Profile No. JA-239

Tomohiro Yahiro

Percussion, Drums — Japanese — B: June 22, 1961, Tokyo, Japan

Last updated October 21, 2026

Cover of Chamber Ensemble Hakkohzan (Shiosai ZiZO SHCZ-0016, 2002), the chamber trio of Yosuke Yamashita, Shigeharu Mukai and Tomohiro Yahiro. Album artwork, shown for identification; it is not a photograph of the artist. Standard copyright, all rights reserved, held by the label (Shiosai ZiZO). This is not a Creative Commons or public-domain image; it is an album cover shown as an honestly disclosed editorial identification image. — https://music.apple.com/jp/album/622569467 (Apple Music artwork, 1000 px)

Tomohiro Yahiro (八尋知洋, also written ヤヒロトモヒロ) is a Tokyo-born percussionist whose name turns up on Japanese records across more than four decades. Most of those records are pop and rock sessions; a smaller, steadier body of them is jazz, and three albums are his own or co-led. He was born on June 22, 1961, according to both Discogs and Wikidata, which agree on Tokyo as his birthplace. A 2010 concert listing says he grew up in the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, came back to Japan and made his debut in 1980, and describes him as working across jazz, rock, pop and South American music. It names among the people he has toured or played concerts with Yosuke Yamashita, Kazumi Watanabe, the film composer Joe Hisaishi (久石譲), Lisa Ono, Minako Yoshida, Taeko Onuki, Masashi Sada, Tokiko Kato, the guitarist coba and the Afro-funk band Jagatara.

His earliest credits on Discogs date from 1983, on Windy Island, an RCA album by Spick & Span, a Japanese band working in Brazilian-flavoured fusion. In 1984 he was on three jazz-adjacent records in a single year: Fumio Itabashi's Impact (Paddle Wheel), an arranger's album with a horn section that included Toshiyuki Honda and Shigeharu Mukai; Naoya Matsuoka's Natsu no Tabi (Warner), a jazz-fusion record; and Mukai's Japonesia (Better Days), made with the band Orissa. The rest of the 1980s and the 1990s fill up with pop, rock and world-music sessions: Acoustic Club's albums from 1986, Jagatara's records from 1987, Hiroko Yakushimaru in 1988, Kyoko Koizumi in 1991, Soul Flower Union in 1994, Epo, Bonnie Pink and Yosui Inoue later on.

The jazz thread that runs through those years is mostly the Tokyo scene around Sachi Hayasaka and Kazutoki Umezu. He plays percussion on Hayasaka's debut with Stir Up!, Free Fight (recorded November 1987 and January 1988), and on 2.26, the live album the group cut at Buddy in Tokyo on February 26, 1992 and Enja released in 1994, with Yosuke Yamashita as guest pianist. He is credited on three tracks of Umezu's Kinema (NEC Avenue, 1990), recorded at GOK Sound in December 1989 and January 1990, and he plays on the Umezu and Shakushain album Desert in a Hand (Knitting Factory Works, 1997). He is also on Kazumi Watanabe's Pandora (Polydor, 1991) and on records by the violinist Asuka Kaneko, Multi Venus (1992) and Mother (2002), where Discogs also credits him as co-producer.

On October 3, 1992 he recorded a duo concert with Fumio Itabashi at Galerie Kazuki in Fukuoka. It came out in April 1993 as Jigazo: Sakuhin 1 (自画像作品１, "Self-Portrait, Work 1"), catalogue number MD-001 on the Mix Dynamite label, six tracks including a 24-minute "Peach Blossom Land" and a "Gospel '89". Itabashi plays piano, melodica, khene and percussion on it, and the record is credited to the two of them.

In 2002 he joined Yosuke Yamashita and Shigeharu Mukai in a chamber trio, 室内楽団八向山 (Chamber Ensemble Hakkohzan), released on Shiosai ZiZO on June 28, 2002. The name is built from the first kanji of the three surnames: 八 for Yahiro, 向 for Mukai, 山 for Yamashita. The same year Sachi Hayasaka founded Minga, a percussion-driven world-jazz group, with Yahiro, the percussionist Gen Ogimi, the Senegalese sabar drummer Wagane Ndiaye Rose and bassist Toshiki Nagata; its album was recorded at GOK Sound on November 18 to 20, 2002 and released on John Zorn's Tzadik label in 2003, and Yahiro is credited on it as both percussionist and co-producer. His own record from this period is Tomohiro Yahiro & Os Amarelos (Omagatoki, December 15, 2004), a sixteen-track set of Brazilian songs and sambas, with Nagata on acoustic bass, Kazuhiko Ubata on guitar, Tohru Nakajima on piano and Iuko Maeda on vocals.

Two long partnerships define the years after that. The first is Gaia Cuatro, the meeting of two Argentine musicians, the pianist Gerardo Di Giusto and the bassist Carlos "El Tero" Buschini, and two Japanese, Asuka Kaneko on violin and voice and Yahiro on percussion. They recorded Gaia in October 2004 (Cristal Records, 2006) and then moved to the Italian jazz label Abeat, which issued Udin (2008, with liner notes by Paolo Fresu), Haruka (2010, with Fresu on trumpet and flugelhorn), Kaze (2015, with Fresu and the Solis String Quartet), Lucrecia (2019, billed with Fresu) and a vinyl edition of Udin in 2020. On Kaze Yahiro is also credited as composer of "Chicooos" and the bonus track "Marcha Gaiana". The quartet played the Bimhuis in Amsterdam on April 6, 2007, and a recording from Espace Senghor in Brussels on March 9, 2013 has Fresu guesting.

