1943 | Born in Tsurumi, Yokohama |
1953 | Joined drum and fife marching band |
1957 | Started to play in a band with friends and liked to play many instruments |
1960 | Decided to play as professional musician |
1965 | Started professional career |
1967 | Joined rock group The Samurais and toured Europe for one and a half years |
1969 | Began playing free improvisation with Motoharu Yoshizawa and Masayuke ‘Jojo’ Takayanagi in New Direction and also in duo with Mototeru Takagi |
1971 | Joined Chicago A.A.C.M. |
1972 - 73 | Stayed in Paris and played with many European musicians including Anthony Braxton’s Creative Orchestra and the Alan Shorter trio and the Bobby Few trio. Joined the group Emergency |
1974 | Travelled to various countries including Brazil and Indonesia. |
1975 | Formed own group Sabu Unit to explore his musical ideas |
1976 - 78 | Played in the duo Overhang Party with Kaoru Abe up until Abe’s death. -The duo was regarded at the time as the most powerful and concentrated music in Japan |
1979 | After an appearance at the Moers Jazz festival with the trio FMT there followed an extensive period of travel to Africa, Middle and Near East, India, Nepal, Thailand, The Philippines and Burma |
1983 | Appearance at festival in Wuppertal with butho master Kazuo Ohno |
1986 | European tour with Johannes Bauer, Peter Brotzmann and Hans Reichel |
1988 | Actuelle Music festival Victoriaville, Canada with Fred van Hove and Wadada Leo Smith |
1985 - current | Inviting many musicians to play with in Japan including Misha Mengelberg, Derek Bailey, Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Rutherford, Sunny Murray and John Russell |
1987 | Met the founder of Watazumido, a master of life |
1989 | Festival WIM at Antwarpen- Belgium with Derek Bailey and Louis Sclavis |
1991 - 92 | Duo with Takehisa Kosugi |
2001 | Visit to Cuba
Solo and Duo with Wadada Leo Smith at California Institute of Art |
2004 | Travel to Mongolia and tours of Korea |
2005 | Duo with Yuji Takahashi
Sabu Toyozumi Project for Mopomoso in London playing with John Russell(g), Evan Parker(ts,ss), Lol Coxhill(ss), Paul Rutherford(tb), Phil Minton(vo), Marcio Mattos(vlc), John Edwards(b), Roger Turner(perc), Stefan Keune(ss), Steve Beresford(electronics), John Butcher(ts,ss), Phil Wachsmann(vl), Chris Burn(p,tp), Terry Day(poetry,bamboo reeds), Veryan Weston(pipeorgan)
Tour to LITHUANIA and RUSSIA |
2007 | Invited to FETE QUAQUA 2007 in London for MOPOMOSO and playing with Lol Coxhill,Harri Sjostrom, John Butcher, Paul Rutherford, Satoko Fukuda, Phil Wachsmann, Marcio Mattos, Roger Turner, Steve Beresford, Ashley Wales, Veryan Weston, John Russell, Ute Wasserman |
2008 | Performance and broadcast with the European Contemporary Improvisation Orchestra in Oulu Finland
Festival INSTAL Glasgow SCOTLAND |
2009 and 2010 | again at Fete Quaqua for Mopomoso |
2010 | Tour to TAIWAN THE PHILIPPINES and HONG KONG |
2011 | Participant in Sons et Libre festival Brussells and Wells, Austria with P.Brotzmann, Okkyung Lee, J.Bauer and Jason Adasiewicz
Cafe Oto, London with Evan Parker, Adam Linson and John Russell
Tour to THE PHILIPPINES and FESTIVAL DE IMPROVISATION Sao Paulo- Bazil |
2012 | Tour to CHILE |
