Masahiko Satoh
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Biography
Jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Masahiko Satoh was born on October 6, 1941, in Tokyo, Japan. In 1944, his family moved into a house that included a piano and, within two years, he had started playing it. By the time he was 17, he was playing the piano professionally by accompanying various types of cabaret performers. Masahiko Satoh graduated from Keio University. In 1959, he joined jazz drummer George Kawaguchiâs band and played alongside alto saxophonist Sadao Watanabe and tenor saxophonist Akira Miyazawa. When Masahiko Satoh turned 26, he moved to the US to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. During his two years there, he studied composing and arranging while also working in a shop and playing piano in a hotel lobby to earn extra money. He returned to Japan and released Palladium, his debut solo album, in 1969. Further solo albums include Holography (1970), Amorphism (1985), Lunar Cruise (1990), Masahiko Satoh Plays Masahiko Togashi (2003), and Spring Snow (2013). Heâs also composed music for film, TV, and adverts. Since the beginning of his recording career, Masahiko Satoh has written/arranged for or performed with some of jazzâs greatest artists including Helen Merrill, Eddie Gómez, Peter Brötzmann, Paal Nilssen-Love, Steve Gadd, Jean-Luc Ponty, Nancy Wilson, and many others.
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- They Got Rhythm, Too featuring Wolfgang Dauner
- Everything featuring Wolfgang Dauner
- Jin-Juppo-Kai featuring Wolfgang Dauner
- Thousand Summers featuring Wolfgang Dauner
- For Chinatsu And Regina featuring Wolfgang Dauner
- Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair featuring Attila Zoller
- Close Up featuring Attila Zoller
- Together, Not Alone featuring Attila Zoller
- A Path Through Haze featuring Attila Zoller
- Amalgamation, Pt. 1 by The Sound Breakers
- Meet featuring Attila Zoller
- Amalgamation, Pt. 2 by The Sound Breakers
- Sazo featuring Attila Zoller