The second is Dos Orientales, a duo with the Uruguayan keyboardist Hugo Fattoruso. Its sources date the start to 2007 or 2008. The albums are Dos Orientales (Barca Discos, 2010), Orienta (Beans Records, 2011), Tercer Viaje (Beans Records, 2016, issued digitally in December 2018) and En Vivo en Buenos Aires (Zorn Records, 2023); Apple Music files the first two under Latin Jazz, and Discogs tags the Beans Records pair Jazz and Latin. The duo's Dos Orientales Tour 2010 included a Kyoto date on October 20 of that year, it played Buenos Aires's Boris Club in March 2013, and a documentary about it premiered on November 29, 2018. Yahiro's own site lists a Dos Orientales Japan tour for 2025, and a new single, "Para Nico Mora," was released through KaiYa Project in May 2025.

Alongside those he kept turning up on jazz dates by other leaders: Akira Sakata's Himawari (2006), Shadows (2011) by the Elan Vital Project, on which Umezu plays clarinet and saxophones, the flutist Yuka Sasaki's Ghost in Saint-Quentin (recorded September 29 and 30, 2014, released 2015) with Lew Tabackin as guest, the pianist Sumire Kuribayashi's The Story Behind (2018) and Hirokazu Yamaguchi's Vortex Box (2020). On June 22, 2021, his sixtieth birthday, he streamed a concert with no audience on the KaiYa Project's YouTube channel; his site's listing for the event names Yosuke Yamashita and Akira Sakata among the musicians involved. He turned 65 in June 2026.

Yahiro is first of all a working percussionist, and the honest way to describe his catalogue is by its proportions. Discogs shows about 175 entries under his name, and the large majority are sessions on pop, rock, soundtrack and world-music records. The jazz-identified work is a fraction of that, but it is a real and continuous fraction: three leader or co-leader albums that Discogs files under Jazz, a long run on Sachi Hayasaka's and Kazutoki Umezu's records, the Hakkohzan trio, and two decades with Gaia Cuatro on an Italian jazz label. Discogs's own profile of him begins with the words "Japanese jazz percussionist," and Wikidata lists him as a jazz musician.

What he brings to a jazz setting is mostly colour and counterpoint rather than time-keeping. A Jazz in Japan review of Hakkohzan says his percussion supplies as much counterpoint and harmony as rhythm, drawing on a wide range of sounds, and that the trio plays little conventional swing, so a listener expecting a standard jazz beat and long solos may be disappointed. The record is arranged, chamber-like music, with Yosuke Yamashita often driving the rhythm on piano and Shigeharu Mukai carrying the melodies.

Latin American music is the other constant. It runs from the Brazilian fusion of Spick & Span in 1983 through Os Amarelos (2004), made up of Brazilian songs, to the Argentine-Japanese folk-jazz of Gaia Cuatro and the Uruguayan material of Dos Orientales. Discogs tags Gaia Cuatro's albums with styles that include Latin Jazz, Contemporary Jazz and Free Improvisation. In the 1980s and 1990s he was also a standard hire for pop producers, which is why a list of his credits looks nothing like a jazz discography; the two kinds of work run side by side.

Key Recordings

Hakkohzan (2002, Shiosai ZiZO SHCZ-0016, with Yosuke Yamashita and Shigeharu Mukai) - The chamber trio named after the first kanji of its three members' surnames, ten tracks including "Samarkand" and a closing "Afro Blue." Apple Music - Hakkohzan Listen
Jigazo: Sakuhin 1 (1993, Mix Dynamite MD-001, with Fumio Itabashi) - A piano and percussion duo recorded in a Fukuoka gallery on October 3, 1992, centred on a 24-minute "Peach Blossom Land." No streaming copy was found.
Haruka (Gaia Cuatro, 2010, Abeat AB JZ 080) - The quartet with Paolo Fresu on trumpet and flugelhorn. Spotify - Haruka · YouTube - Haruka Listen
Udin (Gaia Cuatro, 2008, Abeat AB JZ 054) - The group's first Abeat album, with liner notes by Paolo Fresu. Spotify - Udin Listen
Dos Orientales (2010, Barca Discos SLC 693, with Hugo Fattoruso) - The duo's first album, piano, accordion and percussion. Apple Music - Dos Orientales · YouTube - live at Boris Club, Buenos Aires, 2013 Listen · Buy
Minga (Sachi Hayasaka, Tzadik TZ 7244, 2003) - Percussion-driven world jazz, with Yahiro and Gen Ogimi on percussion and Wagane Ndiaye Rose on sabar. Apple Music - Minga Listen
Tomohiro Yahiro & Os Amarelos (2004, Omagatoki OMCA 1035) - His own album of Brazilian songs, with Toshiki Nagata on bass. No streaming copy was found. Buy

Full Discography

Tomohiro Yahiro (八尋知洋) - Full Discography

Japanese percussionist working in jazz, Latin and world music, and as a session player on pop and rock records. Born June 22, 1961, Tokyo. Discogs artist 314268, whose profile reads "Japanese jazz percussionist."

