Shinji Mori (Japanese: 森 慎二, born September 12, 1974 in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, Japan) is a right-handed pitcher.

From 1997-2005, he played for the Seibu Lions in Nippon Professional Baseball. After the 2005 season, he was acquired by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays through the posting system.^[1][2]

Originally slated to compete for the Devil Ray's closer job during the 2006 MLB season, he tore the labrum in his shoulder and missed the entire season. He was subsequently released by the Devil Rays.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Career statistics and player information from MLB, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)

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Max Roach
Max Roach, Amsterdam 1979
Background information
Birth name	Maxwell Lemuel Roach
Born	(1924-01-10)January 10, 1924
Origin	Township of Newland, North Carolina, United States
Died	August 16, 2007(2007-08-16) (aged 83)
Genres	Jazz
Occupations	Musician, composer
Instruments	Drums, percussion
Years active	1944–2002
Associated acts	M'Boom

Maxwell Lemuel "Max" Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.

A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered alongside the most important drummers in history.^[1][2] He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Clifford Brown, Eric Dolphy and Booker Little.

Roach also led his own groups, and made numerous musical statements relating to the civil rights movement of African Americans.

Biography[link]

Early life and career[link]

Roach was born in the Township of Newland, Pasquotank County, North Carolina, which borders the southern edge of the Great Dismal Swamp, to Alphonse and Cressie Roach. Many confuse this with Newland Town in Avery County. Although Roach's birth certificate lists his date of birth as January 10, 1924,^[3] Roach has been quoted by Phil Schaap as having stated that his family believed he was born on January 8, 1925. Roach's family moved to the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York when he was 4 years old. He grew up in a musical home, his mother being a gospel singer. He started to play bugle in parade orchestras at a young age. At the age of 10, he was already playing drums in some gospel bands. As an eighteen year-old fresh out of Boys High School in Brooklyn, (1942) he was called to fill in for Sonny Greer, and play with the Duke Ellington Orchestra performing at the Paramount Theater.

In 1942, Roach started to go out in the jazz clubs of the 52nd Street and at 78th Street & Broadway for Georgie Jay's Taproom (playing with schoolmate Cecil Payne).^[4]

Roach's most significant innovations came in the 1940s, when he and jazz drummer Kenny Clarke devised a new concept of musical time. By playing the beat-by-beat pulse of standard 4/4 time on the "ride" cymbal instead of on the thudding bass drum, Roach and Clarke developed a flexible, flowing rhythmic pattern that allowed soloists to play freely. The new approach also left space for the drummer to insert dramatic accents on the snare drum, "crash" cymbal and other components of the trap set.

By matching his rhythmic attack with a tune's melody, Roach brought a newfound subtlety of expression to his instrument. He often shifted the dynamic emphasis from one part of his drum kit to another within a single phrase, creating a sense of tonal color and rhythmic surprise.^[1] The idea was to shatter musical conventions and take full advantage of the drummer's unique position. "In no other society", Roach once observed, "do they have one person play with all four limbs."^[5]

While that approach is common today, when Clarke and Roach introduced the new style in the 1940s it was a revolutionary musical advance. "When Max Roach's first records with Charlie Parker were released by Savoy in 1945," jazz historian Burt Korall wrote in the Oxford Companion to Jazz, "drummers experienced awe and puzzlement and even fear." One of those awed drummers, Stan Levey, summed up Roach's importance: "I came to realize that, because of him, drumming no longer was just time, it was music."^[1]

He was one of the first drummers (along with Kenny Clarke) to play in the bebop style, and performed in bands led by Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins, Bud Powell, and Miles Davis. Roach played on many of Parker's most important records, including the Savoy November 1945 session, a turning point in recorded jazz.

Max Roach, Three Deuces, NYC, ca. October 1947. Photography by William P. Gottlieb.

1950s[link]

Roach studied classical percussion at the Manhattan School of Music from 1950–53, working toward a Bachelor of Music degree (the School was to award him an Honorary Doctorate in 1990).

