Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

Tsuyoshi Yamamoto is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer, born in 1948 in Niigata prefecture. He came to jazz in his teens after hearing the Jazz Messengers, and in 1974 he became the house pianist at Misty, a jazz club in Tokyo. That same year he made his debut as a leader with Midnight Sugar on Three Blind Mice, and he has worked mostly in the piano trio format ever since. Yamamoto turned professional while still a student at Nihon University and toured Europe as accompanist to the singer Micky Curtis.