Name variations on record: T. Yahiro, Tomohiro, Tomohiro "Bush" Yashiro, Yahiro Tomohiro, ヤヒロトモヒロ, ヤヒロトモヒロ, ヤヒロ・トモヒロ, やひろともひろ, 八尋知洋, 八尋トモヒロ, 八尋智洋, 八尋知洋.

Group affiliations: Gaia Cuatro, Dos Orientales, Sachi Hayasaka & Stir Up!, Shakushain, Resonance Vox, Acoustic Club, Spick & Span, Spics, Pa'delante, Nervio.

Official site: https://www.tomohiroyahiro.com/

Leader and co-billed releases

Album	Year	Label	Personnel	Notes	Listen	Buy
Jigazo: Sakuhin 1 (自画像作品１), billed to Fumio Itabashi with Tomohiro Yahiro	1993	Mix Dynamite, MD-001	Fumio Itabashi (piano, melodica, percussion, khene), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion)	Recorded at Galerie Kazuki, Fukuoka, on October 3, 1992; released April 1993. Six tracks: "Impro-Kazuki" (7:38), "Peach Blossom Land" (24:54), "Sai-Yu-Ki" (3:27), "Shuffle '90s" (10:43), "Song With Yasumoto" (7:01), "Gospel '89" (9:16). Discogs tags it Jazz. Cover art by Kazuaki Miyazaki (calligraphy) and Ryosuke Yasumoto (etching).	not found	Amazon
Chamber Ensemble "Hakkohzan" (室内楽団八向山), credited to Yosuke Yamashita, Shigeharu Mukai, Tomohiro Yahiro	2002	Shiosai ZiZO, SHCZ-0016	Yosuke Yamashita (piano), Shigeharu Mukai (trombone), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion)	Released June 28, 2002. Ten tracks: "Hakkohzan", "Samarkand", "Calypso Hakkohzan", "Fest. Of Lights", "Forever", "Purple Field", "Fuga De La Liberation", "Tri-Poison", "Tone Whole", "Afro Blue". Discogs tags it Jazz, style Contemporary Jazz. The title is the first kanji of the three surnames (八尋, 向井, 山下).	Apple Music	Amazon
Tomohiro Yahiro & Os Amarelos	2004	Omagatoki Co., Ltd., OMCA 1035	Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion, leader), Toshiki Nagata (acoustic bass), Kazuhiko Ubata (guitar), Tohru Nakajima (piano), Iuko Maeda (vocals)	Released December 15, 2004. Sixteen tracks of Brazilian songs and sambas, among them "Upa Neguinho", "Menino Do Rio", "Odara", "No Tabuleiro Da Baiana", "Na Baixa Do Sapateiro" and "Samba De Desejo". Discogs tags it Jazz and Latin.	not found	Amazon

Group releases: Gaia Cuatro and Dos Orientales

Yahiro is one of four members of Gaia Cuatro and one of two members of Dos Orientales; both are listed on Discogs as groups with him as a member.

