Tatsuya Sato

Tatsuya Satō ( Japanese 佐藤 達 哉 , Satō Tatsuya ; born December 23, 1957 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz musician (tenor, baritone and soprano saxophone, also flute, clarinet).

Tatsuya Satō worked in the Japanese modern jazz scene from the 1970s ; first recordings were made in 1979 with the Waseda Modern Jazz Group (album Screamer's Staff , with Junji Kanda , Noriaki Katō , Kenichi Uchiyama , Kunichiro Miyakita ). In the early 1980s he played with George Kawaguchi ; In 1984 he recorded his debut album Still Love You with Daisuke Iwasaki , Masahiro Sayama , Koichi Hiroki , Gregg Lee and Kei Hirayama . In 1985 he released the album Like Someone in Love (Sound Design Records), on which he recorded jazz standards such as " All the Things You Are ", " A Night in Tunisia ", " I Want to Talk About You ", and " Rhythm-A -Ning “interpreted.

At the end of the 1980s he belonged to the Jazz Factory formation led by Hitoshi Okano , Akira Ōmori and Toshiyuki Daitoku and played in the following years a. a. with Sachi Hayasaka ( Straight to the Core (1989) and others with Wadada Leo Smith ), Takeshi Inomata , Yoshio Ikeda , in the 1990s also with Chiaki Ogasawara , Yoshihiko Katori and in the Kenichi Tsunoda Big Band. In 1997 he recorded the album The New Tenor Scene , on which Masayoshi Yoneda , Koichi Osamu , Mitsuaki Furuno and Ichirō Onoe participated. In the field of jazz, Tom Lord lists him in 21 recording sessions between 1979 and 2015, most recently with Yukiko Hayakawa ( Rose Neon , 2013) and the singer Sama ( White Night Waltz ).

Web links

• Tatsuya Satō at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 佐藤 達 哉 . In: Tower Records Online. August 30, 2012. Retrieved November 25, 2017 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 9, 2017)