Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio

The Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio is the piano trio led by the Japanese jazz pianist Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (born 1948 on Sado Island). Yamamoto became house pianist at Misty, a Tokyo jazz club, in 1974, and the same year he made his first records as a leader for Three Blind Mice. Its first albums, Midnight Sugar and Misty, both came out in 1974. On those first Three Blind Mice sessions Yamamoto worked with Isao Fukui on bass and Tetsujiro Obara on drums, and the label also issued Live at the Misty and Midnight Sun (1978). In 1976 he recorded Life with Sam Jones and Billy Higgins.