Yōichi Kobayashi

Yōichi Kobayashi ( Japanese 小林 陽 一 , Kobayashi Yōichi ; * 1953 in Akita ) is a Japanese jazz musician ( drums ).

Yōichi Kobayashi worked in the Japanese jazz scene from the 1970s; first recordings were made in 1972 with Shoji Suzuki & The Rhythm Aces . In the following years he also played with Kunihiko Sugano , Kōnosuke Saijō , Ichiro Masuda and Eiji Kitamura . With Kōnosuke Saijō, Kazuo Yashiro and Ikuo Shiosaki he recorded the album West 8th Street on Castle Ave. on. In the 1980s he made several trips to the United States; he founded the Japanese-American formation Godfellas with Vincent Herring , with whom he created several albums, including a. with Stephen Scott , Bob Kenmotsu , Jamal Haynes , Philip Harper and numerous guest musicians.

In the following years he released a number of albums under his own name, such as Morning (King, 1999), Autumn in New York (P-Jazz, 2001), Yoichi Kobayashi with Vincent Herring (3D, 2002), Sukiyaki: Village Be Bop Quintet Live in Japan (2002), Culture Shock (Pony Canyon, 2006) and Happy Dance (3D, 2007). With the Monk's Trio (with Stephen Scott and Ron Carter ) he recorded two albums in 2003/04, Tomorrow Is the Date? and A Time for Love .

During this time Kobayashi also worked in Japan and in the United States with Yoshitaka Kanno , William Ash , Kem Kimura , Yukari Fujita , Dizzy Yoshimoto and the US Good Fellows (album Ballads (2009) as well as with Vincent Herring, Jill McCarron , Essiet Okon Essiet ), with whom he performed at the New York jazz club Smoke in 2014 . The discographer Tom Lord lists him in the field of jazz between 1972 and 2015 at 38 recording sessions.

Web links

• Musician profile (Japanese)
• Yōichi Kobayashi at Discogs (English)
• Yoichi Kobayashi at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 21, 2017)
2. ^ Everett Taylor Atkins: This Is Our Music: Authenticating Japanese Jazz, 1920-1980 . University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1997, p. 266.