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Japanese jazz pianist, composer (1948-2017)

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
Japan
Active from
1948
Active to
2017

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2,269
Total plays
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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

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Japan
Place of birth
Ōita Prefecture
Place of death
Tokyo
Occupation
composer
Languages spoken
Japanese
Genre
jazz
Instrument
piano
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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
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