Norio Maeda
December 6, 1934 – November 25, 2018 Osaka Prefecture was a Japanese jazz composer and pianist. 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.
Norio Maeda
- Name
- Norio Maeda
- Born
- 6 December 1934
- Died
- 25 November 2018
- Full name
- 前田暢人.
- Nationality
- Japan and Empire of Japan.
- Occupation
- composer, music arranger, pianist, keyboardist, vibraphonist and conductor.
- Fields
- jazz.
- Honours
- Fumio Nanri Award.
- Languages
- Japanese.
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December 6, 1934 – November 25, 2018 Osaka Prefecture was a Japanese jazz composer and pianist. 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.
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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 and Takeshi Inomata, and later worked with Inomata again in a trio with Sadanori Nakamure. On 25 November 2018, Maeda died from pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo.
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• Name — Norio Maeda • Born — 6 December 1934 • Died — 25 November 2018 • Era — 20th century
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