In 1952, Roach co-founded Debut Records with bassist Charles Mingus. This label released a record of a May 15, 1953 concert, billed as 'the greatest concert ever', which came to be known as Jazz at Massey Hall, featuring Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Mingus and Roach. Also released on this label was the groundbreaking bass-and-drum free improvisation, Percussion Discussion.^[6]

In 1954, he formed a quintet featuring trumpeter Clifford Brown, tenor saxophonist Harold Land, pianist Richie Powell (brother of Bud Powell), and bassist George Morrow, though Land left the following year and Sonny Rollins soon replaced him. The group was a prime example of the hard bop style also played by Art Blakey and Horace Silver. Tragically, this group was to be short-lived; Brown and Powell were killed in a car accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in June 1956. The first album Roach recorded after their deaths was Max Roach + 4. After Brown and Powell's deaths, Roach continued leading a similarly configured group, with Kenny Dorham (and later the short-lived Booker Little) on trumpet, George Coleman on tenor and pianist Ray Bryant. Roach expanded the standard form of hard-bop using 3/4 waltz rhythms and modality in 1957 with his album Jazz in 3/4 time. During this period, Roach recorded a series of other albums for the EmArcy label featuring the brothers Stanley and Tommy Turrentine.^[7]

In 1955, he was the drummer for vocalist Dinah Washington at several live appearances and recordings. Appearing at the Newport Jazz Festival with her in 1958 which was filmed and the 1954 live studio audience recording of Dinah Jams, considered to be one of the best and most overlooked vocal jazz albums of its genre.^[8]

1960s-1970s[link]

In 1960 he composed the We Insist! - Freedom Now suite with lyrics by Oscar Brown Jr., after being invited to contribute to commemorations of the hundredth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. In 1962, he recorded the album Money Jungle, a collaboration with Mingus and Duke Ellington. This is generally regarded as one of the very finest trio albums ever made.^[9]

In 1966, with his album Drums Unlimited (which includes several tracks that are entirely drums solos) he demonstrated that drums can be a solo instrument able to play theme, variations, rhythmically cohesive phrases. He described his approach to music as "the creation of organized sound."^[10]

During the 1970s, Roach formed a musical organization—"M'Boom"—a percussion orchestra. Each member of this unit composed for it and performed on many percussion instruments. Personnel included Fred King, Joe Chambers, Warren Smith, Freddie Waits, Roy Brooks, Omar Clay, Ray Mantilla, Francisco Mora, and Eli Fountain.^[10]

1980s-1990s[link]

In the early 1980s, he began presenting entire concerts solo, proving that this multi-percussion instrument could fulfill the demands of solo performance and be entirely satisfying to an audience. He created memorable compositions in these solo concerts; a solo record was released by Baystate, a Japanese label, just about impossible to obtain. One of these solo concerts is available on video, which also includes a filming of a recording date for "Chattahoochee Red," featuring his working quartet, Odean Pope, Cecil Bridgewater and Calvin Hill.

He embarked on a series of duet recordings. Departing from the style of presentation he was best known for, most of the music on these recordings is free improvisation, created with the avant-garde musicians Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Archie Shepp, and Abdullah Ibrahim. He created duets with other performers: a recorded duet with the oration by Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream"; a duet with video artist Kit Fitzgerald, who improvised video imagery while Roach spontaneously created the music; a classic duet with his life-long friend and associate Dizzy Gillespie; a duet concert recording with Mal Waldron.

He wrote music for theater, such as plays written by Sam Shepard, presented at La Mama E.T.C. in New York City.

He found new contexts for presentation, creating unique musical ensembles. One of these groups was "The Double Quartet." It featured his regular performing quartet, with personnel as above, except Tyrone Brown replacing Hill; this quartet joined with "The Uptown String Quartet," led by his daughter Maxine Roach, featuring Diane Monroe, Lesa Terry and Eileen Folson.

