Tetsu Saitoh

Tetsu Saito (齋藤 徹 , Saitō Tetsu, Tokyo, Japan, October 27, 1955 - May 19, 2018 ) was a Japanese double bass player, active in the field of tango, jazz and new improvisational music. He was involved in dance, Butoh, theatre, fine arts, visual arts, poetry, calligraphy, traditional Japanese music, court music, Noh theatre, classical and contemporary music, tango, jazz, improvised music, Korean and Asian shamanism. In 1986, Saitoh began playing tango music. In the same year, he also assumed musical directorship of theatre group TAO.