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 major ...
bassist and record producer.
Early life
Nakamura was born in Tokyo on 3 March 1942. Everyone in his immediate family were artists. He studied at
Nihon University
, abbreviated as , is a private university, private research university in Japan. Its predecessor, Nihon Law School (currently the Department of Law), was founded by Yamada Akiyoshi, the Minister of Justice (Japan), Minister of Justice, in 1889. ...
before moving to New York in 1964. He studied there with
Reggie Workman
Reginald "Reggie" Workman (born June 26, 1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American avant-garde jazz and hard bop double bassist, recognized for his work with both John Coltrane and Art Blakey.
Career
Early in his career, Workman worke ...
.
Later life and career
Nakamura in 1969 joined drummer
Roy Haynes
Roy Owen Haynes (born March 13, 1925) is an American jazz drummer. He is among the most recorded drummers in jazz. In a career lasting over 80 years, he has played swing, bebop, jazz fusion, avant-garde jazz and is considered a pioneer of jazz ...
's ensemble; that same year he also formed a band with Steve Grossman and
Lenny White
Leonard "Lenny" White III (born December 19, 1949) is an American jazz fusion drummer who was a member of the band Return to Forever led by Chick Corea in the 1970s. White has been called "one of the founding fathers of jazz fusion". He has won ...
, who both went on to play on his debut as a leader, 1973's ''
Unicorn
The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead.
In European literature and art, the unicorn has for the last thousand years o ...
''. Nakamura played both acoustic and electric bass on the album, which was recorded in 1973 and released by Three Blind Mice.
Nakamura formed the Rising Sun band in the mid-1970s. In 1977 this contained saxophonist
Bob Mintzer
Robert Alan Mintzer (born January 27, 1953) is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and big band leader.
Early life
Mintzer was born and raised in a Jewish family in New Rochelle, New York, on January 27, 1953. He attended the Inter ...
, guitarist Shiro Mori, with Mark Gray on synthesizer, Art Gore on drums and Nobu Urushiyama on percussion. "Nakamura worked principally as a record producer in the 1980s and 1990s."
Discography
As leader
*''
Unicorn
The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead.
In European literature and art, the unicorn has for the last thousand years o ...
'' (
Three Blind Mice
"Three Blind Mice" is an English-language nursery rhyme and musical round.I. Opie and P. Opie, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 306. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number o ...
, 1973)
*''Rising Sun'' (
Polydor
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, 1976)
*''Manhattan Special'' (Polydor, 1977)
*''Songs of the Birds'' (Kitty, 1977)
*''Big Apple'' (Agharta, 1979)
*''Teruo Nakamura & Rising Sun Band at Carnegie Hall'' (Agharta, 1979)
*''Route 80'' (Agharta, 1980)
*''Super Friends'' (
Eastworld
Eastworld is a Japanese jazz and pop music record label owned by EMI Music Japan (former Toshiba-EMI), under Universal Music Group.
Artists
*Minako Honda
*Jennifer Connelly
*Marvin Peterson
*Original Love
*RC Succession
*Sadistic Mika Band
* San ...
Roy Haynes
Roy Owen Haynes (born March 13, 1925) is an American jazz drummer. He is among the most recorded drummers in jazz. In a career lasting over 80 years, he has played swing, bebop, jazz fusion, avant-garde jazz and is considered a pioneer of jazz ...
*''
Hip Ensemble
''Hip Ensemble'' is an album recorded by American drummer Roy Haynes in 1971 for the Mainstream label.Togyu'' (RCA, 1975)
With
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto
is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer.
Life and career
Yamamoto was largely self-taught as a pianist, although he did have piano lessons as a child. He attended Nihon University. As a student there, he played professionally, first as an accom ...
*''P.S. I Love You'' (Toshiba EMI, 1980)
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