Kazumi Watanabe is a Japanese guitarist. Other guitarists such as Luke Takamura and Sugizo have cited him as an influence.
The Beach Boys is the 25th studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on June 10, 1985. Produced by Steve Levine, the album is the band's first after the drowning of founding member Dennis Wilson. It was also the band's first album to be recorded digitally and the last released by James William Guercio's Caribou Records. The record sold poorly, charting at number 52 in the U.S. and number 60 in the UK.
The Ovation Guitar Company is a manufacturer of string instruments. Ovation primarily manufactures steel-string acoustic guitars and nylon-string guitars, often with pickups for electric amplification. In 2015, it became a subsidiary of Drum Workshop after being acquired from KMCMusicorp.
Ai no Dai 6 Kan is the sixth album from the J-pop idol group Morning Musume. The album was released on December 8, 2004.
Kilowatt is an album by jazz fusion guitarist Kazumi Watanabe, originally released on audio cassette in 1989. In 1991 it was released again on cassette, CD and LP.
sympathy is Hitomi Takahashi's first album to be released under gr8! records, a division of Sony Records. The album was released on March 1, 2006, and three singles preceded it.
Jidai (時代), subtitled Time Goes Around, is the 21st studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in October 1993. Like some previous materials such as Okaerinasai and Change , the album mainly consists of songs which she wrote for other singers.
First Time (ファーストタイム) is the first album from the J-pop idol girl group Morning Musume. It was released on July 8, 1998, and sold 310,290 copies. It featured only 1st and 2nd generation members had ten of their top selling songs from the beginning of their career, including "Ai no Tane" and "Morning Coffee".
"Stolen Moments" is a jazz standard composed by Oliver Nelson. It is a 16-bar piece though the solos are on a conventional minor blues structure. The recording of the song on Nelson's 1961 album, The Blues and the Abstract Truth, led to it being more generally covered. The tune was given lyrics when Mark Murphy recorded his version in 1978.
The Spice of Life is an album by jazz fusion guitarist Kazumi Watanabe, with Jeff Berlin on bass and Bill Bruford on drums. It was originally released in 1987, under the PolyGram label.
Yoru o Yuke (夜を往け) is the 18th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in June 1990. The album includes remix version of "Ashita", a top-20 charting smash hit single released in 1989 and certified gold by the RIAJ. After two months from release of the album, "with" was released as a single. The song was featured in the 1991 film My Sons, directed by Yoji Yamada.
Tokyo Joe is a 1982 album by Ryuichi Sakamoto and guitarist Kazumi Watanabe. It is a compilation of tracks from the albums Thousand Knives (1978), Kylyn (1979), Kylyn Live (1979) and the track "Tokyo Joe" which appeared on a various artists anthology Tokyo-Paris-London-New York, Dancing Night. The album was originally released in Japan in 1982, then re-released also in the Western countries in the 1990s.
One for All is a 1999 album by Kazumi Watanabe. It was recorded live in New York, at the Bottom Line, on 31 March 1999 between 7:30 PM and 9:30 PM, according to the album's booklet. It features many famous musicians from all over the world such as Akiko Yano, John Patitucci and Larry Coryell.
To Chi Ka is a fusion album by Kazumi Watanabe. It was recorded and mixed in March 1980 during a very prolific period for Watanabe and then released in May 1980. The album features some of the most acclaimed jazz and rock musicians; part of them will follow Watanabe in other projects, too. The album offers many improvisational tracks.
Mo' Bop II is an album by guitarist Kazumi Watanabe. It was released in 2004 and features only two other members in the lineup, besides Watanabe. The album is part of a project called "New Electric Trio" which began in 2003 with Mo' Bop and continued till 2006 with Mo' Bop III. The album is characterized by a heavy fusion sound.
The Spice of Life Too is an album by jazz fusion guitarist Kazumi Watanabe; featuring Bill Bruford, Jeff Berlin and Peter Vettese. It was released on the Gramavision record label in 1988. The original title released in Japan is "The Spice of Life 2" with a different cover.
Together is a jazz album by the American guitarists Larry Coryell and Emily Remler, released by Concord Jazz in 1985. They recorded it directly to two track the same year.
Summer Nerves is an album which recorded a so-called "Martial arts session" between Jazz fusion musicians and Japanese rock musicians, led by Ryuichi Sakamoto at the time of the formation of Yellow Magic Orchestra. "Martial arts session" of this album is regarded as a prototype of Kazumi Watanabe's "Kylyn session".
Endless Way is the third album by Japanese guitarist Kazumi Watanabe. The album was released as a vinyl LP by the Better Days label of Nippon Columbia in 1975.
Olive's Step is the 6th album by Japanese guitarist Kazumi Watanabe. The album was released on LP by Better Days label of Nippon Columbia in 1977.
