T-Square is a Japanese jazz fusion band formed in 1978. They became famous in the late 70s and early 80s along with other Japanese bands in this genre.
The most famous formations include members from 1986 to 1990: guitarist Masahiro Andoh, saxophonist/flutist/EWI Takeshi Itoh, bassist Mitsuru Sutoh, keyboardist Hirotaka Izumi and drummer Hiroyuki Noritake. They are known for songs like " Truth ", " Japanese Soul Brothers ", " Takarajima ", " Omens of Love ", among others. "Truth" has been used as the theme for the F1 Television F1 (F1) coverage from 1989 to 2000 and since 2012. Special arrangements, " Truth 21c ", were used as themes for Japanese F1 2001 and 2002, respectively, and other remixes were used from 2003 to 2006.
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College Beginnings (1976 - 1978)
In 1976, the band started as a small fusion jazz group at Meiji University with a very basic line-up, made from bassist Yuhji Nakamura , guitarist Masahiro Andoh , pianist < b> Jun Hakama and drummer Shunichi Harada . According to Masahiro Andoh, the band's name is based on Madison Square Garden. Hakama and Harada were replaced by Junko Miyagi on the keyboard and Michael S. Kawai on drums, and a young, debuting Takeshi Itoh joined on top of saxophone and flute, in 1977. The Square (1978 - 1988)
With the support of guitarist Yuhji Mikuriya , keyboardist Shiro Sagisu and percussion Kiyohiko Senba joined in 1978, the band was later named " The Square ". It has a semi-generic sound, disco type. The main Saxophonist Takeshi Itoh adopted Lyricon as a side instrument. The Square will then begin the tradition of writing one to three songs with Lyricon on every new album afterwards. Over the course of the year, the number of members has been reduced from eight members (two keyboardists, two guitarists, drummer, percussionist, saxophone player and a bassist) to five (drummer, keyboardist, guitarist, saxophone player and a bassist). The group's voice has also evolved into more rock-oriented music when Yuhji Nakamura, Junko Miyagi and Michael S. Kawai were replaced by drummer Jun Aoyama (better known as drummer Tatsuro Yamashita from 1979 to 2003), bassist Toyoyuki Tanaka and keyboardist Prism Daisaku Kume. Kume just joined the band as a Support Member and left a year later. Percussionist Kiyohiko Senba left the group altogether. Jun Aoyama was substituted by Eiji Shimizu on drums in 1981, and pianist Hirotaka Izumi joined the band as their first long-term keyboardist/pianist. In 1982, Tohru Hasebe replaced Shimizu. Hiroyuki Noritake would later replace Hasebe on drums in 1986 as their first long-term drummer. In 1987, Mitsuru Sutoh replaced Toyoyuki Tanaka on bass, becoming the group's first long-term bassist. Takeshi Itoh will continue to turn his Lyricon into EWI AKAI before the band makes their first release in the United States. Believed that their first appearance in the US. is at the Cat Club at N.Y. Before they went to Roxy in Los Angeles, they realized there was already a group from England called "The Squares". Thus, the band changed their name to " T-Square ".
T-Square (1988 - 2000)
The band's performance at Roxy marked their first live album as T-Square . Two years later, Masato Honda debuted with them as a saxophonist on T-Square Live's album (featuring F1 Grand Prix Theme) . In 1991, Takeshi Itoh pursued a solo career, and Honda replaced him. Honda also composed the opening song from T-Square's " New-S ," Megalith ". After releasing the album " Blue in Red " in 1997, Honda left the group to pursue a solo career. Takahiro Miyazaki will replace it. At the same time, Hirotaka Izumi left T-Square and was replaced by Tadashi Namba. Namba played the keyboard on the theme song from Gran Turismo, " Moon Over The Castle " (from Masahiro's solo album "Andy ", released in 1996) T-Square of the song, called " Knight's Song ", from " Blue in Red ". The group and all the former and (at the time) members currently play at Yaon de Asobu for their 20th Anniversary of the same year. This is one of the last T-Square shows in which Masato Honda was involved (unlike Miyazaki and Itoh, Honda did not participate in three subsequent birthday concerts in 2003, 2008, and 2013). In 1999, Tadashi Namba was replaced by Keiji Matsumoto . The new ranks of Miyazaki, Noritake, Sutoh, Matsumoto and Andoh were kept until the middle of 2000.
