Takeru Muraoka

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Takeru Muraoka ( Japanese 村 岡 健 , Muraoka Takeru; born January 12, 1941 ) is a Japanese musician ( tenor saxophone ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Takeru Muraoka worked from the mid-1960s with Hideo Shiraki (with whom he made a guest appearance at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1965 ), Shungo Sawada and Terumasa Hino ; he was also a member of the Kikuchi-Hino Quintet. In 1970 he played the self-titled debut album Takeru for Philips , on which Masabumi Kikuchi , Yoshio Ikeda and George Otsuka participated; The live album Right and Tie followed in 1971 (with Takao Uematsu , Hiromasa Suzuki , Yoshio Chin Suzuki , Motohiko Hino ), and in 1978 the fusion-oriented studio album Soft Landing . In the 1970s he worked a. a. with Akira Ishikawa , Jun Fukamachi , Hiromasa Colgen Suzuki, Masako Miyazaki, in the following decade with Keiko Saijo . George Kawaguchi and the singer Yasuko Agawa . In 1985 he released the album Stardust: Takeru Muraoka Plays Standards (Columbia / SONY), with jazz classics like “ After You've Gone ”, “ On the Sunny Side of the Street ”, “ Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ” and “ I Can 't Get Started '. In the field of jazz , he was involved in 35 recording sessions between 1965 and 1992.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrew Wright Hurley: The Return of Jazz: Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural Change . 2009, p. 248
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 15, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Muraoka, Takeru
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 村 岡 健 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1941