白木秀雄

Hideo Shiraki (白木秀雄; 1 January 1933, in Tokyo – 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.

He emerged in the new Japanese jazz scene of the 1950s that grew out of the influence of the US occupying… More