Fumio Karashima

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Fumio Karashima (辛島文雄, 9 March 1948 – 24 February 2017) was a Japanese jazz pianist. Karashima began playing the piano at the age of three. His father was a music teacher at Kyushu University; Karashima attended the same university. He stayed in New York in 1973, but returned to Japan the next year. In 1975 he joined drummer George Ohtsuka's band. In 1980 he joined Elvin Jones' Jazz Machine, and stayed for five years, including for tours of Europe and the United States. He then switched to being principally a solo pianist, but also led a quintet from 1988 to 1991. During the 1990s he frequently toured internationally. He died of cancer on 24 February 2017. Discography 2015* Everything I Love Pit Inn Solo piano 2014* A Time for Love Pit Inn Trio, with Satsuki Kusui (bass), Nobuyuki Komatsu (drums) 2012* Summertime Pit Inn Quintet, with Atsushi Ikeda and Masanori Okazaki (sax), Satsuk Kusui (bass), Nobuyuki Komastsu (drums) 2010* E.J. Blues Pit Inn Quartet, with Masanori Okazaki (sax), Ryu Kawamura (bass), Takeo Moriyama (drums) 2008 Moon River VideoArts Solo piano 2005 Great Time VideoArts Trio, with Drew Gress (bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums) 2003 It's Just Beginning VideoArts Trio, with Yosuke Inoue (bass), Shingo Okudaira (drums) 2002 Grand New Touch VideoArts Duo, with Kei Akagi (piano) 2001 The Elysian Air VideoArts Trio, with Yosuke Inoue (bass), Shingo Okudaira (drums) 1999* Rencontre Emarcy, Polydor Japan Duet, with Toots Thielemans 1983 Round Midnight Absord Quartet

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