Yoriyuki Harada

Yoriyuki Harada ( Japanese 原田依幸 , Harada Yoriyuki ; * 1948 in Shimane Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz pianist (also bass clarinet , clarinet , percussion ) of free jazz , stylistically in the tradition of Cecil Taylor .

Yoriyuki Harada studied at the Kunitachi College of Music , where he met Kazutoki Umezu . He worked from the 1970s a. a. in the formations Seikatsu Kōjyō Iinkai (Album Live Improvement Committee (1975), with Ahmed Abdullah , Kazutoki Umezu, William Parker , Rashied Sinan ) and Shudan Sokai (with Junji Mori , Kazutoki Umezu, Takashi Kikuchi ), also with Kazutoki Umezu in Umezu Harada Duo and in the Yoriyuki Harada Unit (including with Hideaki Mochizuki ). He has also worked on recordings by Kohsuke Mine ( Daguri , 1973), Shigeharu Mukai ( A Head Wind , 1975), Takeo Moriyama ( Flush Up , 1977), Ryōjirō Furusawa ( Spicy Islands , 1978) and Fumio Itabashi ( Nature , 1979) .

In 1980 Yoriyuki played an album with duos, trios and quartets in various line-ups ( Miu ); in the same year he appeared in a duo with Kazutoki Umezu at the Donaueschinger Musiktage ( thanks ; PJL). In the 1980s he also worked with Akira Sakata , Kōichi Matsukaze , Takeo Moriyama , Itaru Oki , Hiroaki Katayama . In 1988 he played the live album Ehyang with his unit band, which included Akihiro Ishiwatari and guest musician Andrew Cyrille . In the field of jazz, Tom Lord lists him between 1975 and 1988 with 10 recording sessions. In later years he played in a duo with Sergei Letow and with Tristan Honsinger , in trios with Shoji Hano and David Chiesa , with Choi Sun Bae and Alfred Harth and with Masami Shinoda and Takuya Nishimura .

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