Another ensemble was the "So What Brass Quintet," a group comprising five brass instrumentalists and Roach, no chordal instrument, no bass player. Much of the performance consisted of drums and horn duets. The ensemble consisted of two trumpets, trombone, French horn and tuba. Musicians included Cecil Bridgewater, Frank Gordon, Eddie Henderson, Rod McGaha, Steve Turre, Delfeayo Marsalis, Robert Stewart, Tony Underwood, Marshall Sealy, Mark Taylor and Dennis Jeter.

Roach presented his music with orchestras and gospel choruses. He performed a concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He wrote for and performed with the Walter White gospel choir and the John Motley Singers. Roach performed with dancers: the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Dianne McIntyre Dance Company, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.

Roach surprised his fans by performing in a hip hop concert, featuring the artist-rapper Fab Five Freddy and the New York Break Dancers. He expressed the insight that there was a strong kinship between the outpouring of expression of these young black artists and the art he had pursued all his life.^[11]

Not content to expand on the musical territory he had already become known for, Roach spent the decades of the 1980s and 1990s continually finding new forms of musical expression and presentation. Though he ventured into new territory during a lifetime of innovation, he kept his contact with his musical point of origin. He performed with the Beijing Trio, with pianist Jon Jang and erhu player Jeibing Chen. His last recording, Friendship, was with trumpet master Clark Terry, the two long-standing friends in duet and quartet. His last performance was at the 50th anniversary celebration of the original Massey Hall concert, in Toronto, where he performed solo on the hi-hat.^[12]

In 1994, Roach also appeared on Rush drummer Neil Peart's Burning For Buddy performing "The Drum Also Waltzes", Part 1 and 2 on Volume 1 of the Volume 2 series during the 1994 All-Star recording sessions.^[13]

Death[link]

The grave of Max Roach

Max Roach died in the early morning on August 16, 2007 in Manhattan.^[14] He was survived by five children: sons Daryl and Raoul, and daughters Maxine, Ayo and Dara. Over 1,900 people attended his funeral at Riverside Church in Manhattan, New York City on August 24, 2007. Max Roach was interred at the Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY.

In a funeral tribute to Roach, then-Lieutenant Governor of New York David Paterson compared the musician's courage to that of Paul Robeson, Harriet Tubman and Malcolm X, saying that "No one ever wrote a bad thing about Max Roach's music or his aura until 1960, when he and Charlie Mingus protested the practices of the Newport Jazz Festival."^[15]

Personal life[link]

Two children, son Daryl Keith and daughter Maxine, were born from his first marriage with Mildred Roach. In 1956 he met singer Barbara Jai (Johnson) and had another son, Raoul Jordu. He continued to play as a freelance while studying composition at the Manhattan School of Music. He graduated in 1952. During the period 1962–1970, Roach was married to the singer Abbey Lincoln, who had performed on several of Roach's albums. Twin daughters, Ayodele Nieyela and Dara Rashida, were later born to Roach and his third wife, Janus Adams Roach. He has four grandchildren, Kyle Maxwell Roach, Kadar Elijah Roach, Maxe Samiko Hinds and Skye Sophia Sheffield. Long involved in jazz education, in 1972 he joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst. In the early 2000s, Roach became less active from the onset of hydrocephalus-related complications.

From the 1970s through the mid-1990s Roach taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.^[16]

Honors[link]

He was given a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant in 1988, cited as a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France (1989),^[17] twice awarded the French Grand Prix du Disque, elected to the International Percussive Art Society's Hall of Fame and the Downbeat Magazine Hall of Fame, awarded Harvard Jazz Master, celebrated by Aaron Davis Hall, given eight honorary doctorate degrees, including degrees awarded by Medgar Evers College, CUNY, the University of Bologna, Italy and Columbia University.^[18] While spending the later years of his life at the Mill Basin Sunrise assisted living home, in Brooklyn, Max was honored with a proclamation honoring his musical achievements by Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz.^[19]

In 1986 the London borough of Lambeth named a park in Brixton after him.^[20][21] - Roach was able to officially open it when he visited the UK that year.

