Fumio Nanri

Fumio Nanri (南里 文雄, Nanri Fumio, December 24, 1910 – August 4, 1975) was a Japanese jazz trumpeter nicknamed the "Satchmo of Japan" by Louis Armstrong. He was one of Japan's first jazz musicians to become known outside his native country. A long-standing prestigious music award, "The Fumio Nanri Award", was named after him.

Fumio Nanri was born at Minamikyuhoji-machi, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He was the youngest child in the six brothers/sisters and his father died after four days of his birth. For that reason he often changed his address; Hiroshima Prefecture where his mother's family home were in, Kyoto Prefecture where the family his elder sister married into, Kobe where his elder brother lived in, and various locations. He entered 高島屋少年音楽隊 (Takashimaya Shōnen Ongakutai), the boys' band of Takashimaya, in 1925 after he graduated from a senior high school in Kobe. He played at a dance hall in Kobe after the boys' band disbanded. Then he moved to Tokyo in 1928 and entered Ichiro Ida (井田一郎, Ida Ichirō)'s band (the second term of Cherry Land (チェリーランド, cherīrand)), but mere two months after he ran away form the band.

Nanri moved to Shanghai in 1929, and studied the piano with Teddy Weatherford. He went to San Francisco in 1932, and that year he entered Shigeya Kikuchi (菊地滋弥, Kikuchi Shigeya)'s band which was playing at Florida in Tameike (溜池, Tameike), Akasaka, Tokyo. In 1934 he formed his own band, Fumio Nanri and Hot Peppers, which accompanied singer Dick Mine (ディック・ミネ, Dikku Mine) when Mine recorded.

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