AKIRA JIMBO

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A player with remarkable technical skill and energy, Akira Jimbo has in recent years become the first Japanese drum set artist to achieve worldwide acclaim on the clinic circuit. His amazing ambidexterity and musical command of both acoustic and electronic sounds always brings the house down.

Akira came to fame with the four-piece Japanese jazz-fusion band Casiopea. Casiopea was formed in 1979 by guitarist Issei Noro, keyboardist Minoru Mukaiya, bassist Tetsuo Sakurai and drummer Takashi Sasaki. The band released its first album in May of 1979, a high-energy fusion of jazz and funk augmented by a horn section consisting of top American stars Michael and Randy Brecker and David Sanborn. Akira took over the drum chair in 1980, appearing on the band’s third album, Thunder Live, the first of several live albums. Akira stayed until the end of the decade, during which time the band toured the world three times, appearing
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AKIRA JIMBO Cotton album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Cotton
Pop/Art Song/Folk 1986
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Jimbo
Pop/Art Song/Folk 1990
AKIRA JIMBO Slow Boat album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Slow Boat
Pop/Art Song/Folk 1991
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Penguin Parasol
Pop/Art Song/Folk 1992
AKIRA JIMBO Palette album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Palette
Pop/Art Song/Folk 1993
AKIRA JIMBO Lime Pie album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lime Pie
RnB 1994
AKIRA JIMBO Panama Man album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Panama Man
Pop/Art Song/Folk 1995
AKIRA JIMBO Rooms by the Sea album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Rooms by the Sea
Pop/Art Song/Folk 1995
AKIRA JIMBO Stone Butterfly album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Stone Butterfly
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1997
AKIRA JIMBO Flower album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Flower
Pop/Art Song/Folk 1997
AKIRA JIMBO Akira Jimbo & Brian Bromberg : Brombo! JB Project album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Akira Jimbo & Brian Bromberg : Brombo! JB Project
Fusion 2004
AKIRA JIMBO Akira Jimbo & Brian Bromberg : Brombo2!! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Akira Jimbo & Brian Bromberg : Brombo2!!
Fusion 2004
AKIRA JIMBO Four Colors album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Four Colors
Fusion 2007
AKIRA JIMBO Get Up! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Get Up!
Fusion 2008
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Jimbomba
Fusion 2009
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Jimbo Gumbo
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2010
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Jimbo Jamboree
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2011
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Jimbo de Cover
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2012
AKIRA JIMBO Smile Smile album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Smile Smile
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2012
AKIRA JIMBO Mind Scope album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Mind Scope
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2013
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Jimbo de Cover 2
Pop/Art Song/Folk 2013
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Crossover The World
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2014
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Jimbo de Cover 3
Pop/Art Song/Folk 2014
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Groove Of Life
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2015
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Jimbo De CTI
Fusion 2015
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Brombo! JB Project
Pop/Art Song/Folk 2015
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Brombo II ! JB Project
Pop/Art Song/Folk 2015
AKIRA JIMBO Munity album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Munity
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2016
AKIRA JIMBO JIMBO de JIMBO 80's album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
JIMBO de JIMBO 80's
Pop/Art Song/Folk 2016
AKIRA JIMBO JB Project (Akira Jimbo & Brian Bromberg) : BromboIII!!! album cover 5.00 | 1 ratings
JB Project (Akira Jimbo & Brian Bromberg) : BromboIII!!!
Fusion 2017
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21
Pop/Art Song/Folk 2017
AKIRA JIMBO 22 South Bound album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
22 South Bound
Latin Jazz 2018
AKIRA JIMBO 23 West Bound album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
23 West Bound
RnB 2018
AKIRA JIMBO Akira Jimbo Featuring Will Lee : 24th Street NY Duo album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Akira Jimbo Featuring Will Lee : 24th Street NY Duo
Pop/Art Song/Folk 2019
AKIRA JIMBO 25th Avenue LA Trio (featuring Abraham Laboriel & Russell Ferrante) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
25th Avenue LA Trio (featuring Abraham Laboriel & Russell Ferrante)
Pop/Art Song/Folk 2019
AKIRA JIMBO 26th Street NY Duo Featuring Will Lee & Oz Noy album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
26th Street NY Duo Featuring Will Lee & Oz Noy
Funk Jazz 2020
AKIRA JIMBO 27th Avenue La Trio Featuring Abraham Laboriel, Russell Ferrante & Patrice Rushen album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
27th Avenue La Trio Featuring Abraham Laboriel, Russell Ferrante & Patrice Rushen
RnB 2020
AKIRA JIMBO 28 NY Blue Featuring Oz Noy & Edmond Gilmore album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
28 NY Blue Featuring Oz Noy & Edmond Gilmore
Funk Jazz 2021
AKIRA JIMBO 29 NY Red Featuring Silvano Monasterios & Ricardo Rodriguez album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
29 NY Red Featuring Silvano Monasterios & Ricardo Rodriguez
Latin Jazz 2021
AKIRA JIMBO 30 Tokyo Yellow album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
30 Tokyo Yellow
Fusion 2021

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AKIRA JIMBO Beach Picnics Vol. 1 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Beach Picnics Vol. 1
Pop/Art Song/Folk 1994
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Beach Picnics Vol. 2
Pop/Art Song/Folk 1994
AKIRA JIMBO Pacifica album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Pacifica
Pop/Art Song/Folk 1997
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Jimbest
Pop/Art Song/Folk 2010
AKIRA JIMBO Jimbo The Best -Kanreki- album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jimbo The Best -Kanreki-
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2019

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Evolution
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 1999
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Fujiyama: Combining Acoustic and Electronic Drums
Fusion 2003
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Akira Jinbo / Solo Drum Performance 4
Fusion 2007
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Akira Jimbo / Solo Drum Performance 5 - Circuit Exercise
Fusion 2008
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Solo Drum Performance 6 - Off Set Exercise
Fusion 2009
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Jinbo Akira / Solo Dram Performance 8 - Dotetto Exercise
Fusion 2010

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