Norio Maeda
Japanese jazz composer and pianist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Norio Nobuhito Maeda (前田 憲男, Maeda Norio, December 6, 1934 – November 25, 2018 Osaka Prefecture) was a Japanese jazz composer and pianist.
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Born | (1934-12-06)December 6, 1934 |
Died | November 25, 2018(2018-11-25) (aged 83) |
Era | 20th century |
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Maeda learned piano as a young child, and moved to Tokyo to play and arrange jazz professionally in 1955. There he played with Shungo Sawada's ensemble and founded a group called the Wind Breakers. He joined the West Liners, led by Konosuke Saijo, as a pianist and arranger in 1959. Known as a composer, he penned pieces for The Blue Coats, Tatsuya Takahashi, Nobuo Hara, and Toshiyuki Miyama. He also founded We 3 with Yasuo Arakawa [ja; de] and Takeshi Inomata, and later worked with Inomata again in a trio with Sadanori Nakamure [ja; de].
On 25 November 2018, Maeda died from pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo.[1][2]