Album	Year	Label	Personnel	Notes	Listen	Buy
Gaia (Gaia Cuatro)	2006	Cristal Records, CR CD0610	Asuka Kaneko (violin, voice, erhu), Gerardo Di Giusto (piano, liner notes), Carlos Buschini (electric and acoustic bass), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion)	The group's first album, recorded and mixed in October 2004. Discogs tags it Jazz, Latin and Folk, World and Country, styles Free Improvisation, Latin Jazz and Cuatro. Reissued by Abeat in 2011 as Visions.	Spotify	Amazon
Udin (Gaia Cuatro)	2008	Abeat Records, AB JZ 054	Asuka Kaneko (violin, voice), Gerardo Di Giusto (piano), Carlos Buschini (electric and acoustic bass), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion)	Recorded, mixed and mastered in March 2006 by Stefano Amerio. Nine tracks including "Dos Lunas", "Habanera" and "Waltz For Camel". Liner notes by Paolo Fresu. Discogs tags it Jazz and Folk, World and Country, style Contemporary Jazz. Reissued on vinyl by Abeat in 2020.	Spotify	Amazon
Haruka (Gaia Cuatro, with Paolo Fresu)	2010	Abeat Records, AB JZ 080	Asuka Kaneko (violin, voice), Gerardo Di Giusto (piano), Carlos Buschini (bass, double bass), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion), Paolo Fresu (trumpet, flugelhorn, featured)	Recorded in July 2009, mixed and mastered in February 2010. Eight tracks including "Mizuho", "Haruka" and "Negras Y Negros". Discogs tags it Jazz and Folk, World and Country, styles Contemporary Jazz and Folk.	Spotify · YouTube	Amazon
Visions (Gaia Cuatro)	2011	Abeat Records	Asuka Kaneko, Gerardo Di Giusto, Carlos Buschini, Tomohiro Yahiro, with Paolo Fresu on a bonus track	Abeat's reissue of the 2006 Gaia album with a bonus live track; reviewed by AllAboutJazz Italy on December 23, 2011. Not listed under the group on Discogs.	Spotify	Amazon
Kaze (Gaia Cuatro)	2015	Abeat Records, AB JZ148	Asuka Kaneko (violin, voice), Gerardo Di Giusto (piano), Carlos Buschini (double bass), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion), Paolo Fresu (trumpet), Solis String Quartet	Nine tracks. Discogs credits Yahiro as composer of "Chicooos" and of the bonus track "Marcha Gaiana". Tagged Jazz, style Contemporary Jazz.	Spotify	Amazon
Lucrecia (Gaia Cuatro, Paolo Fresu)	2019	Abeat Records, ABJZ 211	Asuka Kaneko (violin, vocals), Gerardo Di Giusto (piano), Carlos Buschini (double bass, acoustic bass), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion), Paolo Fresu (trumpet)	Nine tracks including "Iwato", "Blanco" and "Uritorco". Tagged Jazz and Folk, World and Country.	Spotify	Amazon
Udin (Gaia Cuatro, vinyl edition)	2020	Abeat Records, LP, 180 g	As on the 2008 album	Vinyl reissue of the 2008 album.	not found	Amazon
Dos Orientales	2010	Barca Discos, SLC 693	Hugo Fattoruso (piano, accordion, voice, whistle, producer), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion, producer)	Nine tracks: "La Papa", "Desafinado", "Esa Tristeza", "Ichi Ni San Shi", "Piano, Pandeiro E Passarinho", "Milonga De Nagoya", "Dos Orillas", "Sin Nombre - Al Pie De La Letra", "Ten More Miles". Discogs lists the master under 2008; Apple Music dates its digital release November 5, 2010 and files it under Latin Jazz.	Apple Music	Amazon
Orienta (Dos Orientales)	2011	Beans Records, BNSCD-778	Hugo Fattoruso and Tomohiro Yahiro	Nine tracks including "Luces De Tokyo", "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence", "Cabana De Kushiro" and "Aquarela Do Brasil". Discogs tags it Jazz and Latin; Apple Music files it under Latin Jazz.	Apple Music	Amazon
Tercer Viaje (Dos Orientales)	2016	Beans Records, BNSCD-7729	Hugo Fattoruso and Tomohiro Yahiro	Eleven tracks including "Os Garcons", "Metimpar", "Mbira Oriental", "Para Nico Mora" and "Samba De Morales". Tagged Jazz and Latin. Apple Music dates the digital release December 13, 2018.	Apple Music	Amazon
En Vivo En Buenos Aires (Dos Orientales)	2023	Zorn Records, ZRN-01-23	Hugo Fattoruso and Tomohiro Yahiro	Live album; Yahiro is credited on percussion on all six listed sides, from "La Papa" and "Metimpar" to "Para Nico Mora" and "Os Garcons". Tagged Jazz and Latin, style Candombe.	not found	Amazon
Para Nico Mora (Dos Orientales, feat. Hugo Fattoruso and Tomohiro Yahiro), single	2025	KaiYa Project	Hugo Fattoruso and Tomohiro Yahiro	Digital single released May 15, 2025 (per Apple Music); the title is also a track on Tercer Viaje.	not found	not found

