Ichirō Onoe

Ichirō Onoe ( Japanese 尾上一朗 , Onoe Ichirō ; * 1957 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz musician ( drums ).

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Ichirō Onoe studied drums at Berklee College of Music in Boston; there were also recordings with the fusion guitarist Alex Merck . He then worked in the American jazz scene, a. a. with Bobby Few , Ricky Ford , Frank Lacy , Peter King , Andy Narell , Manolo Badrena , Nick Decaro , Norman Simmons , Makoto Ozone , Ron Carter , as well as accompanying musicians with singers Yasuko Agawa and Joe Lee Wilson . In the mid-1990s he played in Japan with Tatsuya Sato , Chiaki Ogasawara , Yuichi Ohtsuka , and later in the Kenichi Tsunoda Big Band , before moving to France, where he has lived ever since. There he played u. a. with Jacques Pellen , Bruno Angelini / Riccardo Del Fra , with Philippe Le Baraillec ( Invisible Wound , Involved ), in the Idris Ackamoor Paris Quartet ( The Periphery of the Periphery (2014), with Rasul Siddik ) and with Bobby Few. He also accompanied the singers Mina Agossi , Fredrika Stahl and Jane Birkin . In the field of jazz, he was involved in 18 recording sessions between 1983 and 2011, according to Tom Lord . In 2014 he presented his debut album Wind Child (Promised Land), which he recorded with his quartet, which includes Mátyás Szandai (bass), Ludovic Allainmat (piano) and Geoffrey Secco (tenor saxophone); The album Miyabi followed in 2018 with the same line-up .

personal data
SURNAME	Onoe, Ichirō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	尾上一朗 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese jazz musician (drums)
DATE OF BIRTH	1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tokyo prefecture