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Stomu Yamashta (or Yamash'ta), born Tsutomu Yamashita (山下勉, Yamashita Tsutomu, 15 March 1947), is a Japanese percussionist, keyboardist and composer. He is best known for pioneering and popularising a fusion of traditional Japanese percussive music with Western progressive rock music in the 1960s and 1970s. In the latter part of the 1970s, he led the supergroup Go with Steve Winwood, Al Di…
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Stomu Yamashta (born Yamashita Tsutomu, Japanese: 山下勉, 15 March 1947, Kyoto, Japan) Since the late 60’s he has developed an international reputation as a composer and performer (percussion, keyboards) of serious music, jazz rock fusion, rock, electronica as well as multi-media projects for the theatre, a ballet score ("Shukumei" ) and cinematic soundtracks. He studied jazz. He has toured and played with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra and the rock group Come to The Edge. <a href="https://www.last.
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Kyoto
- Occupation
- keyboardist
- Educated at
- Juilliard School
- Instrument
- keyboard instrument
- Record label
- Island Records
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- date of birth
- 1947-03-15
- name in native language
- ツトム・ヤマシタ
- start of work period
- 1970-00-00
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