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Nobuo Hara
Nobuo Hara is credited on 164 releases across 43 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1956–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
164
Pressings credited
43
Albums
8
Decades active
1
In collections
Biography
Nobuo Tsukahara, better known as Nobuo Hara (November 19, 1926–June 21, 2021) was a Japanese jazz saxophonist and bandleader. Hara was born in Toyama. He played in a military band during World War II and in a Tokyo officers' club after the war. He took leadership of the ensemble Sharps and Flats in 1952, which he would lead until the 1980s. This band recorded copiously and appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival. Sharps and Flats accompanied Chiemi Eri and included sidemen such as Masato Honda, Norio Maeda, Shotaro Moriyasu, and Akitoshi Igarashi. Hara died of pneumonia on June 21, 2021, in Tokyo.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
164 releases · 43 albums · active 1956–2025
- Performance · 178
- Other credits · 86
Studios: Yubin Chokin Hall · Koseinenkin Kaikan · Nippon Columbia Studio · Yamano Hall, Tokyo
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Nobuo Hara And His Sharps & Flats
- Nobuo Hara and His Sharps & Flats
- Shirley Bassey
- Oliver Nelson
- Nobuo Hara And Sharps & Flats
- Hibari Misora
- Gilles Peterson
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