Masaru Imada Trio

Masaru Imada Trio was the piano trio led by Japanese jazz pianist and composer Masaru Imada. Imada studied classical piano, played jazz in student bands at Meiji University and worked in clarinettist Eiji Kitamura's band before leading his own trio. He recorded much of his work of the 1970s for the Japanese label Three Blind Mice. Masaru Imada made Now!, Poppy and Green Caterpillar for Three Blind Mice in the early and mid 1970s, as well as a duo album with bassist George Mraz, Alone Together (1977).