Nobuo Hara
Nobuo Hara ( Japanese 原 信 夫 , Hara Nobuo ; born November 19, 1926 in Toyama , Toyama Prefecture ), actually Nobuo Tsukahara ( 塚 原 信 夫 , Tsukahara Nobuo ), is a Japanese tenor saxophonist and band leader of swing .
Hara played in a band of the Japanese navy from 1943 and after the Second World War in officers' clubs in Tokyo. In 1952 he founded the jazz big band Sharps and Flats , which helped make jazz popular in Japan in the 1950s and with which he was the first Japanese to perform with his own band at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1967 . His big band existed until the 2000s and was initially aligned with Woody Herman's big band. He made numerous recordings in Japan, for example Double Exposure (1970, arranged by Toshiko Akiyoshi ), Giant Steps: Nobuo Hara meets Elvin Jones , Frank Foster (1978) and 3-2-1-0 / Oliver Nelson (1969).
From November 2008 to February 2010 he had his final tour with his band.
He played with numerous traveling musicians in Japanese, including Quincy Jones , Count Basie , Miles Davis , Sammy Davis junior , Perry Como , Henry Mancini , Sylvie Vartan , Nat King Cole , Yves Montand , Sarah Vaughan and Diana Ross .
He won several Swing Journal reader polls from 1956 onwards.
literature
- Barry Kernfeld (Editor) New Grove Dictionary of Jazz , Macmillan 1996
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Toshiko Akiyoshi performed there as early as 1956
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hara, Nobuo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 原 信 夫 (Japanese, pseudonym); Tsukahara Nobuo (real name); 塚 原 信 夫 (Japanese, real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese tenor saxophonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toyama , Toyama Prefecture |