Hiroshi Murakami
Hiroshi Murakami ( Japanese 村上 寛 , Murakami Hiroshi ; born March 14, 1948 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz musician (drums).
Hiroshi Murakami began his career in 1967 in the trio of Takehiro Honda , in the following years in the bands of Masabumi Kikuchi and Sadao Watanabe . As a member of Kikuchi's trio with Gary Peacock , the first recordings were made in 1970 ( Eastward , CBS / SONY). In the 1970s he also took part in recordings by Hozan Yamamoto , Kimiko Kasai / Mal Waldron , Joe Henderson / Kikuchi Hino , Johnny Hartman , Ann Burton , Tsuyoshi Yamamoto , Sadayasu Fujii , Kunihiko Sugano , Yūji Imamura and Minami Yasuda .
In 1978 Murakami played his debut album Dancing Sphinx with Kohsuke Mine , Masanro Sasaji , Mikio Masuda and Tsutomu Okada ; In the same year he founded the fusion band Native Son with Honda and Kohsuke Mine , of which he was a member until 1985. In the late 1980s he formed the formation Four Sounds with Kohsuke Mine, Fumio Itabashi and Nobuyoshi Ino . From the 1990s he still played with Shigeharu Mukai and Tsutomu Okada. In the field of jazz he was involved in 53 recording sessions between 1970 and 2015, most recently with the singer Mariko Kajiwara.
Web links
- Web presence
- Hiroshi Murakami at Discogs (English)
- Hiroshi Murakami at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Murakami, Hiroshi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 村上 寛 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo prefecture |