Fumio Itabashi

Fumio Itabashi is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer, born in 1949 in Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture. He began piano as a child and turned to jazz while studying at Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. In the 1970s he played with Terumasa Hino, Takeo Moriyama and Sadao Watanabe. He is best known for his solo piano album Watarase (1982), and he also writes film scores. Itabashi toured internationally as a sideman with Ray Anderson and with the Elvin Jones Jazz Machine, and has also played with Kosuke Mine.