Keizō Inoue

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Keizō Inoue , also Keizou Inoue , ( Japanese 井上 敬 三 , actually 井上 慶 三 , Inoue Keizō , born November 3, 1922 in Osaka Prefecture ; † January 15, 2002 ) was a Japanese jazz and improvisation musician ( alto and soprano saxophone , clarinet ).

Live and act

Keizō Inoue played the clarinet in the school band and was also a member of the Toyama military band during World War II. After the end of the war he appeared in American troop casinos in Hiroshima; from 1945 he was also a member of the Chugoku Hoso Orchestra. He studied at Hiroshima University and the Elizabeth College of Music . After studying free jazz , he began working as a professional musician in 1974. In 1975 he presented his debut album Intimate (Columbia), which was created with Kazumi Watanabe , Ryūichi Sakamoto , Shūichi Murakami and Akira Sakata . In 1977 he recorded a live album with Kaoru Abe and Tatsuya Nakamura ( Live at八 王子 ア ロ ー ン, DIW ).

In the 1970s Inoue was also a member of the improvisation band New Jazz Syndicate , with which three albums were created in 1977. After studying in the United States, he performed at international jazz festivals (with Kent Carter , Oliver Johnson and Takashi Kako , among others ); In 1981 he was a guest at the Moers Festival as a soloist. This also resulted in recordings with Paul Lovens and Günter Christmann ( Keizo in Moers '81 , Trio Records).

In June 1984 he performed with the East Asia Orchestra on the Berlin Jazz Stage ; in the same year he released the album Boys, Be Ambitious! on which Ichiko Hashimoto , Tamio Kawabata , Kiyohiko Semba and Kazumi Watanabe contributed. In the 1990s he played a. a. still with Shoji Hano in the Poly Breath Percussion Band and (at the opening of the Panasonic Center in Tokyo) with the French band Urban Sax. In Russia he performed in 1992 in Vladivostok with Butch Morris and Barre Phillips . In 1993 he improvised with Derek Bailey ; In 1996 he toured Germany and Japan with Lee Konitz .

In the field of jazz he was Discogs According participated in 15 recording sessions, most recently in 1997 in a duo with drummer Shoji Hano ( Still Create: Jazz Live at Kuku ). Ryuichi Sakamoto interpreted his composition MWSIK Part 1 on his album Favorite Visions in 1983 ; Keizo Inoue is also involved as an interpreter on Sakamoto's album Intimate (1999).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 井上 敬 三 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved July 8, 2017 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ In Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 5, 2017) only nine shots from 1977 to 1994 are listed, most recently with Fumio Itabashi and Kazumi Watanabe.
  3. ↑ Intimate (1999) at Allmusic (English)
personal data
SURNAME Inoue, Keizo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Inoue, Keizou; 井上 敬 三 (Japanese, stage name); 井上 慶 三 (Japanese, real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz and improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Osaka prefecture
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 2002