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Eiji Kitamura
Eiji Kitamura is credited on 208 releases across 64 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1957–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
208
Pressings credited
64
Albums
8
Decades active
2
In collections
Biography
Eiji Kitamura (Japanese: 北村 英治; born April 8, 1929) is a Japanese jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist originally from Tokyo who made his debut at the age of 22. Kitamura devoted himself to clarinet playing while still an undergraduate at Keio University in Tokyo. He first came to prominence in the U.S. at the 20th Anniversary Jam Session of the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1977. His following in Japan was built previous to this on his regular television program. He prefers to interpret traditional swing jazz rather than modern jazz, and according to Allmusic is most strongly influenced by Benny Goodman and Woody Herman.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
208 releases · 64 albums · active 1957–2024
- Performance · 280
- Other credits · 11
- Production · 3
Studios: Iino Hall · CBS/Sony Shinanomachi Studio · CBS/Sony Roppongi Studio · Teichiku Kaikan Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Teddy Wilson
- Various
- Mitsuko Miyake
- Teddy
- Okihiko Sugano
- Swing Session (4)
- Kunihiko Sugano
- Nobuo Hara And His Sharps & Flats
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