AKIRA JIMBO
Pop/Art Song/Folk / Fusion / Post-Fusion Contemporary / RnB / Funk Jazz / Latin Jazz / Jazz Related Improv/Composition • Japan
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Born on February 27th, 1959 in Tokyo, he is a Japanese drummer and percussionist known for being a former member of Casiopea from 1980 to 1989, later rejoining from 1997 to 2006, and lastly from 2012 to 2022 as a backing musician. In 1990, after departing from Casiopea a year prior, he formed Jimsaku, a drum and bass duo with Tetsuo Sakurai (another former Casiopea member).
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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
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Cotton
Pop/Art Song/Folk
1986
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Palette
Pop/Art Song/Folk
1989
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Jimbo
Pop/Art Song/Folk
1990
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Slow Boat
Pop/Art Song/Folk
1991
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Panama Man
Pop/Art Song/Folk
1994
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Flower
Pop/Art Song/Folk
1996
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Get Up!
Fusion
2008
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Jimbo Gumbo
Post-Fusion Contemporary
2010
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Smile Smile
Post-Fusion Contemporary
2012
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Mind Scope
Post-Fusion Contemporary
2013
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Munity
Post-Fusion Contemporary
2016
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21
Pop/Art Song/Folk
2017
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Sora
Pop/Art Song/Folk
2021
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アメアガリ
Jazz Related Improv/Composition
2021
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Pacifica
Pop/Art Song/Folk
1997
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Jimbest
Pop/Art Song/Folk
2010
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Evolution
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop
1999
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