is a Japanese pianist and composer. Itabashi began playing piano when he was eight years old, and studied music formally at

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, where he first started playing jazz. In the 1970s he worked with

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, and Sadao Watanabe, in addition to leading his own small ensembles. In the 1980s he did several international tours as a sideman with Ray Anderson and

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, and in the 1990s worked with Leo Etoh in a traditional Japanese percussion ensemble called Wa Daiko. In addition to his work in jazz, Itabashi also works as a

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composer, and has done soundtracks for Chinese and Japanese motion pictures.

References

*Kazunori Sugiyama, "Fumio Itabashi". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed.

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