Atsumasa Nakabayashi
Atsumasa Nakabayashi ( Jap. 中林淳真 , Nakabayashi Atsumasa * 1927 ) is a Japanese guitarist, in addition to the classic in which folk - jazz - and popular music actuated.
Atsumasa Nakabayashi had music lessons with Yasumasa Obara , while on a stay in Spain with Narciso Yepes and Jose Luis Gonzalez. In 1958 he was a finalist at the International Guitar Competition in Tokyo; the Spanish ambassador gave him another award. In 1964 he appeared as the first Japanese guitarist in New York's Carnegie Hall ; At the invitation of the Cuban Ministry of Culture, he toured Cuba and gave concerts in Havana and Santiago de Cuba . In the mid-1960s he recorded a single album with film music themes ( 映 画 音 楽 ギ タ ー 名 演 ベ ス ト 20 , Music Graph) such as Orfeu Negro or I Could Have Danced All Night (from My Fair Lady ); followed by the easy listening album Nihon no Melody ( 日本 の メ ロ デ ィ ) on Denon. In 1974 he presented the folk album Nihon no Kokoro ( 日本 の 心 , Columbia) with guitarist Sonko Mayu ; In 1979 he recorded the jazz album Rhapsody in Japan (Yupiteru), on which Toshiyuki Honda (sop, as, fl, arr), Masahiro Sayama (keyboards, synt), Minoru Akiyama , Akira Wada (g), Ken Watanabe (el-b ) and Toshiro Ono participated. In 1984 he won the first Morishige Takei composition competition for his suite Dance No. 1 excellent.
Web links
- portrait
- Atsumasa Nakabayashi at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 19, 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nakabayashi, Atsumasa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 中 林 淳 真 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1927 |