Norio Maeda

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Norio Nobuhito Maeda (前田 憲男, Maeda Norio, December 6, 1934 – November 25, 2018 Osaka Prefecture) was a Japanese jazz composer and pianist.

Maeda learned piano as a young child, and moved to Tokyo to play and arrange jazz professionally in 1955. There he played with Shungo Sawada's ensemble and founded a group called the Wind Breakers. He joined the West Liners, led by , as a pianist and arranger in 1959. Known as a composer, he penned pieces for , Tatsuya Takahashi, Nobuo Hara, and Toshiyuki Miyama. He also founded We 3 with  [ja; de] and Takeshi Inomata, and later worked with Inomata again in a trio with  [ja; de].

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• Yozo Iwanami and Kazunori Sugiyama, "Norio Maeda". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edn, ed. Barry Kernfeld.