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- ↑ Yoshihide, Otomo "Leaving the Jazz Café", Resonance Volume 4 Number 2, 1996, p.7 note 5. Yoshihide notes that "While many of this first generation have died, or for practical reasons have stopped playing free music, or have sought protection within the small shelter of jazz, Yoshizawa [Motoharu] is one of the few figures who continues openly to collaborate in free improvisation with various musicians to this day." Yoshizawa Motoharu died in 1998.
- ↑ Henritzi, Michel, (September 2008) "Nihon Free Jazz – interview with Yoshisaburo Toyozumi" – Revue et Corrigee Issue 77
- ↑ Lewis, George A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (2008) University of Chicago Press, p. 285
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- ↑ BBC Radio 3 Jazz on 3, 12 October 2009 programme details
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- ↑ Fete Quaqua musicians' biographies
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- ↑ Eyles, John "Sabu Toyozumi: Kosai Yujyo", All About Jazz, 3 August 2012
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