Hideo Shiraki

Hideo Shiraki, (Japanese白木 秀雄, Hideo Shiraki; * January 1, 1933, Kanda - Matsueda -chō, Kanda, Tokyo city (now Chiyoda, Tokyo prefecture); † August 31, 1972 ) was a Japanese jazz drummer and bandleader.

Shiraki began his career in the 1950s as a musician under the influence stationed in Japan U.S. soldiers in the hard bop idiom. He studied percussion at the Music Academy in Tokyo; next he was playing with Masashi Nagaos Blue Coats. From 1959 to 1963 he was married to Yaeko Mizutani II. Around 1960, he worked with a private Quintet, played in the musician as Hidehiko Matsumoto, Terumasa Hino and Yuzuru Sera. With the successful Japanese band he put inter alia before the albums In Fiesta ( Teichiku 1961), which contained a cover version of Benny Golson standard Five Spot After Dark. In 1965 he opened the musical ethno-jazz when he was working with Sakura Sakura and koto players. In November 1965 he appeared at the invitation of Joachim -Ernst Berendt at the Berlin Jazz Festival, in which he fused modern jazz with traditional Japanese music. Shiraki also worked with Toshiko Akiyoshi ( Toshiko Meets Her Old Pals, 1961). He died in 1972 of a barbiturate poisoning.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Hideo Shiraki Quintet Featuring Terumasa Hino & Takeru Muraoka - Japan Meets Jazz, Hideo Shiraki Quintet In Berlin (MPS 1970)