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Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (山本剛, Yamamoto Tsuyoshi, born 23 March 1948) is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer.

Life and career

Yamamoto was largely self-taught as a pianist, although he did have piano lessons as a child. He attended Nihon University. As a student there, he played professionally, first as an accompanist to pop singer Micky Curtis; they toured Europe in 1967. In 1974, he became house pianist at Misty, a Tokyo jazz club. He also made his recording debut as leader that year. He played major international festivals in the late 1970s. He also "lived in New York for a year, when he performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Carmen McRae, Sam Jones, Billy Higgins, Elvin Jones, and Sonny Stitt, among others."

Playing style

Commenting on Yamamoto's 2008 album What a Wonderful Trio!, Audiophile Audition noted that "Yamamoto seems to favor the very highest reaches of the treble keyboard with great gusto".

Discography

An asterisk (*) after the year indicates that it is the year of release.

As leader/co-leader

As sideman

References

1. ^ Sugiyama, Kazunori, Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi, Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press, retrieved 31 January 2015
2. Henry, John (14 March 2009) "Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio – What a Wonderful Trio! – First Impression Music DXD" Archived 2015-01-31 at the Wayback Machine. Audiophile Audition.

• 1948 births
• Japanese jazz pianists
• Living people
• Nihon University alumni
• 21st-century Japanese pianists