Naoki Kitajima
Naoki Kitajima ( Japanese 北島 直樹 , Kitajima Naoki ; * around 1955) is a Japanese fusion and jazz musician ( piano , e-piano , keyboard , synthesizer ).
Life
Naoki Kitajima worked in the Japanese jazz and fusion scene from the 1970s; first recordings were made in 1978 with Yoshiaki Miyanoue ( What's Happened ). In the following years he played a. a. with Hidehiko Matsumoto , Motohiko Hino ( Zoomin ' (1982), with Nobuyoshi Ino , Kazumasa Akiyama , Kenji Nishiyama ), Hiroshi Fukumura , Yasuko Agawa , Miko Sato , Shungo Sawada , Osamu Kawakami and Martha Miyake . In 1984 he and his band Flash released the album Jam Trip Dream Soldier Wingman (Columbia). From the 1990s he worked on the recordings of Takashi Ohi , Yoshihiko Hosono , Naoko Terai and Ritsuko Iwayama . The discographer Tom Lord lists his involvement in jazz between 1978 and 2015 at 19 recording sessions.
Web links
- Naoki Kitajima at Discogs (English)
- Naoki Kitajima at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kitajima, Naoki |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 北島 直樹 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese fusion and jazz musician (piano, e-piano, keyboard, synthesizer) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1955 |