In mid 2000, the band was divided into T-Square (early and long-term guitarist Masahiro Andoh , restored saxophone player Takeshi Itoh and musician sessions) and Trio The Square (bassist Mitsuru Sutoh , drummer Hiroyuki Noritake and keyboardist Keiji Matumoto ). This trio is the main reason why T-Square should use session musicians to record with the exception of the " Warning 25, The Square/T Comes Back (2003)
In 2003, they released an album titled " Spirits " under their real name, "The Square", and retained some of their original members (partly because of T-Square's 25th Anniversary that year) and retaining newcomer Keizoh Kawano. The formations are Itoh, Noritake, Sutoh, Kawano (support), Izumi and Andoh. They released another album, which featured new settings from some of their famous songs, called " T Comes Back ".
New Band Members (2004 - 2008)
Since then, the group changed their name again to T-Square. In 2004, Katsuji Morioka merged and replaced Mitsuru Sutoh on bass. A year later, Morioka was replaced by Shingo Tanaka as a bassist supporter. In 2005, Keizoh Kawano became the official keyboardist. Drummer Satoshi Bandoh replaced Hiroyuki Noritake in the same year. T-Square's original drummer, Michael S. Kawai, returned as a percussionist and behind-the-scenes producer from 2004 to 2008.
30th Anniversary and T-Square Super Band/Super Special Band, First Lineup (2008 - 2009)
The band briefly changed their name to T-Square Super Band, to promote their 30th Anniversary Tour. Most of the former T-Square members were involved in recording their new album, "Wonderful Days", adding more former members. It started in mid to late 2008 after the end of their "Wonderful Days" tour. Afterwards, the group renamed the T-Square Super Special Band and played at Yaon de Asobu for their 30th Anniversary Show. The event was released in February 2009 as "The Square ~ T-Square since 1978: 30th Anniversary Festival ".
The Closing Era of Your Own (2009 - 2012)
With the release of their 2009 Album, Discoveries, just 3 months after the DVD release mentioned earlier, the group dropped the "Super Special Band" from their name and cut its members to keyboardist Keizoh Kawano, drummer Satoshi Bandoh, restoring support bassist Shingo Tanaka and two original T-Square members, Masahiro Andoh and Takeshi Itoh. The invention was sold with a DVD that recorded T-Square performing and practicing in 2008. In 2010, they released a new album, " Jikan Ryoko " - which is the Japanese phrase for " Time Travel ". The album is intended to show more songwriting skills than the younger group members. In the summer of the same year, they re-recorded some of their old songs and released them in October as an album titled " Takara no Uta: T-Square plays The Square ". They will go on to release another original album, " Nine Stories ", in April 2011. Several current and previous T-Square members will tour with Satoshi Bandoh to promote his solo album, " Happy Life ! ", at the end of 2011. T-Square recorded another album T-Square playing The Square , released late October, just like last year. Keizoh Kawano recorded and released his own solo album, Dreams , months later. At the end of 2011, they performed a new song, 'Bird of Wonder', which was released with their 2012 album, " Wings ". The group then released another cover album, this time using the help of a special guest musician.
Warning 35th, T -Square Super Band (Second Lineup) and Second Item Rumor Takeshi Itoh (2013)
This marks the second time T-Square has branded themselves "T-Square Super Band", now in their 35th Anniversary promotion, " T-Square 35th Birthday Festival ". They have retained all Super Band members since 2008, except Hirumi Izumi pianist, and include percussion Kiyohiko Senba. Shingo Tanaka was also promoted from support members to the band's official members. After the release of " Smile ", the new Super Band T-Square Album, an image included in the release, with Japanese Subtitles/Kanji clearly reads something for "Itoh's Withdrawal" effect, makes Fans believe that Takeshi Itoh once again will go. In the last album of 2013, T-Square Plus - " History ", Itoh only appeared in 2 songs from the album, but has not left the band.
NEXT , Heaven , Treasure Hunter and BIRTH (2013 - Now)
" T-Square 35th Birthday Event " was released as Blu-ray in May 2014. Almost a month later, their album was released, " NEXT ".
T-Square's 40th album, " Paradise ", was released in July 2015, being one of ten T-Square Albums (along with Lucky Summer Lady, Midnight Lover (both from 1978) (1982), SPORTS (1986), Yes, No (1988), and Friendship (2000) ) will not be released in the spring.
"Paradise " is the first T-Square album to be released on iTunes in the United States, along with their Concert Compilations held from December 19 to 24, 2015 and the following studio album from 2016, " Treasure Hunters ". While these are all released on iTunes America, they are the only 3 albums available there, while iTunes Japan has a wider discography.
T-Square released their latest album, " BIRTHDAY ", in April 2017.
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Offshoot bands
The following list includes bands that include some of the previous T-Square members (present or previous).
AnMi2
AnMi2 is a guitar duo consisting of two first guitarist T-Square, Masahiro Andoh and Yuhji Mikuriya .
