Shigeo Maruyama

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Shigeo Maruyama ( Japanese 丸山 繁 雄 , Maruyama Shigeo ; born June 22, 1951 in Niigata Prefecture ) is a Japanese jazz singer and big band leader .

Act

Shigeo Maruyama studied jazz singing at Waseda University in Tokyo from 1974, then guitar with Kazumi Watanabe in 1976 ; during this time he appeared as a singer. He made his debut as a professional musician in 1974 with the trio of pianist Norio Kotani . In the following years he worked with Ryōjirō Furusawa , Shigeharu Mukai and Takashi Miyasaka ; from 1977 he led his own band. From the 1980s he laid z. T. Pop-oriented albums like Ju-Ju (1987) before (followed by the songs Potato Vender and Tackle Down ). He recorded the album A Young Father's Song (Aketa's Disc) in the early 1980s . During a stay in New York in 1990, the production Sweet Lorraine was created , in which Maruyama was accompanied by Norman Simmons , Lisle Atkinson and Kenny Washington . With his big band, the Shigeo Maruyama Suikyo Za Orchestra , he made a guest appearance at the second Yamaha Jazz Festival ( Kick Off ) in 1993 . In the same year, the album Younger Than Spring was created (Insights, among others with Midori Matsuya , Katsuyoshi Katayama , Yutaka Sasaki ), on which he found jazz standards like “ Body and Soul ”, “ How Long Has This Been Going On? "," Solitude "and" What Is This Thing Called Love? “Interpreted.

Discographic notes

Lexical entry

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kazunori Sugiyama: Shigeo Maruyama In: Grove Music Online - The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz , 2nd edition, 2003, ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0
  2. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 13, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Maruyama, Shigeo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 丸山 繁 雄 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Niigata prefecture