Discography[link]

As leader[link]

• 1953 : Max Roach Quartet (Fantasy)
• 1953 : Max Roach and his Sextet (Debut)
• 1953 : Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley (Debut)
• 1956 : Max Roach + 4 (EmArcy)
• 1957 : Jazz in ¾ Time
• 1958 : Max Roach/Art Blakey (with Art Blakey)
• 1958 : Max Roach Plus Four on the Chicago Scene (Mercury)
• 1958 : Max Roach Plus Four at Newport (Mercury)
• 1958 : Max Roach with the Boston Percussion Ensemble (EmArcy)
• 1958 : Deeds not Words (aka Conversation) (Riverside)
• 1958 : Max Roach/Bud Shank - Sessions (with Bud Shank)
• 1958 : The Defiant Ones (with Booker Little)
• 1958 : Deeds, Not Words (with all new cast Ray Draper, Booker Little, George Coleman)
• 1959 : Rich Versus Roach (with Buddy Rich)
• 1961 : Percussion Bitter Sweet (Impulse! Records)(with Mal Waldron)
• 1962 : Speak, Brother, Speak!
• 1962 : It's Time (Impulse! Records)(with Mal Waldron)
• 1964 : Live in Europe: Freedom Now Suite (with Abbey Lincoln)
• 1964 : The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan (with Hasaan ibn Ali)
• 1966 : Drums Unlimited (Atlantic) (Leader, with James Spaulding, Freddie Hubbard, Ronnie Mathews, Jymie Merritt, Roland Alexander)
• 1968 : Sound as Roach (Atlantic)
• 1968 : Members, Don't Git Weary (Atlantic)
• 1971 : Lift Every Voice and Sing (with J.C. White Singers)
• 1976 : Force: Sweet Mao-Suid Afrika '76 (duo with Archie Shepp)
• 1976 : Nommo (Victor)
• 1977 : Max Roach Quartet Live in Tokyo (Denon)
• 1977 : The Loudstar (Horo)
• 1977 : Max Roach Quartet Live In Amsterdam - It's Time (Baystate)
• 1977 : Solos (Baystate)
• 1977 : Streams of Consciousness - duo with Dollar Brand
• 1978 : Confirmation (Fluid Records)
• 1978 : Birth and Rebirth - duo with Anthony Braxton (Black Saint)
• 1979 : The Long March - duo with Archie Shepp (Hathut)
• 1979 : Historic Concerts - duo with Cecil Taylor (Black Saint)
• 1979 : One in Two - Two in One - duo with Anthony Braxton (Hathut)
• 1979 : Pictures in a Frame (Soul Note)
• 1980 : Chattahoochee Red (Columbia)
• 1982 : Swish - duo with Connie Crothers (New Artists)
• 1982 : In the Light (Soul Note)
• 1983 : Live at Vielharmonie (Soul Note)
• 1984 : Scott Free (Soul Note)
• 1984 : It's Christmas Again (Soul Note)
• 1984 : Survivors (Soul Note)
• 1985 : Easy Winners (Soul Note)
• 1986 : Bright Moments (Soul Note)
• 1989 : Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 - duo with Dizzy Gillespie (A&M)
• 1989 : Homage to Charlie Parker (A&M)
• 1991 : To the Max! (Enja)
• 1995 : Max Roach With The New Orchestra Of Boston And The So What Brass Quintet (Blue Note)
• 1999 : Beijing Trio (Asian Improv)
• 2002 : Friendship - with Clark Terry) (Columbia)

With Clifford Brown

• 1954 : Brown And Roach Incorporated
• 1954 : Clifford Brown and Max Roach
• 1954 : Study in Brown
• 1954 : More Study in Brown
• 1955 : Clifford Brown with Strings
• 1956 : Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street
• 1957 : Clifford Brown with Strings
• 1979 : Live at the Bee Hive (Columbia Records)

