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- Kazumi_Watanabe abstract "Kazumi Watanabe (渡辺香津美) is a jazz and jazz fusion guitarist, from Tokyo, Japan. He was born on October 14, 1953.Watanabe learned to play guitar from Sadanori Nakamure, one of Japan's grandmaster guitarists. He released his first recording in 1971, and quickly became a promising guitarist in his own right. In 1979, he formed an all-star band with some of Japan's leading studio musicians, and recorded the album Kylyn, which is considered a masterpiece in fusion music. That year, he also was a touring musician with Yellow Magic Orchestra.During the eighties Watanabe released a considerable number of jazz-rock albums. To Chi Ka (1980), with its funk influences and bright sound, is probably the most famous early title. Some latter albums, such as Mobo Club (1983) and Mobo Splash (1985) display more experimental tendencies. But the most famous of all is Spice of Life (1987) which is written in a strongly melodic style. A DVD has been issued from the tour in which the music was played with drummer Bill Bruford and bassist Jeff Berlin (who also play on the studio record). In the 1990s Kazumi assembled an all-Japanese line-up called Resonance Vox (Vagabonde Suzuki on bass, Rikiya Higashihara on drums, Tomohiro Yahiro on percussion). This band has released several adventurous fusion albums.Watanabe has worked with numerous musicians such as Steve Gadd, Tony Levin, Jeff Berlin, Bill Bruford, Sly and Robbie, Wayne Shorter, Patrick Moraz, Marcus Miller, Richard Bona, and Peter Erskine. Since 1996, he has been a visiting professor of music at Senzoku Gakuen College. He endorses Steinberger and Paul Reed Smith guitars, and has been chosen Best Jazzman 24 years in a row by Swing Journal magazine's annual poll.".
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- Kazumi_Watanabe birthDate "1953-10-14".
- Kazumi_Watanabe birthPlace Tokyo.
- Kazumi_Watanabe birthYear "1953".
- Kazumi_Watanabe genre Jazz.
- Kazumi_Watanabe genre Jazz_fusion.
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- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Beyond_the_Infinite_(Kazumi_Watanabe_album).
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- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Category:1953_births.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Category:Japanese_jazz_guitarists.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Category:Japanese_session_musicians.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Category:Jazz_fusion_guitarists.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Category:Living_people.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Dandyism_(album).
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Dear_Tokyo.
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- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Dogatana.
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- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Forbidden_Plays.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Ganesia.
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- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Infinite_(Kazumi_Watanabe_album).
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Jazz.
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- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Jigo-Jtoku.
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- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Kilowatt_(album).
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Kylyn.
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- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Mermaid_Boulevard.
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- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Mo_Bop.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Mo_Bop_II.
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- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Mobo_Club.
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- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink One_for_All_(Kazumi_Watanabe_album).
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- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Pandora_(Kazumi_Watanabe_album).
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Patrick_Moraz.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Paul_Reed_Smith.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Peter_Erskine.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Resonance_Vox.
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- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Romanesque_(Kazumi_Watanabe_album).
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Sadanori_Nakamure.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Senzoku_Gakuen.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Senzoku_Gakuen_College.
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- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Steinberger.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Steve_Gadd.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Talk_You_All_Tight.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink The_Spice_of_Life_(Kazumi_Watanabe_album).
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink The_Spice_of_Life_Too.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink To_Chi_Ka.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Tokyo.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Tokyo,_Japan.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Tokyo_Joe_(album).
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Tony_Levin.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Tricoroll.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Village_in_Bubbles.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Wayne_Shorter.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLink Yellow_Magic_Orchestra.
- Kazumi_Watanabe wikiPageWikiLinkText "Kazumi Watanabe".
- Kazumi_Watanabe background "non_vocal_instrumentalist".
- Kazumi_Watanabe birthDate "1953-10-14".
- Kazumi_Watanabe birthPlace Tokyo.
- Kazumi_Watanabe birthPlace Tokyo,_Japan.
- Kazumi_Watanabe caption "Watanabe performing in 2011".
- Kazumi_Watanabe dateOfBirth "1953-10-14".
- Kazumi_Watanabe genre Jazz.
- Kazumi_Watanabe genre Jazz_fusion.
- Kazumi_Watanabe hasPhotoCollection Kazumi_Watanabe.
- Kazumi_Watanabe imageSize "240".
- Kazumi_Watanabe instrument "Guitar".
- Kazumi_Watanabe name "Kazumi Watanabe".
- Kazumi_Watanabe name "Watanabe, Kazumi".
- Kazumi_Watanabe occupation "Musician, composer".