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白木秀雄

Hideo Shiraki (白木秀雄; 1 January 1933, in Tokyo – 31 August 1972) was a Japanese jazz drummer and bandleader, best known for his work in the 1950s and 1960s. Famed earlier on for hard bop, he later explored world music and became a pioneer of fusing traditional music forms with jazz structuring.

He emerged in the new Japanese jazz scene of the 1950s that grew out of the influence of the US occupying…

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Type
Person
Area
Japan
Born
January 1st, 1933
Died
August 31st, 1972
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Last updated: September 30th, 2014·MusicBrainz

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