Hideo Shiraki

Hideo Shiraki (1933-1972) was a Japanese jazz drummer and bandleader, born in Tokyo. He studied percussion at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts and in 1957 formed a quintet that became popular in Japan during the hard bop boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s. He is remembered for joining jazz with Japanese traditional music, above all at the 1965 Berlin Jazz Festival, where his quintet played with koto players. Shiraki played with Masashi Nagao's Blue Coats while still a student.