Hideo Shiraki (白木秀雄; 1 January 1933, in Tokyo – 31 August 1972) was a Japanese jazz drummer and bandleader, best known for his work in the 1950s and 1960s.
[1] He studied percussion at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts and, during this period, played with Masashi Nagao's Blue Coats.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, his quintet was popular in Japan and was associated with the "funky boom" craze for hard bop.
Performers on the album included Hidehiko Matsumoto on tenor and flute and Yuzuru Sera on piano.
On July 22, 1966, he played with the John Coltrane quintet in Tokyo while the group was touring Japan.