This from Night After Night Blog:

The downtown New York jazz scene lost one of its busiest, most creative souls last weekend when percussionist Take Toriyama
passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. We received the sad news late
this afternoon in an e-mail from Michaël Attias, curator of the
excellent weekly series "Night of the Ravished Limbs" at Barbès in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Born in the small town of Chiba, Japan, Takeaki Toriyama found early
success playing in a popular Japanese rock band. In search of something
more musically satisfying, he came to the U.S. in 1993 to study at the
Berklee College of Music. Toriyama arrived in Brooklyn in 2000, and
quickly established himself as one of the scene’s most promising
newcomers. Some weeks it seemed that he was practically the house
drummer at Barbès, one of the city’s most vital music venues.