Yasushi Nakamura

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Yasushi Nakamura ( Japanese 中 村 恭 士 , Nakamura Yasushi , * 1982 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese modern jazz musician ( double bass ) living in the United States .

Life

Yasushi Nakamura grew up in Seattle; at the age of eleven he had musical training on clarinet and tenor saxophone. At the age of 14 he started playing the electric bass; before he decided on the double bass. In Seattle he took lessons from Chuck Deardorf , Doug Miller and Michael Stearns . During this time he won awards such as the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival Award and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award . After graduating from Newport High School in 2000, he studied jazz at Berklee College of Music . There he had lessons from Whit Browne , Hal Crook , Ron Mahdi , John Lockwood and Phil Wilson . The first recordings were made in 2002 by Christine Fawson ( Happy Talk ). In 2003 he received his bachelor's degree from Berklee; In 2004 he continued his studies with a scholarship at the New York Juilliard School , where he had lessons with Ben Wolfe and in 2006 he obtained the Artist Diploma in Jazz Studies .

In the following years Nakamura worked in the New York jazz scene a. a. with Michael Dease / Chris Madsen , Barbara Lea / Loren Schoenberg , Sharel Cassity , Carl Allen , Darren Barrett , David Berger , Victor Goines , Wycliffe Gordon , Benny Golson , Jon Hendricks , Eddie Henderson , Hank Jones , John Pizzarelli , Wynton Marsalis , Myron Walden , Frank Wess , Richard Wyands and Jon Irabagon , in the 2010s also with Marshall Gilkes , Clarence Penn , Dave Douglas , Christian Sands , Tesse Souta , Vincent Herring , Rudy Royston and Theo Hill . He performs regularly in New York clubs such as Blue Note , Birdland , Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Smalls . In the field of jazz he was involved in 43 recording sessions between 2002 and 2018. Currently (2019) he plays in the Adam Birnbaum Quartet and the Lew Tabackin Trio.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Yasushi Nakamura. Smalls, February 1, 2019, accessed February 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 1, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Nakamura, Yasushi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician (double bass)
DATE OF BIRTH 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo