Hideo Shiraki

Hideo Shiraki , ( Jap. 白木秀雄 , Shiraki Hideo ; * 1. January 1933 in Kanda-Matsueda-chō, Kanda , Tokyo city (today Chiyoda , Tokyo Prefecture ), † 31 August 1972 ) was a Japanese jazz - drummer and bandleader .

Shiraki began his career in the 1950s as a musician under the influence of US soldiers stationed in Japan in the modern jazz idiom. He studied percussion at the Tokyo Music Academy ; he also played with Masashi Nagao's Blue Coats . From 1959 to 1963 he was married to Yaeko Mizutani II . In the late 1950s and early 1960s he worked with his own quintet, in which musicians such as Hidehiko Matsumoto , Terumasa Hino and Yuzuru Sera played hardbop . With the successful band in Japan, he put a. a. the album In Fiesta (Teichiku 1961), which contained a cover version of Benny Golson's standard Five Spot After Dark . In 1965 he opened himself up to ethno-jazz when he worked with Sakura Sakura and koto players. In November 1965, at the invitation of Joachim-Ernst Berendt, he performed at the Berlin Jazz Days , where he fused contemporary jazz with traditional Japanese music. Shiraki also worked with Toshiko Akiyoshi ( Toshiko Meets Her Old Pals , 1961). He died in 1972 from sleeping pills.

Discographic notes

• Hideo Shiraki Quintet Featuring Terumasa Hino & Takeru Muraoka - Japan Meets Jazz, Hideo Shiraki Quintet In Berlin ( MPS 1970)

Web links

• Portrait at Jazz.com
• Portrait of Marc Myers (2015)
• Hideo Shiraki at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 日本 の ジ ャ ズ (JAZZ IN JAPAN) - 白木 秀雄 (HIDEO SHIRAKI) / プ レ イ ズ ・ ボ ッ サ ・ ノ バ . (No longer available online.) Catfish Records, archived from the original on July 30, 2017 ; Retrieved December 8, 2011 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.