Akira Miyazawa

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Akira Miyazawa ( Japanese 宮 沢 昭 , Miyazawa Akira ; born December 6, 1927 in Matsumoto , Nagano Prefecture ; † July 6, 2000 ) was a Japanese jazz musician ( alto , tenor , soprano saxophone , clarinet , also flute , piccolo ).

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Akira Miyazawa played in the early 1950s in the Toshiko Akiyoshi sextet, with which the first recordings were made ( The Historic Mocambo Session '54 , among others with Sadao Watanabe ). In 1956 he was a member of the All-Star Formation of the Japanese Swing Journal ; in the early 1960s he was a member of the Modern Jazz All Stars of Japan . In 1962 he took for King u. a. with Masahiko Satoh (piano), Masanaga Harada (bass) and Kanji Harada (drums) on a self-titled debut album. In the following years he worked a. a. with George Kawaguchi and Hideo Shiraki .

Since then he has worked with his own formations with which he recorded a number of LPs such as Now's the Time (1967), Musical Play in Jazz (1968, with Masahiko Togashi ) and Four Units (1969, with Masahiko Satoh, Yasuo Arakawa ). In 1981 the live album Piccolo was created (with Masahiko Satoh, Nobuyoshi Ino or Kunimitsu Inaba and Motohiko Hino ), followed by On Green Dolphin Street (1982) and Noyuri (1991, with Takeshi Shibuya ).

He also played with the Toshiko Mariano Sextet (directed by Toshiko Akiyoshi and Charlie Mariano ), as well as with Masao Yagi , Hiroshi Matsumoto , Shungo Sawada , Hampton Hawes (1968), Terumasa Hino and Helen Merrill . 1976/1977 he was involved in seven albums of the formation Jazz Minus One (JMO). In the 1970s to 1990s, he was still involved in the recordings of Mari Nakamoto , Toshio Oida , Shun Sakai , Masao Yagi, Tadao Hayashi , Bingo Miki , Hideko Okiyama , Ichiro Masuda / Teddy Wilson and Mal Waldron . In the field of jazz he was involved in 66 recording sessions between 1954 and 1991.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 13, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Miyazawa, Akira
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 宮 沢 昭 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Matsumoto
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 2000