012/10/16/tatsuya-nakatani-and-kevin-corcoran-1020/
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, August 28, 2020)
  3. ↑ Oirtrio: Gratkowski - Gramss - Nakatani. In: Loft Cologne. November 30, 2009, accessed September 13, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Loft Cologne October 16, 2010 ( Memento from January 11, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Nakatani, Tatsuya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 中 谷 達 也 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz and improvisation musician (percussion)
DATE OF BIRTH 20th January 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Osaka prefecture