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Fumio Karashima
Japanese jazz pianist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fumio Karashima (辛島文雄, Karashima Fumio; 9 March 1948 – 24 February 2017) was a Japanese jazz pianist.
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Life and career
Karashima began playing the piano at the age of three.[1] His father was a music teacher at Kyushu University; Karashima attended the same university.[1] He stayed in New York in 1973, but returned to Japan the next year.[1] In 1975 he joined drummer George Ohtsuka's band.[1] In 1980 he joined Elvin Jones' Jazz Machine, and stayed for five years, including for tours of Europe and the United States.[1] He then switched to being principally a solo pianist, but also led a quintet from 1988 to 1991.[1] During the 1990s he frequently toured internationally.[1] He died of cancer on 24 February 2017.[2]
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