Takehiro Honda

Takehiro Honda (本田竹広, 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.

Discography

• T. Honda Meets Rhythm Section Featuring S. Watanabe (Trio, 1969 [1970]) with Sadao Watanabe
• Jodo (Trio, 1970)
• What's Going On (Trio, 1971 [1973])
• This Is Honda (Trio, 1972)
• Salaam Salaam (East Wind, 1974)
• Another Departure (Flying Disk, 1977) with Ron Carter and Tony Williams
• It's Great Outside (Flying Disk, 1978)
• As NATIVE SON, Savanna Hot-Line (Victor, 1979)
• As NATIVE SON, Aguncha (Polydor, 1978 [1987])
• EASE (BMG JAPAN, 1992 [1993])
• My Piano My Life 05: Piano Recital (Teichiku Entertainment, 2005)

References

• Kazunori Sugiyama, "Takehiro Honda". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
• Biography of Takehiro Honda (in Japanese)