Harumi Kaneko

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Harumi Kaneko ( Japanese 金子 晴美 , Kaneko Harumi ; born January 19, 1950 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz singer who was particularly successful in the 1980s.

Harumi Kaneko was the band vocalist of the Storyville Dandies septet in the late 1970s, with whom she performed at the St. Louis Ragtime Festival in 1978 . The following year, during a stay in New York , the album I Love New York was created , on which George Young (ts), Dave Samuels , Hank Jones , Ron Carter or Steve Gilmore , Harry Leahey , Grady Tate or Bill Goodwin , Armen Halburian and Bob Dorough (duo in "How About You") performed. After the live album New York State of Mind ( Philips , 1980, among others with Kunimitsu Inaba and the arranger Norio Maeda ) she recorded the album The Name Is Harumi in Tokyo in 1982 , accompanied by Richie Cole , Hiromasa Suzuki , Kiyoshi Sugimoto , Nobuyoshi Ino and Motohiko Hino .

After the productions Special Menu (1983), My Little Dream (1985) and Tristeza (1986) she recorded the album I'm Walkin ' for EmArcy in Englewood Cliffs in the studio of Rudy Van Gelder ; Cedar Walton , Gene Bertoncini and Eric Gale , Grady Tate and Lewis Nash played in the studio band around Ron Carter . In 1990 she played My Romance in New York with the all-star formation Newport Jazz Festival All Stars ( Warren Vaché , Randy Sandke , Norris Turney , Lew Tabackin , George Wein , Howard Alden , Eddie Jones , Oliver Jackson ) , and in 1992 another one Album Try to Remember (with Fred Hersch (who also wrote the arrangements), Scott Colley , Tom Rainey and Toots Thielemans ). In the field of jazz, she was involved in 19 recording sessions between 1978 and 1992. Her repertoire consisted mostly of songs from the Great American Songbook , Broadway songs, and jazz standards . Her last album When the Meadow Was Blooming (with Hiromu Aoki, Masao Issima and Grady Tate) was released in 2000.

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  1. ↑ Cast 1978: Akira Nakano (tp), Hideaki Machino (tb), Taiichiro Yoshimoto (cl), Masahiko Shibata (ts), Shoji Fujimori (p), Akira Tsumura (bj), Shoichi Kaneko (b) and Haruo Sekiguchi
  2. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 24, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Kaneko, Harumi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 金子 晴美 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo prefecture