Masaru Imada

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Masaru Imada ( Japanese 今 田 勝 , Imada Masaru ; born March 21, 1932 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz pianist and band leader .

Live and act

Imada received classical piano training from private tutors and led student jazz bands while studying at Meiji University . After a year in business, he preferred to work as a professional musician. From 1953 he was a member of the band of Eiji Kitamura . From 1964 he had his own trio; first recordings were made in 1967 with Tadayuki Harada . In 1970 he recorded the album Now! With saxophonist Ichiro Mimori , bassist Takashi Mizuhashi and drummer Masahiko Ozu . (Japanese Maki , Three Blind Mice ). A series of solo ( Poppy , 1973) and trio productions (with Isoo Fukui , Tetsujiro Obara , Masahiko Ozu) and guest soloists such as Shigeko Toya (1982), Kenji Mori ( Yokohama Concert , 1974), Kazumi Watanabe ( Green Caterpillar 1975), George Mraz ( Alone Together 1977), Kenji Kohsei ( All of Glow , 1978) as well as Shigeharu Mukai and Seiichi Nakamura on the album Seeking Blue (1978) and Randy and Michael Brecker ( Carnival , 1981). From the 1970s he also worked with Maki Asakawa , Hiroshi Matsumoto , Takeshi Inomata , Sunao Wada , Ayako Hosokawa , Bingo Miki , Eiji Nakamura .

In the late 1970s he was a member of the Formation Tea and Company. In the 1980s he worked in New York and Tokyo a. a. with Tom Browne , Grover Washington Jr. ( Blue Marine ), Randy Brecker, David Sanborn , Kazumi Watanabe, Will Lee , Steve Gadd and Guilherme Franco ( A Day in the Paradise , 1983) as well as with their own formations. In 1984 he founded the fusion band Now'in .

In the field of jazz, he was involved in 53 recording sessions between 1968 and 2013, most recently with the singer Mari Kanemoto .

Lexical entry

  • Kazunori Sugiyama Imada, Masaru . In: Barry Kernfeld (Ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz MacMillan 2002 (2nd edition)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Kazunori Sugiyama: Imada Masaru . In: Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online 2003 . Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0 .
  2. ↑ Including with Kenji Mori , Takao Uematsu , Masayuki Takayanagi , Hideto Kanai , Nobuyoshi Ino , Hiroshi Murakami , Yūji Imamura
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 18, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Imada, Masaru
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 今 田 勝 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo prefecture