With M'Boom

• 1973 : Re: Percussion (Strata-East Records)
• 1979 : M'Boom (Columbia)
• 1984 : Collage (Soul Note)
• 1992 : Live at S.O.B.'s New York (Blue Moon Records)

As sideman[link]

• 1944 : Rainbow Mist (with Coleman Hawkins)
• 1944 : Coleman Hawkins and His All Stars (with Coleman Hawkins)
• 1945 : Town Hall, New York, June 22, 1945 (with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker)
• 1945 - 1948: The Complete Savoy Studio Recordings (with Charlie Parker)
• 1946 : Mad Be Bop (with J.J. Johnson)
• 1946 : Opus BeBop (with Stan Getz)
• 1946 : Savoy Jam Party (Don Byas Quartet)
• 1946  : The Hawk Flies (with Coleman Hawkins)
• 1947 : The Bud Powell Trip (with Bud Powell)
• 1947 : Lullaby in Rhythm (with Charlie Parker)
• 1947 : Charlie Parker on Dial (with Charlie Parker)
• 1948 : The Band that Never Was (with Charlie Parker)
• 1948 : Bird on 52nd Street (with Charlie Parker)
• 1948 : Bird at the Roost (with Charlie Parker)
• 1949 : Birth of the Cool (with Miles Davis)
• 1949 - 1953: Charlie Parker – Complete Sessions on Verve (with Charlie Parker)
• 1949 : Charlie Parker in France (with Charlie Parker)
• 1949 : Genesis (with Sonny Stitt)
• 1949 : The Stars of Modern Jazz at Carnegie Hall
• 1950 : The McGhee-Navarro Sextet (with Howard McGhee)
• 1951 : The Amazing Bud Powell (with Bud Powell)
• 1951 : The George Wallington Trip and Septet (with George Wallington)
• 1951 : Conception (with Miles Davis)
• 1952 : New Faces, New Sounds (with Gil Melle)
• 1952 : The Complete Genius (with Thelonious Monk)
• 1952 : Live at Rockland Palace (with Charlie Parker)
• 1953 : The Metronome All Starss. MGM (with Billy Eckstine)
• 1953 : Mambo Jazz (with Joe Holiday)
• 1953 : Yardbird: DC-53 (with Charlie Parker)
• 1953 : Cohn's Tones (with Al Cohn)
• 1953 : Diz and Getz (with Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz)
• 1954 : Daahoud (Mainstream Records)
• 1954 : Dinah Jams Featuring Dinah Washington
• 1955 : Relaxed Piano Moods (with Hazel Scott)
• 1955 : Introducing Jimmy Cleveland And His All Stars (EmArcy)
• 1955 : New Piano Expressions (with John Dennis)
• 1955 : Herbie Nichols Trio (with Herbie Nichols)
• 1955 : Work Time (with Sonny Rollins)
• 1955 : The Charles Mingus Quartet plus Max Roach (with Charles Mingus)
• 1956 : Sonny Rollins Plus 4 (with Sonny Rollins)
• 1956 : Introducing Johnny Griffin (with Johnny Griffin)
• 1956 : The Magnificent Thad Jones (with Thad Jones)
• 1956 : Brilliant Corners (with Thelonious Monk)
• 1956 : Tour de Force (with Sonny Rollins)
• 1956 : The Music of George Gershwin: I Sing of Thee (with Joe Wilder)
• 1956 : Rollins Plays for Bird (Sonny Rollins Quintet)
• 1956 : Saxophone Colossus (with Sonny Rollins)
• 1957 : First Place (with J.J. Johnson)
• 1957 : Sonny Clark Trio
• 1957 : Jazz Contrasts (with Kenny Dorham)
• 1958 : Freedom Suite (with Sonny Rollins)
• 1958 : Shadow Waltz (with Sonny Rollins)
• 1958 : Award-Winning Drummer (Time T)
• 1959 : A Little Sweet (aka. The Many Sides of Max )(Mercury)
• 1959 : Moon-Faced and Starry-Eyed (Mercury)
• 1960 : Quiet as it's Kept (Mercury)
• 1960 : Tommy Turrentine (with Tommy Turrentine)
• 1960 : Stan 'The Man' Turrentine
• 1960 : Again! (Affinity)
• 1960 : Parisian Sketches (Mercury)
• 1960 : We Insist! - Freedom Now (Candid)
• 1960 : Long as You're Living (Enja)
• 1960 : Uhuru Afrika (with Randy Weston)
• 1960 : Sonny Clark Trio (with Sonny Clark)
• 1961 : Straight Ahead (with Abbey Lincoln)
• 1961 : Out Front (with Booker Little)
• 1961 : Paris Blues (with Duke Ellington)
• 1962 : Money Jungle (with Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus)
• 1962 : Drum Suite (with Slide Hampton)
• 1966 : Stuttgart 1963 Concert (with Sonny Rollins)
• 1972 : Newport in New York ‘72 (Roach on 2 tracks only)
• 1975 : The Bop Session (with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, John Lewis, Hank Jones and Percy Heath)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Max Roach 1924-2007: Thousands Pay Tribute to the Legendary Jazz Drummer, Educator, Activist
• Max Roach at the Hard Bop Homepage
• Discography at Discogs
• Discography and Sessionography
• New York Times obituary
• New York Sun Obituary
• Obituary and Public Tributes
• Slate Magazine Article
• Max Roach Multimedia Directory

