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Fumio Karashima
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Japan
- Active from
- 1948
- Active to
- 2017
Discography
- Moonflower1978
- ピラニア2014
- Hot Islands
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- Listeners
- 2,269
- Total plays
- 9,085
Tags
jazzpianojapanesejapanjazz fusion
Fumio Karashima (辛島文雄, 9 March 1948 – 24 February 2017) was a Japanese jazz pianist. Karashima began playing the piano at the age of three. His father was a music teacher at Kyushu University; Karashima attended the same university. He stayed in New York in 1973, but returned to Japan the next year. In 1975 he joined drummer George Ohtsuka's band. In 1980 he joined Elvin Jones' Jazz Machine, and stayed for five years, including for tours of Europe and the United States. <a href="https://www.las
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Ōita Prefecture
- Place of death
- Tokyo
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- Kyushu University
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- piano
- Official website
- www.pit-inn.com/karashima
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- date of birth
- 1948-03-09
- name in kana
- からしま ふみお
- date of death
- 2017-02-24
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- 辛島文雄
- start of work period
- 1975-00-00
- web feed URL
- pit-inn.com/karashima/index.xml
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