Jazz and improvised-music sideman credits

Album	Year	Label	Personnel	Notes
Impact = インパクト (Fumio Itabashi)	1984	Paddle Wheel, K28P-6321	Fumio Itabashi (piano, arranger), Toshiyuki Honda (alto and soprano saxophone), Mikinori Fujiwara and Shuichi Enomoto (tenor saxophone), Shigeharu Mukai and Tadanori Konakawa (trombone), Hitoshi Okano (trumpet), Hiroshi Takashima (guitar), Hiroshi Yoshino and Yasushi Yoneki (bass), Hiro Tsunoda, Shota Koyama and Shuichi Murakami (drums), Masayuki Sayama (synthesizer), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion)	Five tracks: "F1", "Last Summer", "All The Things You Are", "Little Mayu", "Nippon Blues". Tagged Jazz.
Natsu no Tabi (夏の旅) (Naoya Matsuoka)	1984	Warner Bros. Records, M-12517	Naoya Matsuoka (keyboards, producer, arranger), Hideo Saito and Hiroshi Imaizumi (guitar), Getao Takahashi (bass), Noriyuki Hirose (drums), Hiromichi Tsugaki (synthesizer), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion), Joe Kato Group (strings)	Released May 25, 1984. Tagged Jazz and Funk / Soul, styles Fusion, Jazz-Funk, Jazz-Rock and Soul-Jazz.
Japonesia (Shigeharu Mukai, Orissa)	1984	Better Days, YF-7087-BD	Shigeharu Mukai (trombone), Getao Takahashi (bass), Ryojiro Furusawa (drums), June Yamagishi, Shinji Shiotsugu and Takayuki Kato (guitar), Hiromichi Tsugaki (keyboards), Kazuhiro Mishima and Yoichi Hosohata (percussion), Willie Nagasaki (timbales), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion)	Seven tracks. Tagged Jazz and Reggae, styles Fusion, Dub and Reggae.
Free Fight (Sachi Hayasaka & Stir Up!)	1988	Mobys Record, 0007	Sachi Hayasaka (alto and soprano saxophone, producer), Toshiki Nagata (bass), Keiki Midorikawa (cello), Ken Tsunoda (drums, percussion), Naoki Kubojima (piano), Tetsuji Yoshida (trumpet), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion)	Recorded November 1987 and January 1988 in Tokyo. Tagged Jazz, style Free Jazz.
Kinema (Kazutoki Umezu)	1990	NEC Avenue, NACJ-1001	Kazutoki Umezu (saxophone, producer), Tsuneo Imahori (guitar), Kazuto Shimizu (keyboards), Takeharu Hayakawa and Benisuke Sakai (bass), Reichi and Kozo Niida (drums), Isao Miyoshi (guitar), Neko Saito (violin), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion on "Rose De Sahara", "Nishikoigakubo Koushinkyoku" and "Shakushain No Tatakai")	Recorded at GOK Sound Studio, December 1989 and January 1990. Nine tracks. Tagged Jazz, styles Fusion and Jazz-Funk.
Pandora (Kazumi Watanabe, Resonance Vox)	1991	Polydor, 513 123-2	Kazumi Watanabe (guitar, charango, synthesizer, producer), Vagabond Suzuki (bass), Rikiya Higashihara (drums), Zakir Hussain (tabla), Jao Jing Yin (pipa), Yasuhiro Kobayashi (accordion), Asuka Kaneko (violin), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion)	Ten tracks. Discogs lists Yahiro among the members of Resonance Vox, whose own albums appear in the list below. Tagged Jazz.
Multi Venus (Asuka Kaneko)	1992	Roux	Asuka Kaneko (electric violin, violin, viola, vocals), Tsuneo Imahori (guitar), Kiyohiko Semba and Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion), Maceo Parker (alto saxophone), Kazumi Watanabe (acoustic guitar), Akira Sakata (alto saxophone), Fumio Itabashi (piano) and others	A progressive-rock-leaning album; personnel as given in Asuka Kaneko's discography.
2.26 (Sachi Hayasaka & Stir Up!)	1994	Enja Records, CD 8014-2	Sachi Hayasaka (alto and soprano saxophone, producer), Tatsuya Sato (tenor saxophone), Yosuke Yamashita (piano, guest), Toshiki Nagata (bass), Ken Tsunoda (drums), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion)	Live at Buddy, Tokyo, February 26, 1992. Six tracks, among them "Bubble Net Feeding", "Children Children" and "Yellow Monk". Tagged Jazz.
Milagros (Sachi Hayasaka & Stir Up!)	1996	Off Note, on-14	Sachi Hayasaka (alto and soprano saxophone, producer), Toshiki Nagata (bass, producer), Ken Tsunoda (drums), Asuka Kaneko (electric violin, voice), Kyoko Kuroda (piano, accordion), Febian Reza Pane (piano, synthesizer), Tomohiro Yahiro and Yoichi Okabe (percussion)	Recorded June 13, 21, 22 and July 19, 1995. Eight tracks. Tagged Jazz, styles Avant-garde Jazz and Fusion.
Desert In A Hand (Kazutoki Umezu, Shakushain)	1997	Knitting Factory Works, KFW 215	Kazutoki Umezu (reeds, melodica), Isao Miyoshi (guitar), Tsuneo Imahori (guitar, mandolin), Kazuto Shimizu (keyboards and others), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion)	Nine tracks. Tagged Jazz and Rock, style Avantgarde.
Dr. Kanzo Original Soundtrack / Yosuke Yamashita On Cinema (Yosuke Yamashita)	1998	Verve Records, POCJ-1416	Yosuke Yamashita (piano, composer, arranger), Hideaki Mochizuki (acoustic bass), Shota Koyama (drums), Kenta Tsugami (alto saxophone), Dairo Miyamoto (clarinet, bass clarinet), Koichi Matsukaze (flute), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion)	Film score for Shohei Imamura's Dr. Akagi. Twenty tracks. Tagged Jazz and Classical, styles Fusion and Contemporary Jazz.
Nervio = ネルビオ (Nervio)	2002	VEGA Music Entertainment, VGDBRZ0004	Eiji Otogawa (tenor and soprano saxophone), Kenichiro Shinzawa (piano, keyboards), Masatoshi Mizuno (fretless bass), Tappi Iwase (drums, percussion, voice), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion)	Eight tracks. Tagged Jazz, styles Contemporary Jazz and Fusion. Discogs lists Yahiro among the members of Nervio, whose later albums Alma (2003) and Nude Energy (2005) are in the list below.
Mother (Asuka Kaneko)	2002	Universal, UCCS-1009	Asuka Kaneko (violin, voice, producer), Febian Reza Pane (piano, producer), Hiroshi Yoshino (woodbass), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion, co-producer)	Released July 19, 2002; per Asuka Kaneko's discography, tagged Jazz and Folk.
Minga (Sachi Hayasaka)	2003	Tzadik, TZ 7244	Sachi Hayasaka (alto and soprano saxophone, producer), Toshiki Nagata (bass, producer), Natsuki Kido (guitar), Gen Ogimi and Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion), Wagane Ndiaye Rose (sabar)	Recorded November 18 to 20, 2002 at GOK Sound Studio, Tokyo; executive producer John Zorn. Yahiro is also credited as co-producer and on track 5, "Ligeuyou Ndeye Dom", with chorus. Seven tracks. Tagged Jazz and Rock, styles including Jazz-Rock and Contemporary Jazz.
Himawari = ひまわり (Akira Sakata)	2006	Ganbaranai / JCF, GNCD 0001	Akira Sakata (alto and soprano saxophone, clarinet), Hiroshi Yoshino (bass), Febian Reza Pane (piano), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion)	Released April 7, 2006. Eight tracks, among them "Loss Of Love", "Jerry Fish" and "Air On The G String". Tagged Jazz, styles Avant-garde Jazz and Free Jazz.
Shadows (Elan Vital Project)	2011	VEGA Music Entertainment, VGDBRZ-0046	Kazutoki Umezu (clarinet, bass clarinet, alto and soprano saxophone), Masatoshi Mizuno (electric bass), Atsushi Inoue (piano), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion)	Nine tracks including "All Blues", "Freedom Jazz Dance", "Naima" and "Nardis". Tagged Jazz, style Fusion.
Ghost In Saint-Quentin (Yuka Sasaki with Lew Tabackin)	2015	SVAC, SVCA-19	Yuka Sasaki (flute, producer), Lew Tabackin (flute), Takeshi Shibuya (piano), Satoshi Inoue (guitar, music director), Ken Kaneko (bass), Mark Taylor (drums), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion)	Recorded at Sony Music Studios, Tokyo, September 29 and 30, 2014; released March 18, 2015. Eight tracks including "Bags Groove". Tagged Jazz.
The Story Behind (Sumire Kuribayashi)	2018	Somethin' Cool, SCLP-1027	Sumire Kuribayashi (piano), Hideaki Kanazawa and Yuki Ito (bass), Hiro Kimura and Kengo Komae (drums), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion)	Released April 25, 2018; vinyl LP. Tagged Jazz, style Contemporary Jazz.
Hirokazu Yamaguchi's Vortex Box (Hirokazu Yamaguchi's Vortex Box)	2020	Song X Jazz, SONG X 062	Hirokazu Yamaguchi (12-string guitar, producer), Yuichi Terai (saxophone, bass clarinet, contrabass, morin khuur), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion)	Recorded March 26 and 27, 2019 in Tokyo; released July 8, 2020. Eleven tracks. Tagged Jazz.
Windy Island (Spick & Span)	1983	RCA, RPL-8192	Kazuo Yoshida (drums, leader), Benisuke Sakai (bass), Koji Miyatake (guitar), Osamu Kobayashi (keyboards), Tamami Koyake (flute), Tomohiro Yahiro (percussion)	His earliest credit on Discogs. Tagged Jazz and Latin, styles Fusion, Jazz-Funk, Bossanova and Samba.

