Toshio Oida

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Toshio Oida ( Japanese 笈 田 敏夫 , Oida Toshio ; * February 21, 1925 ; † September 9, 2003 ) was a Japanese jazz singer , stylistically linked to swing and mainstream jazz . With his singing style based on Bing Crosby , Frankie Laine and Perry Como , he was considered one of the most popular jazz singers in Japan of his time.

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Toshio Oida began his singing career in Tokyo in the early 1950s; he initially appeared primarily in the clubs for the troop entertainment of the American army. The first recordings were made in 1953, accompanied by the Blue Coats Orchestra ( The Legendary Japanese Jazz Scene ), and in 1954 several titles with ensemble accompaniment for Mercury Records (including Mitsuru Ono and JC Heard ). In 1957 he married the opera singer Kaoru Uji .

His 1976 album It Was a Very Good Year (TBM, 1976) included standards such as " The Way You Look Tonight ", " Basin Street Blues " and " I Got a Kick Out of You " in arrangements by Shoji Yokouchi . In 1981 the album Longest Dream (Express) followed, on which he a. a. was accompanied by Toots Thielemans and Chikara Ueda . The album Forever (1984, with Hidehiko Matsumoto , Shoji Suzuki , Sakurako Ogyu , Tomoya Tsukahara , Isoo Fukui , Takaaki Nishikawa ) consisted of popular songs like " I'm Just a Lucky So and So ", " Love Is a Many Splendored Thing " , " My Funny Valentine " and " The Man I Love ". The album Goodnight Sweetheart was created in New York in 1989 , on which Oida a. a. was accompanied by Al Gray , Bobby Tucker , Paul West and Grady Tate . In the field of jazz he was involved in twelve recording sessions between 1953 and 1996.

Toshio Oida has appeared in numerous Japanese television shows over the course of his career and has worked in the films Tokyo Pigalle (1957, directed by Umetsugu Inoue), Abashiri bangaichi: Fubuki no tôsô (1967, directed by Teruo Ishii) and Kyôfu kikei ningen: Edogawa Rampo zenshû (1969 , Teruo Ishii) with.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Japan , Volume 7, Mainichi Publishing Company, 1954
  2. ^ William Minor: Jazz Journeys to Japan: The Heart Within . 2004, p. 70
  3. ↑ Toru Mitsui Made in Japan: Studies in Popular Music . Routledge 2015, pp. 53, 57
  4. ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 1, 2017)
  5. ↑ Jet November 14, 1957
  6. ↑ Toshio Oida in the Internet Movie Database (English)Template: IMDb / Maintenance / "imported from" is missing
personal data
SURNAME Oida, Toshio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 笈 田敏夫 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1925
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 2003
Place of death Tokyo