Masaya Yamaguchi (born July 18, 1970) is a guitarist and educator residing in Manhattan, New York City.
He became the first Japanese person to complete the master's program in Jazz Performance at City College of New York (M.A.
[4] His representative work, The Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales was reviewed by John Kuzmich (senior columnist of Jazz Education Journal, International Association for Jazz Education) as "It's worth mentioning that this book comprehensively covers all theoretical possibilities in constructing scales...Take this Thesaurus Scales seriously, you will not be disappointed in the options available for jazz improvisation.
"[5] "The Subsets of Limited Transposition" (which takes Olivier Messiaen's Modes of limited transposition and updates it) and "Appendix: Scales for Jazz Improvisation" in The Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales are very helpful to organize musician's mind and ear.
"The Subsets of Limited Transposition" was introduced in The Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales,[6] "Symmetrical Scales for Jazz Improvisation" [7] and his academic article, "A Creative Approach to Multi-Tonic Changes: Beyond Coltrane's Harmonic Formula (Annual Review of Jazz Studies 12, 2002).