Other appearances and session credits

Every remaining release on Discogs's list for Yahiro, in chronological order. Discogs lists nearly all of them as appearances; the majority are pop, rock, soundtrack or world-music records, which is why this list does not read as a jazz discography. Albums, singles, compilations and repeat issues are all counted.

1985: Various, Seaside Memories - Poesy Of The Island (TDK Records)
1985: Spick & Span = スピック＆スパン, Twilight In Leblon = レブロンの夕暮れ (Electric Bird)
1985: S-Ken, Jungle・Da
1985: Coconut Crew = ココナツ・クルー, Summer Breeze = サマー・ブリーズ
1986: Titi-Caca = チチカカ, Cry (Point A)
1986: スピックス = Spics, マリブ・ダンス = Malibu Dance
1986: Nara Leão, Garota De Ipanema
1986: Acoustic Club, 夢の城
1987: Acoustic Club, Fairy Ring
1987: S-Ken & Hot Bomboms, Pa-Pue-Be
1987: Tomatos, Rock-A-Blue Beat
1987: Jagatara, ニセ予言者ども
1987: ななきさとえ, パンドラの呪文
1988: Satoshi Miyahara, Norwegian Wood (CBS/Sony)
1988: S-Ken & Hot Bomboms, 1000NOME (Polydor)
1988: M.E.T.A., M.E.T.A. Physics = メタフィジックス
1988: Himuro Kyosuke, Flowers For Algernon
1988: Shigeru Izumiya, Izumiya・Self Covers
1988: Taeko Onuki, Purissima
1988: Hiroki Miyano, D / I / V / E / R / G / E
1988: Hiroko Yakushimaru = 薬師丸ひろ子, Sincerely Yours = シンシアリー・ユアーズ
1988: Acoustic Club, IV - Aquascape
1988: S-Ken & Hot Bomboms, 1000NOME
1989: Shigeru Izumiya, 90's バラッド = 90's Ballad (Invitation)
1989: Spick & Span, Tropical Connection (NEC Avenue)
1989: Spick & Span, Tropical Connection (NEC Avenue)
1989: Acoustic Club, Collage (MELDAC)
1989: Todd Garfinkle, Further Attempts
1989: Jagatara, それから
1989: 郷ひろみ, Driving Force
1990: Newest Model, 乳母車と棺桶 (Fruitgum Company, Soul Flower, Soul Flower Records)
1990: Newest Model, 杓子定木 (Soul Flower, Soul Flower Records, Fruitgum Company)
1990: Seigen Ono, NekonoTopia NekonoMania
1990: The Newest Model, Crossbreed Park
1991: Mescaline Drive, Ideology Cooking (Fruitgum Company, Soul Flower Records)
1991: Hiroshi Tamaki, Stratred (Midi Inc.)
1991: Kyoko Koizumi, Oto Remix (Victor)
1991: Newest Model, もっともそうな2人の沸点 The Boiling Point In Plausible Two's Communication (Soul Flower, King Records, Fruitgum Company, Soul Flower Records)
1991: Itaya Hiroshi & Guilty Physic, Shake You Up (Aketa's Disk, Aketa's Disk)
1991: Shuichi Enomoto Quartet, Malam · Saya (Aketa's Disk)
1991: Acoustic Club, My Funny Valentine (MELDAC)
1991: Yuko Fukushima, 時の記憶 = Toki No Kioku (Virgin Japan)
1991: 林マヤ, MAYA (Midi Inc.)
1991: 中村善郎, Esquina = 街角 (Portazul)
1991: Toshihiro Nakanishi, Walkin' In Paris (For Life Records)
1991: Kyoko Koizumi, Afropia
1991: Tomatos, Step By Step
1992: Yann Tomita, Music For Astro Age (Sony)
1992: 友部正人, 遠い国の日時計 (Midi Inc.)
1992: Aska Kaneko, Multi Venus (Roux)
1992: Yoshitaka Minami, New Standard (Sony)
1992: Acoustic Club, Standard Club (MELDAC)
1992: シヤクシヤイン, 大雑把 = Ohzappa
1993: Jagatara, JagataraなきJagatara 1993.2.7 (Psy-cho Music)
1993: Kusu Kusu, Jambo [Best Of Kusu Kusu] (Gorilland Records, Polystar)
1993: Moshiri, Shir Kor Kamuy = Gods Of The Earth = 大地の神々 (Moshiri Kikaku)
1993: Kasutera = カステラ, Another World = 新世界 (Sony Records)
1993: Moshiri, Atuy Kor Kamuy = Gods Of The Oceans = 海の神々 (Moshiri Kikaku)
1993: Yoshiro Nakamura, Me Diga Por Favor (Seven Seas)
1993: The Jazz Funk Masters Featuring Louis Johnson, Mo' (Better) Funk
1993: Spick & Span, Chuva No Brasil
1993: Misato, Big Wave
1993: Resonance Vox, Resonance Vox
1994: Kuboh Ruriko, Colors (Epic)
1994: Plagues, Ride,Ride,Ride (Garland)
1994: ピラニアンズ, サボテンマン (Pony Canyon)
1994: Plagues, Ride,Ride,Ride (Garland)
1994: Osamu Ishida, Mouth & Fingers
1994: Various, Close To You