Trio The Square/Masato Honda Band/Voice of Elements
The group started as a result of creative differences between T-Square Line-up members in 1999-Early 2000, but the trio began in mid-1999, with keyboardist Keiji Matsumoto , drummer Hiroyuki Noritake and bassist Mitsuru Sutoh as The Square Trio. Trio The Square broke up in later 2000.
Later that year, Hiroyuki Noritake and Keiji Matsumoto , along with Bassist Tomohito Aoki , Guitarist Jun Kajiwara , will became a band supporting former T-Square saxophonist Masato Honda. The group has no official name, but, collectively dubbed by fans as "The Masato Honda Band".
Masato Honda Band was suspended in 2005, then completely disabled in the Beginning of Mid-2006, to make way for Voice of Elements, featuring, again, Hiroyuki Noritake and Keiji Matsumoto . Tomohito Aoki , the original bassist of Masato Honda Band, died of acute heart failure in June of that year, therefore, he was replaced by Mitsuru Sutoh . When Sutoh joined the group, everyone who had joined him was also a member of T-Square before. Voice of Elements, when the band was called when they returned in 2006, continued to perform and record until 2007.
Ottottrio
This group is Fusion Supergroup, led by 3 guitarists, T-Square Masahiro Andoh , Casiopea Issei Noro and KORENOS ' Hirokuni Korekata . Along with Masahiro Andoh , Drummer Hiroyuki Noritake is another T-Square musician who has been part of this group since 1988. Also, Bassist T-Square, Mitsuru Sutoh and (at the time) Keyboardist T-Square of the Future, Keiji Matsumoto was recorded with them in late 1998 (and actually joined T-Square a few months later). KoreNoS
The band was formed in 2004 by Hirokuni Kore said, Hiroyuki No ritake and Mitsuru S utoh. They released 2 studio albums, "Asian Street Style" (2004) and "Abracadabra" (2005). They also released a live album in 2007.
Casiopea vs. The Square
Although "Casiopea vs. The Square" was performed as a one-time event in 2003 (DVDs and CDs have different audio sources indicating that there may be 2 shows), the extension of 2 different Jazz-Fusion bands goes back to 1993. Former Percussion The Square, Kiyohiko Senba, played in one of 1993 Casiopea's album, "Dramatic". A year later, the two groups played the Beatles "Get Back" setting on the Japanese Broadcast. 3 years after that, Casiopea, T-Square and Jimsaku played in Tokyo Jam 1997, with the same song. In 2003, the two groups played (with some players replaced), at an event called Casiopea vs. The Square. Both Groups still have few alliances, see as drummer Casiopea 1993 - 1997, Noriaki Kumagai and Former Bassist T-Square, Mitsuru Sutoh both in TRIX. Dan Sax player Takeshi Itoh performed with Keyboardist Casiopea, Minoru Mukaiya in 2006.
Synchronized DNA
Drummer Hiroyuki Noritake from T-Square and Akira Jimbo from Casiopea made Drum Duo in 2003, after the concert "Casiopea vs. The Square".
Pyramid
Pianist Hirotaka Izumi , ex-Casiopea drummer Akira Jimbo and guitarist Yuji Toriyama along with other studio musicians, formed the band "Pyramid". They have released three studio albums.
As a Support Member for Other Artists
After the dissolution of Trio the Square, Mitsuru Sutoh and Keiji Matsumoto will later become backing musicians for Japanese pop group Acapella, 'The Gospellers'. Sutoh also plays for TRIX (since they formed in 2004). Another recognized musician in the group is Noriaki Kumagai (drummer Casiopea 1993-1996).
Drummer Hiroyuki Noritake and Keyboardist Keizoh Kawano , along with Bassist Ko Shimizu (from Naniwa Express) will record as a Support Member for J-Fusion/Rock guitarist Kumi Adachi in 2007-2008.
Current T-Square Bassist Shingo Tanaka is a former part of The 39's/The Thank You's (39 in Japanese can be pronounced as san ky? , which resembles Thank You). The 39's are the bands that accompany the concerts performed by the Vocaloids, in particular the "39's Giving Day" concert series (again, it will sound like "Thanksgiving Day"), although the concert itself will not always be held that day. During the 39th Giving Day Concert in March 2012, the band was also accompanied by Takahiro Miyazaki.
Discography
- Lucky Summer Lady (1978)
- Midnight Lover (1978)
- Make Me A Star (1979)
- Rockoon (1980)
- The first T-Square album with Takeshi Itoh playing Lyricon (he will use Yamaha WX11 in 1987 and AKAI EWI from 1988 onwards).
- Magic (1981)
- Jungle Strut (1982)
- Considered very rare among T-Square fans, the song was released as a cassette-only single, along with Sony Walkman from Japan in 1982.
- Japanese Soul Brothers (February 1982, NHK Broadcast)
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