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Kiyoshi Koyama (February 12, 1936 – February 3, 2019) was a Japanes jazz journalist and producer of reissues of recordings in the idiom.[1]
Koyama was born in Sakai, in the Osaka Prefecture. His father owned a sewing factory which was destroyed by fire during World War II.[1]
He was editor of Swing Journal from 1967 to 1981 and again from 1990 to 1993. The magazine closed in 2010. During the periods in between, Koyama worked on assembling box-set reissues, such as the complete jazz output of the Keynote label, issued on LP in 1986, and the CD set Brownie: The Complete EmArcy Recordings of Clifford Brown issued in 1989. Both were nominated for Grammy's in the Historical category. He was a disc jockey on the Japanese network NHK hosting a Saturday night program entitled Jazz Tonight.[1] He was the Japanese correspondent for DownBeat magazine. In 2015, he donated his collection of 30,000 interviews, including cassettes of interviews with musicians, to New York University.[2]
Koyama died from stomach cancer in February 2019, aged 82.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Russonello, Giovanni (February 17, 2019). "Kiyoshi Koyama, Prominent Japanese Jazz Journalist, Dies at 82". The New York Times. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
- ^ "Koyoshi Koyama, Swing Journal editor and 'Boxman,' dies at age 82". JJA News. February 20, 2019. Retrieved May 19, 2021.