Yagi Masao
November 14, 1932 – March 4, 1991 was a Japanese pianist who became devoted to American jazz very early in the wave of Japanese jazz enthusiasm. He became a member of the Cozy Quartet in 1956 after Toshiko Akiyoshi's departure, playing alongside Sadao Watanabe. Robin Kelley, in his biography of Thelonious Monk, says that before his inaugural 1963 tour, "Monk's greatest champion in Japan was not a critic but a pianist named Yagi Masao.
Also recorded as Masao Yagi
Yagi Masao
- Born
- 1932
- Died
- 1991
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November 14, 1932 – March 4, 1991 was a Japanese pianist who became devoted to American jazz very early in the wave of Japanese jazz enthusiasm. He became a member of the Cozy Quartet in 1956 after Toshiko Akiyoshi's departure, playing alongside Sadao Watanabe. Robin Kelley, in his biography of Thelonious Monk, says that before his inaugural 1963 tour, "Monk's greatest champion in Japan was not a critic but a pianist named Yagi Masao.
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Born in 1932, died in 1991.
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- 1.Robin D.G. Kelley: Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. Free Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-684-83190-9, S. 338.
- 2.William Minor: Jazz Journeys to Japan: The Heart Within. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2004, ISBN 0-472-11345-3.
- 3.Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, abgerufen am 22. August 2017)
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