Hideo Shiraki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese jazz drummer, bandmaster (1933-1972)
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Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
About Hideo Shiraki
- Hideo Shiraki (????; born 1 January 1933 in Tokyo; died 31 August 1972) was a Japanese jazz drummer and bandleader, best known for his work in the 1950s and 1960s.
- Famed earlier on for hard bop, he later explored world music and became a pioneer of fusing traditional music forms with jazz structuring.
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