{{Short description|Japanese jazz pianist}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Fumio Karashima | image = | caption = | image_size = | birth_name = {{nihongo|Fumio Karashima|辛島文雄|Karashima Fumio}} | alias = | birth_place = Oita, Japan | birth_date = {{Birth date|1948|3|9|df=y}} | death_place = Tokyo, Japan | death_date = {{death date and age |2017|2|24 |1948|3|9|df=yes}} | instrument = Piano | genre = Jazz | occupation = Musician | years_active = 1975–2017 | label = | associated_acts = Elvin Jones | website = {{URL|http://www.pit-inn.com/karashima/en/}} | current_members = | past_members = }}
{{nihongo|'''Fumio Karashima'''|辛島文雄|Karashima Fumio|extra= 9 March 1948 – 24 February 2017}} was a Japanese jazz pianist.
==Life and career== Karashima began playing the piano at the age of three.<ref name="Grove">{{Citation|last = Iwanami|first = Yozo |last2 = Sugiyama |first2 = Kazunori|title = Karashima, Fumio|publisher = Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press|url = http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/J242200?q=Fumio+Karashima&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit|access-date = 31 January 2015|url-access=subscription }}</ref> His father was a music teacher at Kyushu University; Karashima attended the same university.<ref name="Grove" /> He stayed in New York in 1973, but returned to Japan the next year.<ref name="Grove" /> In 1975 he joined drummer George Ohtsuka's band.<ref name="Grove" /> In 1980 he joined Elvin Jones' Jazz Machine, and stayed for five years, including for tours of Europe and the United States.<ref name="Grove" /> He then switched to being principally a solo pianist, but also led a quintet from 1988 to 1991.<ref name="Grove" /> During the 1990s he frequently toured internationally.<ref name="Grove" /> He died of cancer on 24 February 2017.<ref>[http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/20170225-OYT1T50000.html "ジャズピアニスト、辛島文雄さん死去...68歳"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226221150/http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/20170225-OYT1T50000.html |date=2017-02-26 }}. ''Yomiuri Shimbun''. 25 February 2017.</ref>
==Discography== An asterisk (*) after the year indicates that it is the year of release.
===As leader/co-leader=== {|class="wikitable sortable" |- !Year recorded !Title !Label !Notes |- |2015* |''Everything I Love'' |Pit Inn |Solo piano |- |2014* |''A Time for Love'' |Pit Inn |Trio, with Satsuki Kusui (bass), Nobuyuki Komatsu (drums) |- |2012* |''Summertime'' |Pit Inn |Quintet, with Atsushi Ikeda and Masanori Okazaki (sax), Satsuk Kusui (bass), Nobuyuki Komastsu (drums) |- |2010* |''E.J. Blues'' |Pit Inn |Quartet, with Masanori Okazaki (sax), Ryu Kawamura (bass), Takeo Moriyama (drums) |- |2008 |''Moon River'' |VideoArts |Solo piano |- |2005 |''Great Time'' |VideoArts |Trio, with Drew Gress (bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums) |- |2003 |''It's Just Beginning'' |VideoArts |Trio, with Yosuke Inoue (bass), Shingo Okudaira (drums) |- |2002 |''Grand New Touch'' |VideoArts |Duo, with Kei Akagi (piano) |- |2001 |''The Elysian Air'' |VideoArts |Trio, with Yosuke Inoue (bass), Shingo Okudaira (drums) |- |1999* |''Rencontre'' |Emarcy, Polydor Japan |Duet, with Toots Thielemans |- |1983 |''Round Midnight'' |Absord |Quartet, with Larry Coryell (guitar), Ikuo Sakurai (bass), Motohiko Hino (drums) |- |1982 |''Elegant Evening'' |Absord |Trio, with Ikuo Sakurai (bass), Motohiko Hino (drums) |- |1981 |''A Child in the Wind'' |Absord |Trio, with Richard Davis (bass), George Ohtsuka (drums) |- |1980 |''Sho'' |Absord |Trio, with Nobuyoshi Ino (bass), George Ohtsuka (drums) |- |1978 |''Hot Islands'' |Absord |Quartet, with Mabumi Yamaguchi (sax), Miroslav Vitouš (bass), George Ohtsuka (drums) |- |1978 |''Moonflower'' |Absord |Trio, with Andy McCloud (bass), Elvin Jones (drums) |- |1977 |''Gathering'' |Three Blind Mice |Most tracks trio, with Isao Suzuki (bass), George Ohtsuka (drums); one track solo piano |- |1977 |''Landscape'' |Whynot |Trio, with George Mraz (bass), Motohiko Hino (drums) |- |1975 |''Piranha'' |Whynot |Trio, with Isao Suzuki (bass), Jimmy Hopps (drums) |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.pit-inn.com/karashima/en/ Official Homepage] * {{discogs artist | artist = 1745000-Fumio-Karashima | name = Fumio Karashima }} * {{MusicBrainz artist|id=6c73a591-2666-42e9-aa96-311734a6702a|name=Fumio Karashima}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Karashima, Fumio}} Category:1948 births Category:2017 deaths Category:Japanese jazz pianists Category:Kyushu University alumni Category:People from Ōita (city) Category:Musicians from Ōita Prefecture Category:Japanese male pianists Category:20th-century Japanese pianists Category:21st-century Japanese pianists Category:Male jazz pianists