was a Japanese

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...

composer and pianist. Maeda learned piano as a young child, and moved to Tokyo to play and arrange jazz professionally in 1955. There he played with Shungo Sawada's ensemble and founded a group called the Wind Breakers. He joined the West Liners, led by Konosuke Saijo, as a pianist and arranger in 1959. Known as a composer, he penned pieces for The Blue Coats, Tatsuya Takahashi, Nobuo Hara, and Toshiyuki Miyama. He also founded We 3 with and Takeshi Inomata, and later worked with Inomata again in a trio with .

References

*Yozo Iwanami and Kazunori Sugiyama, "Norio Maeda". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edn, ed. Barry Kernfeld. {{DEFAULTSORT:Maeda, Norio 1934 births 2018 deaths Japanese jazz composers Japanese jazz pianists Japanese male pianists Male jazz composers Male jazz pianists Musicians from Osaka Prefecture