Yoshio Toyama

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Yoshio Toyama

Yoshio Toyama ( Japanese 外 山 喜 夫 , Toyama Yoshio ; born March 5, 1944 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz musician ( cornet , trumpet , vocals ) and band leader of Dixieland .

Yoshio Toyama studied at Waseda University and has been active in the Japanese trad jazz scene since the 1960s; first recordings were made after moving to the United States in 1968 with the Bob Greenes International New Orleans Jazz Band at the Manasses Jazz Festival (with Slide Harris and Zutty Singleton, among others ). There he also appeared in an all-star combo conducted by Eddie Condon . In 1969 in New Orleans there were musical encounters with jazz musicians such as Albert Burbank , Joe Watkins and Chester Zardis . From the 1970s he worked with his own bands such as Yoshio Toyama's New Orleans Jazzmen ; With his formation His Dexieland Saints , which also included his wife Keiko (banjo, piano) as well as Kotaro Ikeda (trombone) and Masahiro Gotō (clarinet), he played in Japan, Europe and the United States a. a. with Alton Purnell , Preston Jackson , Jim Robinson , Don Ewell , Ralph Sutton , Wild Bill Davison and 1997 with Sir Charles Thompson . In the field of jazz, Tom Lord lists him in 44 recording sessions between 1968 and 2010.

Discographic notes

  • Preston Jackson: Shoe Shine Boy (1972)
  • Don Ewell / Yoshio Toyama: Dream a Little Dream of Me (Jazzology, 1975), with Masahiro Goto
  • Alton Purnell with Yoshio Toyama and The Dixieland Saints: Alton Purnell in Japan 1976 (GHB, 1976, ed. 1990)
  • Yoshio Toyama and His Dexieland [sic] Saints: The Saints (RCA, 1978), with Kyoji Aoki , Masahiro Gotō, Yoshizo Nakajima , Keiko Toyama , Yuji Matsuoka
  • Don Ewell, Yoshio Toyoma: Tribute to Louis Armstrong - St. Louis Blues (1981)
  • Wild Bill Davison with Yoshio Toyama's Dixieland Saints: Wild Bill Davison in Japan (Jazzology, 1991), with Yasushi Harada , Masahiro Gotoh, Shoji Fujimori , Keiko Toyama, Kyoji Aoki, Yoshizo Nakajima
  • Ralph Sutton, Yoshio Toyama: Duet (Jazzology, 1987, 1990, ed. 1993)

price

  • Spirit of Satchmo -premie (2018)

Web links

Commons : Yoshio Toyama  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 外 山 喜 雄 . In: Tower Records Online. October 17, 2012, Retrieved November 25, 2017 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 1, 2017)
  3. ↑ Japanese Satchmo 'honored in jazz birthplace of New Orleans. In: Japan Today. August 12, 2018, accessed on August 12, 2018 (eb).
personal data
SURNAME Toyama, Yoshio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 外 山 喜 夫 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo prefecture