| Gagaku & Beyond | ||||
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| Released | 1976 | |||
| Recorded | April 1 & 14, 1974 | |||
| Studio | Mori Studios, Tokyo, Japan | |||
| Genre | Jazz fusion, World music | |||
| Length | 48:58 | |||
| Label | Finnadar/Atlantic SR 9014 | |||
| Producer | Herbie Mann | |||
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Gagaku & Beyond is an album by jazz flautist Herbie Mann featuring shakuhachi player Minoru Muraoka which was recorded in Japan in 1974 but only released on Atlantic Records subsidiarly label, Finnadar, in 1976. [1]
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| Allmusic |   [2] |
Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating: "Gagaku & Beyond had Mann working in the world music fusion genre with great success long before new age or "world music" were ever marketing catch phrases. ...this is, along with Mann's more soul- and bossa-oriented recordings, one of his most essential works: groundbreaking, heartrendingly beautiful, and full of deep, contemplative soul". [2]
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