Dr Kenneth Kaunda
—  District municipality  —
Location in South Africa
Country	South Africa
Province	North West
Seat	Klerksdorp
Local municipalities	List Ventersdorp Tlokwe City of Matlosana Maquassi Hills
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor (2012-02)[1]	Boitumelo Moloi
Area
• Total	14,642 km2 (5,653 sq mi)
Population (2010)[2][3]
• Total	635,422
• Density	43.4/km2 (112/sq mi)
• Households	182,288
Racial makeup (2007)[4]
• Black African	81.5%
• Coloured	3.6%
• Indian/Asian	0.4%
• White	14.5%
First languages (2001)[5]
• Tswana	44.0%
• Afrikaans	19.4%
• Sotho	16.2%
• Xhosa	14.0%
• Other	6.4%
Time zone	SAST (UTC+2)
Municipal code	DC40

Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality (formerly Southern District Municipality^[6]) is one of the 4 districts of North West province of South Africa. The seat of Kaunda District is Klerksdorp. The majority of its 599 674 people speak Setswana (2001 Census). The district code is DC40. The district was formerly known as the Southern District Municipality.

Geography[link]

Neighbours[link]

Kaunda District is surrounded (clockwise) by:

• Bojanala Platinum District Municipality to the north
• West Rand District Municipality (Gauteng province) to the east
• Sedibeng District Municipality (Gauteng province) to the east
• Fezile Dabi District Municipality (Free State province) to the south-east
• Lejweleputswa District Municipality (Free State province) to the south
• Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality to the south-west
• Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality to the north-west

Local municipalities[link]

The district contains the following local municipalities:

Demographics[link]

The following statistics are from the 2001 census.

Gender[link]

Ethnic group[link]

Age[link]

Politics[link]

Election results[link]

Election results for Kaunda District in the South African general election, 2004.