1994: Soul Flower Union = ソウル・フラワー・ユニオン, Watatumi Yamatumi = ワタツミ・ヤマツミ
1994: Resonance Vox, 自業自得 (Live Recordings)
1995: Febian Reza Pane, Dreams Of Ganesha (Denon)
1995: Takamasa Segi, Ilusion (Alfa)
1995: Lä-Ppisch = レピッシュ, ポルノポルノ (Speedstar)
1995: Bistro Tempo, Musette? ... Chouette!! (Pony Canyon)
1995: Doopees, Doopee Time
1995: 黃鶯鶯, 春光
1996: Be-B, III (Tee²)
1996: Midori Hara, Worst 12 In Heaven (Triad)
1996: Takamasa Segi, Nieve~雪の扉 (Polystar Co.,Ltd.)
1996: Takamasa Segi, Nieve~雪の扉 (Polystar Co.,Ltd.)
1996: Spick & Span, Sambra Sombra
1996: Taeko Onuki, Pure Acoustic
1997: Hiroki Miyano, Crystallized (Music Garden)
1997: Epo, 聖き彼の人 ~~Fatalis Vir~~ / Winter Lovers (Kitty Records)
1997: No Artist, Bass Spin Vol.4 - メチャ！Bassイケてるッ〜ウインター・スペシャル〜 (EastWest Japan)
1997: Osamu Ishida, Soul Fingers (Incredible Guitar Works Of Osamu Ishida) (Meldac)
1997: Säju, Säju
1997: Yoshida Minako, Spell
1998: Keiko Hatanaka, Philomēla (Ta Ra Ga)
1998: Coba, Mania Coba 2 (Eastworld)
1998: Hirofumi Okamoto, Jawango (P-Vine Non Stop)
1998: Kotobuki, Meets God Mountain (Compozila)
1998: Epo, Soul Kitchen (Kitty Records)
1998: 村上"ポンタ"秀一, Welcome To My Life
1999: Jagatara, 裸の王様 - The Naked King
1999: Monday Michiru, Optimista
2000: Yamazaki Masayoshi, 明日の風 (Polydor)
2000: Various, King Twin Best Series: Bossa Nova (King Records)
2000: Jorge Cumbo, Tokyo Live 1999 (Sistema Records)
2000: Ikuko Kawai, The Red Violin (Victor, Amelos)
2000: Aiko, 桜の木の下
2000: Sachi Hayasaka & Stir Up!, Straight To The Core
2001: Bonnie Pink, Thinking Of You (EastWest Japan)
2001: Seigen Ono, Saidera Paradiso (Saidera Records)
2001: Hitoshi Hamada, Fox Dance (Cloud 9)
2001: Junko Ochi, Jesse (Village Records)
2001: Namjiliin Norovbanzad = ナムジリーン・ノロヴバンザド, Mongolia = モンゴル　草原の歌声 (JVC)
2001: Yoshitaka Minami, Nude Voice (JVC)
2001: Kazumi Watanabe, Beyond The Infinite
2002: Ritsuco Endo with FRV!, Kazoku = 家族 (Waseda Laboratory Series)
2002: 元ちとせ, ハイヌミカゼ
2002: 井上陽水, カシス
2003: 中村善郎, 中村善郎ベスト ~~On Portazul Years~~ (Jroom Jazz)
2003: Nervio, Alma (VEGA Music Entertainment)
2003: Karen, Bossa Do Mar
2004: 柴草玲, 会話 (Genesis World)
2004: Two Haze, Too
2005: Palhaço With Friends, Griot (Sakura Records, Ohrai Records)
2005: Nervio, Nude Energy (VEGA Music Entertainment)
2005: Spick & Span, Tudo Azul (おもちゃ工房)
2005: Seigen Ono, Comme Des Garçons
2005: Kazumi et Maïa, L'Amitié
2006: Bonnie Pink, Every Single Day - Complete Bonnie Pink (1995 - 2006)
2007: Castle In The Air, Castle In The Air (Silent)
2008: Grace Mahya, The Girl From Ipanema
2010: Tsuneo Imahori, Trigun - Badlands Rumble - O.S.T. (Flying Dog)
2011: Carla Marciano / Gaia Quatro / Steveland / Giuliana Soscia & Pino Jodice / Bluetime 4ET, LuccaJazz Donna - Anno 2010 Vol. I (Girasuoni)
2011: Soul Flower Union, Soul Flower Box 1993-1999 (CS Record, Soul Flower)
2012: Yuka Sasaki, Dancers In Love (What'sNew Records)
2014: Yuka Sasaki, A Flower On The Lake (SVAC Co., Ltd.)
2016: Resonance Vox, O-X-O
2017: S-Ken, Tequila The Ripper (Anaked.Records)
2017: Various, Jazz 100年 Part3 Jazz Vocal Collection 31 Antônio Carlos Jobim (Universal Music)
2017: Yuka Sasaki, Reminiscenza (SVAC Co., Ltd.)
2019: Jagatara2020, 虹色のファンファーレ
2021: Jagatara2020, 虹色のファンファーレ (P-Vine Records)
2021: Jagatara, ナンのこっちゃい History Of Jagatara Special Edition
2023: Gabriela Beltramino & Shin Sasakubo, Musgo En La Piedra (Not On Label (Gabriela Beltramino Self-released))
2024: Jaqee Nakiri, Kokoo Girl
2025: Yasuko Agawa = 阿川泰子, Light Mellow Deluxe (Victor)
n.d.: 高野太郎, 音もなく降る雨 = Lluvia De Silencio (Candelaria)
n.d.: Shinichi Kato, You Can Touch My Heartstrings (NAIE Records)

