Takehiro Honda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese jazz pianist (1945-2006)
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Place of Birth: Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
About Takehiro Honda
- Takehiro Honda (????, Honda Takehiro, August 21, 1945 – January 12, 2006) was a Japanese jazz pianist. Honda was born in Miyako, Iwate.
- He started playing piano at age five and studied at the Kunitachi College of Music, where he played in a quartet with Kazunori Takeda.
- By 1969 he was recording under his own name with a trio.
- He performed with Sadao Watanabe in 1973 and then formed Native Son with Kosuke Mine, which toured internationally.
- Other credits include performing or recording with Hiroshi Murakami, Hiroshi Fukumura, Motohiko Hino, Shigeharu Mukai, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Eddie Gómez and Eliot Zigmund.
- His son is jazz musician Tamaya Honda.
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