• Population 18 and over: 401 692 [66.99% of total population]
• Total votes: 226 396 [37.75% of total population]
• Voting % estimate: 56.36% votes as a % of population 18 and over

References[link]

• Municipal Demarcation Board
• Stats SA Census 2001 page
• Independent Electoral Commission 2004 election results
• Klerksdorper.com The Number One Internet Site for Klerksdorp
• Dr. Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality website

1. ^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. http://www.gcis.gov.za/gcis/gcis_list.jsp?id=14&heading=Executive%20Mayors. Retrieved 22 February 2012. 
2. ^ "Metro/District Council population estimates by gender and year (based on 2010 projection)". Statistics South Africa. http://www.statssa.gov.za/timeseriesdata/pxweb2006/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=Mid-year%20estimates%20by%20district%20council,%20gender%20and%20year%20%282010%20projection%29&ti=Metro%2FDistrict+Council+population+estimates+by+gender+and+year+%28based+on+2010+projection%29&path=../Database/South%20Africa/Mid-Year%20Estimates/&lang=1. Retrieved 22 February 2012. 
3. ^ "Community Survey 2007 by municipality, type of main dwelling and population group of household". Statistics South Africa. http://www.statssa.gov.za/timeseriesdata/pxweb2006/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=Type_of_main_dwelling_municipalities&ti=Community+Survey+2007+by+municipality%2C+type+of+main+dwelling+and+population+group+of++household+head&path=../Database/South%20Africa/Community%20Survey%202007/Households/Municipality/&lang=1. Retrieved 22 February 2012. 
4. ^ "Community Survey 2007 by municipality, population group, gender and age group". Statistics South Africa. http://www.statssa.gov.za/timeseriesdata/pxweb2006/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=agegrp_gender__popgrp&ti=Community+Survey+2007+by+municipality%2C+population+group%2C+gender+and+age+group&path=../Database/South%20Africa/Community%20Survey%202007/Persons/Municipality/&lang=1. Retrieved 22 February 2012. 
5. ^ "Census 2001 by municipalities, language, population group and gender.". Statistics South Africa. http://www.statssa.gov.za/timeseriesdata/pxweb2006/Database/South%20Africa/Population%20Census/Census%202001%20-%20NEW%20Demarcation%20boundaries%20as%20at%209%20December%202005/Municipality%20level%20-%20Persons/Municipality%20level%20-%20Persons.asp. Retrieved 22 February 2012. 
6. ^ "New Municipal Names". Municipal Demarcation Board. http://www.demarcation.org.za/Contacts/new_munic_names.aspx. Retrieved 2009-03-08. 

Coordinates: 26°50′S 26°35′E / 26.833°S 26.583°E / -26.833; 26.583

Sadao Watanabe (渡辺 貞夫, Watanabe Sadao^?) (born Utsunomiya, Japan, February 1, 1933) is an influential Japanese jazz musician who plays the alto saxophone, sopranino saxophone and flute. He is known for his Bossa Nova recordings, although his work encompasses a large range of styles with collaborations from musicians all over the world. Sadao first began learning music at the age of 18, and started performing professionally in 1953. By 1958 he had firmly established himself as a world-class saxophonist having performed with leading musicians and quartets. In 1962 he left Japan to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1995 the college awarded him an honorary doctorate degree for his contributions to music.^[1] Among his more prestigious awards are the Order of the Rising Sun, the imperial medal of honour for his contribution to the arts, numerous cultural awards from around the world, the Fumio Nanri award, and his cities first honour award. In addition to his musical career, Watanabe has also published six photography books in Japan.^[2]

Discography[link]

As leader[link]

