Mitsuaki Kanno

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Mitsuaki Kanno ( Japanese 菅 野 光亮 , Kanno Mitsuaki ; * July 10, 1939 , † August 15, 1983 ) was a Japanese jazz pianist , arranger and film composer .

Live and act

Mitsuaki Kanno recorded the album Shisendo No Aki in 1970 (released on Victor Japan in 1973) and worked in the 1970s with the singer Yoshiko Kimura , on whose record session in Los Angeles ( Memories , 1977) he was involved as arranger. In 1978 he recorded his album When the World Was Young (Shisendo No Aki) for RCA in trio with Isoo Fukui (bass) and Michio Noguchi (drums) . In 1979 he accompanied the saxophonist Gary Foster (A Beautiful Friendship) with his trio (Isoo Fukui and Michio Noguchi ) . In 1981 he presented the album A la fin d'hiver at Atlantic . In the early 1980s he was still working with Toshio Mori & His Blue Coats (A Song of Don Quixote) . In the field of jazz he was involved in five recording sessions from 1977 to 1980. for albums by Takako Ueno and Yoshiko Kimura, among others . In the 1970s and 1980s, in addition to chamber music (also for Hōzan Yamamoto ), he wrote a number of film scores for television and feature films by Kôji Chino, Hideo Gosha, Shôgorô Nishimura, Yoshitarô Nomura and Sôkichi Tomimoto. In 1983 he was nominated for the Japanese Academy Award / Best Music .

Discographic notes

  • Shisendo No Aki (Victor, 1973), with Yasutoshi Inamori, Junichi Mitobe, Yasushi Mitsui, Osamu Oyama, Hiroyuki Yamakawa, Tomoya Haneo, Shizuo Hashimoto, Masanobu Asakura
  • Suna no Utsuwa (Soundtrack from Castle of Sand , Polydor, 1974)
  • Busho (BMG, 2007)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz Discography (online)
  2. ^ Anna Harriet Heyer: Historical sets, collected editions, and monuments of music: a guide to their contents, Volume 1 American Library Association, 1980
  3. ↑ Mitsuaki Kanno in the Internet Movie Database (English)Template: IMDb / Maintenance / "imported from" is missing
personal data
SURNAME Kanno, Mitsuaki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 菅 野 光亮 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1939
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1983