Takeo Moriyama

Takeo Moriyama (森山 威男, Moriyama Takeo, born January 27, 1945 in Katsunuma (present Kōshū) in Yamanashi Prefecture) is a Japanese jazz drummer.

Moriyama played piano as a child before switching to drums in his late teens.

He then attended the Tokyo University of the Arts, taking a degree in percussion performance.

He moved to Nagoya in 1977 and began leading his own groups.

[1] In addition to Yamashita he has performed or recorded with Aki Takase, Akira Miyazawa, Fumio Itabashi, Masahiko Satoh, Peter Brötzmann, Nobuyoshi Ino, Takehiro Honda, and Manfred Schoof.