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Personnel & Collaborations

Yosuke Yamashita - pianist and the second member of Hakkohzan (2002). Yahiro is also on percussion on Yamashita's soundtrack album Dr. Kanzo (Verve, 1998), and both are credited on Hayasaka's 2.26 (1994), on which Yamashita guests.
Shigeharu Mukai - trombonist and the third member of Hakkohzan. Both are credited on Fumio Itabashi's Impact (1984), and Yahiro plays percussion on Mukai's Japonesia (1984).
Fumio Itabashi - pianist, his duo partner on Jigazo: Sakuhin 1 (1993) and the leader of Impact (1984), on which Yahiro plays percussion.
Sachi Hayasaka - alto and soprano saxophonist. Yahiro is on Free Fight (1988), 2.26 (1994), Milagros (1996) and Minga (2003), and was a founding member of Minga in 2002, where Discogs also credits him as co-producer.
Toshiki Nagata - bassist on Free Fight, 2.26, Milagros, Minga and Yahiro's own Os Amarelos (2004).
Asuka Kaneko - violinist and his bandmate in Gaia Cuatro, and also on Hayasaka's Milagros, Kazumi Watanabe's Pandora and her own Multi Venus (1992) and Mother (2002), on which Yahiro plays.
Paolo Fresu - trumpeter, guest on Gaia Cuatro's Haruka, Kaze and Lucrecia, and author of the liner notes to Udin.
Kazutoki Umezu - saxophonist; Yahiro plays percussion on his Kinema (1990), on the Umezu and Shakushain album Desert in a Hand (1997) and on the Elan Vital Project's Shadows (2011), on which Umezu plays clarinet and saxophones.
Kazumi Watanabe - guitarist, leader of Pandora (Polydor, 1991), on which Yahiro plays percussion.
Akira Sakata - saxophonist, leader of Himawari (2006), with Yahiro on percussion.
Naoya Matsuoka - keyboardist, leader of Natsu no Tabi (1984), with Yahiro on percussion.
Toshiyuki Honda - alto and soprano saxophonist on Impact (1984), the same record as Yahiro.
Lew Tabackin - flutist, special guest on Yuka Sasaki's Ghost in Saint-Quentin (2015), on which Yahiro plays percussion.
Hugo Fattoruso - the Uruguayan keyboardist and his partner in Dos Orientales.
Gerardo Di Giusto and Carlos "El Tero" Buschini - the Argentine pianist and bassist of Gaia Cuatro.
Gen Ogimi and Wagane Ndiaye Rose - his fellow percussionist and the sabar master in Hayasaka's Minga.
Kyoko Kuroda - pianist and accordionist on Milagros (Off Note, 1996), on which Yahiro plays percussion; her biography also records a duo performance with him at the Nuremberg festival in 1992.
Ken Tsunoda - drummer beside Yahiro on Free Fight (1988), 2.26 (1994) and Milagros (1996), the Stir Up! albums on which Yahiro plays percussion.