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Takeo Moriyama
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Masaru Sato
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Noriyuki Asakura
Noriyuki Asakura
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Dave Douglas
Dave Douglas
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Takashi Kako
Takashi Kako
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Yasuhiko Fukuda
Yasuhiko Fukuda
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Roscoe Mitchell
Roscoe Mitchell
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Andreas Ulvo
Andreas Ulvo
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Takashi Furuya
Takashi Furuya
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Neal Hefti
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Hank Jones
Hank Jones
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Sadao Watanabe
Sadao Watanabe
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Michael Mantler
Michael Mantler
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Edward Wilkerson
Edward Wilkerson
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Yōsuke Yamashita
Yōsuke Yamashita
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Bob Northern
Bob Northern
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Tōru Takemitsu
Tōru Takemitsu
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Fumio Karashima
Fumio Karashima
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Theo Bleckmann
Theo Bleckmann
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Bob Curnow
Bob Curnow
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Jan Dumée
Jan Dumée
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Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars
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Larry Stabbins
Larry Stabbins
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Paul Motian
Paul Motian
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Oliver Nelson
Oliver Nelson
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Bob Florence
Bob Florence
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Ryo Kawasaki
Ryo Kawasaki
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Gil Evans
Gil Evans
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Warren Smith
Warren Smith
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Clare Fischer
Clare Fischer
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Philippe Saisse
Philippe Saisse
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Mark Izu
Mark Izu
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Joseph Jarman
Joseph Jarman
American jazz musician
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Jim Hall
Jim Hall
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John Lewis
John Lewis
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Alec Wilder
Alec Wilder
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Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark
American jazz composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist
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Charles Davis
Charles Davis
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Dave Holland
Dave Holland
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Alan Shulman
Alan Shulman
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Paul Lytton
Paul Lytton
British musician
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Anthony Coleman
Anthony Coleman
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Fred Lonberg-Holm
Fred Lonberg-Holm
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John Serry Jr.
John Serry Jr.
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Leszek Żądło
Leszek Żądło
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Derek Bailey
Derek Bailey
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John Zorn
John Zorn
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Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders
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Billy Childs
Billy Childs
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Peter Appleyard
Peter Appleyard
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Ronald Shannon Jackson
Ronald Shannon Jackson
American drummer
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Mal Waldron
Mal Waldron
American jazz pianist and composer
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Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
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Bobby Previte
Bobby Previte
American drummer
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Tom Harrell
Tom Harrell
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Muhal Richard Abrams
Muhal Richard Abrams
American musician
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Miljenko Prohaska
Miljenko Prohaska
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Frank Foster
Frank Foster
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Peter Kowald
Peter Kowald
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Stafford James
Stafford James
American musician
Fumio Itabashi
Japanese pianist and composer (born 1949)

Fumio Itabashi

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Japanese pianist and composer (born 1949)
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Fumio Itabashi (板橋 文夫, Itabashi Fumio, born March 8, 1949 in Tochigi) is a Japanese pianist and composer.

Itabashi began playing piano when he was eight years old, and studied music formally at Kunitachi College of Music, where he first started playing jazz. In the 1970s he worked with Terumasa Hino, Takeo Moriyama, 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 Elvin Jones, 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 film score composer, and has done soundtracks for Chinese and Japanese motion pictures.