• 1961 SADAO WATANABE
• 1965 SADAO WATANABE PLAYS
• 1966 GOIN' HOME MODERN JAZZ ALBUM
• 1966 TAKT JAZZ JAZZ&BOSSA
• 1967: Sadao Watanabe & Charlie Mariano: Iberian Waltz (Denon)
• 1967 NABESADA & CHARLIE
• 1967 BOSSA BEAT COLLECTION
• 1967 JAZZ SAMBA
• 1967 MY ROMANCE
• 1967 BOSSA NOVA '67
• 1967 BOSSA NOVA CONCERT
• 1967 MUSIC BREAK
• 1967 ENCORE!! JAZZ & BOSSA / SADAO MEETS SHARPS & FLATS
• 1968 WE GOT A NEW BAG / SADAO AND CHARLIE AGAIN
• 1968 SADAO MEETS BRAZILIAN FRIENDS / SADAO & BRAZILIAN8
• 1968 SADAO PLAYS BEATLES AND BACHARACH
• 1969 SWING JOURNAL JAZZ WORKSHOP
• 1969 PASTORAL
• 1969 SONG BOOK
• 1969 SADAO WATANABE LIVE AT THE JUNK
• 1969: Dedicated to Charlie Parker with Terumasa Hino, Masanaga Harada, Fumio Watanabe, Kazuo Yashiro
• 1970 SADAO WATANABE AT MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL
• 1970: Round Trip (Universe) with Jack DeJohnette, Miroslav Vitouš, Chick Corea
• 1970 COLLABORATION QUARTET with MASABUMI KIKUCHI SEXTET
• 1971 PAYSAGES
• 1972 SADAO WATANABE
• 1973 OPEN ROAD
• 1973 KENYA YA AFRICA MEETS INTER-AFRICAN THEATRE GROUP
• 1974 MBALI AFRICA LIVE
• 1974 SADAO WATANABE AT “PIT INN”
• 1975 SWISS AIR
• 1975 PAMOJA
• 1976: I’m Old Fashioned (Sony) with Ron Carter, Hank Jones
• 1976 SADAO WATANABE RECITAL
• 1977 MY DEAR LIFE
• 1977 BIRD OF PARADISE
• 1977 AUTUMN BLOW featuring LEE RITENOUR & HIS GENTLE THOUGHTS
• 1977: Birds of Passage (Elektra) with Ron Carter, George Duke, Hank Jones, Hubert Laws, Kazumi Watanabe, Tony Williams, Jimmy Haslip, Alex Acuña, Diana Acuna,
• 1978 CALIFORNIA SHOWER
• 1979 MORNING ISLAND
• 1980 HOW'S EVERYTHING
• 1981: Orange Express with Dave Grusin, George Benson, Bobby Broom, Marcus Miller, Budddy Williams
• 1983 FILL UP THE NIGHT
• 1983 CARNIVAL with Ron Carter, Hank Jones, Tony Williams
• 1984 RENDEZVOUS
• 1985 MAISHA
• 1985: Parker’s Mood with Seigen Ono, James Williams, Jeff Tain Watts, Charnett Moffett
• 1985 TOKYO DATING
• 1986 GOOD TIME FOR LOVE
• 1988 ELIS
• 1988 MADE IN CORACAO TOQUINHO
• 1989 FRONT SEAT
• 1991 SWEET DEAL
• 1992 A NIGHT WITH STRINGS
• 1993 EARTH STEP
• 1994 IN TEMPO
• 1993 A NIGHT WITH STRINGS Vol.2
• 1994 A NIGHT WITH STRINGS Vol.3 / SADAO PLAYS PARKER
• 1997 Go Straight Ahead ’n Make a Left with Bernard Wright, Charley Drayton, Mike Flythe,
• 1997 KUROI HITOMI SONG BOOK
• 1998 VIAJANDO
• 1999: Remembrance (verve) with Robin Eubanks, Billy Drummond, Jim Anderson, Cyrus Chestnut, Romero Lubambo, Christian McBride, Nicholas Payton
• 2000 SADAO 2000
• 2000 MINHA SAUDADE
• 2001 SADAO WATANABE MY DEAR LIFE 50th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION
• 2003 WHEEL OF LIFE
• 200? SKETCHES OF NATURE
• 2005 ONE FOR YOU
• 2005 Broadcast Tracks '69-'72
• 2005 Sadao & Charlie Again
• 2007 BASIE'S AT NIGHT
• 2009 INTO TOMORROW

As sideman[link]

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With Chico Hamilton

• El Chico (Impulse!, 1965)

Honors[link]

• Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, 2005.^[2]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sadao Watanabe's official website
• Sadao Watanabe discography