Masahiro Sayama

Masahiro Sayama (佐山雅弘, Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, November 26, 1953 - November 14, 2018) was a Japanese jazz pianist and composer. He also made video game soundtracks. Sayama began playing piano as a child and became interested in jazz after seeing the film The Glenn Miller Story. He studied music at Kunitachi College of Music and began playing jazz professionally in the early 1970s, working with Toshiyuki Honda, Shigeharu Mukai, and Kazunori Takeda.