was a Japanese

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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,

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Nobuo Hara Nobuo Tsukahara, better known as Nobuo Hara (November 19, 1926 – June 21, 2021) was a Japanese jazz saxophonist and bandleader. Hara was born in Toyama. He played in a military band during World War II and in a Tokyo officers' club after the wa ...

, and Toshiyuki Miyama. He also founded

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with and

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, 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.

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