Word: hattori
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blaze is Ryoichi Hattori, 43, a jolly, wavey-haired fellow whom many Japanese jazz composers call sensei (teacher). Hattori teaches chiefly by object lesson: he has written more than 2,000 songs, many of them smash hits. Last week his Aoi Sammyaku (Blue Mountains) headed the Japanese radio hit parade...
After he finishes his next one, a baseball boogie, Tunesmith Ryochi Hattori intends to go on to higher things, like the kind of music Gershwin wrote...