Norio Maeda
Norio Maeda ( Japanese 前 田 憲 男 Maeda Norio , actually: 前 田 暢 人 Maeda Nobuhito ; born December 6, 1934 in Osaka Prefecture ; † November 25, 2018 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese jazz musician ( piano , composition ).
Act
Maeda learned as a child self-taught piano. After graduating from Sakurazuka Prefectural High School in Toyonaka , he moved to Tokyo in 1955 to play jazz professionally. He became a member of Shungo Sawada's band before forming his own group with the Wind Breakers . From 1959 he was a pianist and arranger of the West Liners of Kōnosuke Saijō . Over the next few years he composed for The Blue Coats ( With Happy Feeling ), Tatsuya Takahashi ( Confusion ), Nobuo Hara and Toshiyuki Miyama's New Herd . Since the 1960s he has also worked as a film composer . In the 1970s he also arranged works by Bach and Tchaikovsky for jazz ensembles. Together with Yasuo Arakawa and Takeshi Inomata , he founded the collaborative trio We 3 , which had an excellent reputation in the Japanese scene and which also recorded with Dolly Baker . Since 1995 he has played with Inomata in a trio with Sadanori Nakamure . He later worked as the musical arranger and head of the Pops department of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and since 2003 as a professor of music at the Osaka Art School . He died of complications from pneumonia .
Discographic notes
- Takeshi Inomata, Norio Maeda Drum Shot (Columbia 1968, with Hiroshi Suzuku , Kōnosuke Saijō, Sadanori Nakamure , Tatsuro Takimoto )
- Tadao Sawai , Kazue Sawai , Norio Maeda, Hozan Yamamoto Air on the G-String: Sebastian Bach Played by the Koto (RCA Red Seal 1972)
- Revolution (Columbia 1972)
- Jazz in Symphony (Columbia 1973)
- The Third, Norio Maeda The Third Concert / Original Compositions by Norio Maeda (RCA 1975)
- Rhapsody in Blue / Norio Maeda Plays George Gershwin (Express, Far East 1979)
- Norio Maeda / Masahiko Satoh / Kentarou Haneda Play! Gershwin by Triple Piano (CBS / Sony 1988)
Lexical entry
- Yozo Iwanami & Kazunori Sugiyama: Norio Maeda . In: Barry Kernfeld (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz . 2nd Edition. https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J284700
Web links
- Norio Maeda at Allmusic (English)
- Norio Maeda in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Norio Maeda at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maeda, Norio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 前 田 憲 男 (Japanese, stage name); 前 田 暢 人 (Japanese, real name); Maeda, Nobuhito (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese jazz musician (piano, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osaka prefecture |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 2018 |
| Place of death | Tokyo |