1943 | Born at Tsurumi, Yokohama |
1953 | Joined marching drums and fife band |
1957 | Started to play as band with friends and like to play many instruments |
1960 | Decided to play as professional musician |
1965 | Started professional carrier |
1967 | Samurais Europe Tour for one year and half |
1969 | Started free style drumming |
1970 | Duo with Mototeru Takagi |
1971 | Joined Chicago A.A.C.M. |
1972 - 73 | Stayed at Paris and played with many musicians at Europe |
1973 | Indonesia Tour |
1974 | Brazil Tour |
1975 | Play with own group Sabu Unit |
1976 - 78 | Duo with Kaoru Abe - it was regarded at the time the most power concentration performance |
1979 | Tour to Africa, Middle and Near East, India, Nepal and Burma |
1985 - current | Inviting many musicians to play with in Japan like Misha Mengelberg, Wadada Leo Smith, Derek Bailey, Paul Rutherford, Sunny Murray and John Russell |
1987 | Met the founder of Watazumido, a master of life |
1991 - 92 | Duo with Takehisa Kosugi |
2001 | Played with Fred Frith at San Francisco
Tour to Cuba
Solo and Duo with Wadada Leo Smith at California Institute of Art |
2004 | Tour to Mongolia, Korea, Lithuania and Russia |
2005 | Duo with Yuji Takahashi
Sabu Toyozumi Project at Mopomoso Fes at London |
2006 | Tour to Korea |
2007 | Invited to FETE QUAQUA 2007 at London MOPOMOSOplayed 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 |
