Nobuo Fujii
Nobuo Fujii ( Japanese 藤井 信 雄 , Fujii Nobuo ; * around 1955) is a Japanese jazz musician ( drums ).
Nobuo Fujii worked in the Japanese jazz scene from the late 1970s. The first recordings were made in Tomoki Takahashi's band ( Tomoki , 1979). In the following decade he played first with Akira Sakata , with whose orchestra he made a guest appearance at the Berlin Jazz Days at the end of 1981 ( Berlin 28 ), also with Yoshio Kuniyasu and with Yoshiaki Fujikawa and his Eastasia Orchestra ( Origin , 1983). In the following years he was a member of the Salt Trio (with Akihiro Ishiwatari , Takeharu Hayakawa ) and took part in the recordings of Takayuki Kato , Eiichi Hayashi , Kurumi Shimizu , Satoko Fujii and the alternative rock singer Phew .
From the 2000s Fujii worked with Masayasu Tzboguchi , in Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet , in the Shibuya Takeshi / Takeda Kazunori Quartet ( Old Folks , 2005), and with Naruyoshi Kikuchi . He also belonged to the experimental formations Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden (around Naruyoshi Kikuchi) and Tokyo zawinul bach (around Masayasu Tzboguchi) and Travel Through Time and Texture (around Masaaki Kikuchi ). In the 2010s he played in the Giulietta Machine quartet led by keyboardist Naoko Eto and guitarist Makoto Otsu .
Web links
- Nobuo Fujii at Discogs (English)
- Nobuo Fujii at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fujii, Nobuo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 藤井 信 雄 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1955 |