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Kilowatt (album)
''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. Track listing All tracks by Kazumi Watanabe except where noted. #"1000 Mega" - 4:58 #"Capri" - 4:10 #"No One" (Watanabe/Brunel) - 5:33 #"Jive" (Watanabe/Brunel) - 3:48 #"Papyrus" - 4:50 #"Sunspin" - 5:15 #"Pretty Soon" (Brunel) - 5:37 #"Bernard" (Brunel) - 4:42 #"Dolphin Dance" ( Herbie Hancock) - 6:59 #"Good Night Machines" (Watanabe/Moraz/Brunel) - 6:18 Personnel * Kazumi Watanabe - guitars, synth guitars, keyboards * Bunny Brunel - bass, synth bass, keyboards * John Wackerman - drums, synth drums, electric vibes Additional Musicians * Wayne Shorter - sax (2, 8) * Patrick Moraz - keyboards (1, 2, 4, 8, 10) * Alex Acuna Alex is a given name. It can refer to a shortened version of Alexander, Alexandra, Alexis. People Multiple *Alex Brown (other), multiple people *Alex Gordon (other), multip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazumi Watanabe
is a Japanese guitarist. Other guitarists such as Luke Takamura and Sugizo have cited him as an influence. Career Watanabe learned guitar at the age of 12 from Sadanori Nakamure at the Yamaha Music School in Tokyo. He released his first album in 1971. In 1979, he formed a jazz rock band with some of Japan's leading studio musicians, and recorded the album ''Kylyn''. During that year, he toured with the pop band Yellow Magic Orchestra. In the 1980s, he toured as guest soloist with Steps, the Brecker Brothers, and Word of Mouth, led by Jaco Pastorius. Watanabe created the jazz-rock/jazz-fusion band Mobo in 1983 with Mitsuru Sawamura (saxophone), Ichiko Hashimoto (piano), Gregg Lee (bass), Shuichi Murakami (drums), and Kiyohiko Senba. During the eighties Watanabe released the jazz-rock albums ''To Chi Ka'' (1980), ''Mobo Club'' (1983), ''Mobo Splash'' (1985), and ''Spice of Life'' (1987). A DVD was issued from the tour which featured drummer Bill Bruford and bassist Jeff Berlin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in rock and roll started to be used by jazz musicians, particularly those who had grown up listening to rock and roll. Jazz fusion arrangements vary in complexity. Some employ groove-based vamps fixed to a single key or a single chord with a simple, repeated melody. Others use elaborate chord progressions, unconventional time signatures, or melodies with counter-melodies. These arrangements, whether simple or complex, typically include improvised sections that can vary in length, much like in other forms of jazz. As with jazz, jazz fusion can employ brass and woodwind instruments such as trumpet and saxophone, but other instruments often substitute for these. A jazz fusion band is less likely to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spice Of Life Too
''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. Reception AllMusic awarded the album with 4.5 stars and its review by Paul Kohler states: "A continuation of Spice of Life with stronger compositions and a hint of softer tones, it's very nice!"Kohler, P. AllMusic Review: "The Spice of Life Too"accessed 2 April 2010 Track listing # "Andre" (Kazumi Watanabe) – 5:10 # "We the Planet" (Watanabe) – 5:20 # "Fu Bu Ki " (Watanabe, Bill Bruford, Jeff Berlin) – 5:10 # "Rain" (Watanabe) – 4:57 # "Small Wonder" (Bruford) – 5:05 # "Concrete Cow" (Watanabe, Berlin) – 5:22 # "Kaimon" (Watanabe) – 5:35 # "Men and Angels" ( Bruford) – 5:35 Personnel *Kazumi Watanabe – guitars *Bill Bruford – Simmons SDX electronic drum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and composer. Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. In the 1970s, Hancock experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles, utilizing a wide array of synthesizers and electronics. It was during this period that he released perhaps his best-known and most influential album, ''Head Hunters''. Hancock's best-known compositions include " Cantaloupe Island", " Watermelon Man", " Maiden Voyage", and " Chameleon", all of which are jazz standards. During the 1980s, he enjoyed a hit single with the electronic instrumental " Rockit", a collaboration with bassist/producer Bill Laswell. Hancock has won an Academy Award and 14 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for his 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunny Brunel
Bernard "Bunny" Brunel is a French-American bass guitarist who has played with Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Wayne Shorter. He is a founding member of the jazz fusion band CAB and is involved in musical instrument design and film and television scoring. He was a bass and music teacher for jazz bass player Kyle Eastwood. Discography As leader * ''Touch'' (Warner Bros., 1979) * ''Ivanhoe'' (Inner City, 1982) * ''Momentum'' (America, 1989) * ''Dedication'' (Musidisc, 1992) * ''For You to Play'' (Media 7, 1994) * ''Bunny Brunel's L.A. Zoo'' (Tone Center, 1998) * ''Led Boots'' (Mascot, 2000) * ''Cafe Au Lait'' (Brunel Music, 2004) * ''Touch'' (Nikaia, 2006) * ''Invent Your Future'' (Nikaia, 2015) With CAB * '' CAB'' (Tone Center, 2000) * ''CAB 2'' (Tone Center, 2000) * ''Live'' (2002) * ''CAB 4'' (Favored Nations, 2003) * '' Theatre de Marionnettes'' (2009) * ''Live On Sunset'' (Nikaia, 2011) Singles * ''Fusion Holidays'', CAB, featuring Roman Miroshnichenko, (Nikaia, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Shorter came to prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he joined Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, and then co-founded the jazz fusion band Weather Report. He has recorded over 20 albums as a bandleader. Many Shorter compositions have become jazz standards, and his music has earned worldwide recognition, critical praise and commendation. Shorter has won 11 Grammy Awards. He is acclaimed for his mastery of the soprano saxophone since switching his focus from the tenor in the late 1960s and beginning an extended reign in 1970 as ''Down Beat''s annual poll-winner on that instrument, winning the critics' poll for 10 consecutive years and the readers' for 18. ''The New York Times Ben Ratliff described Shorter in 2008 as "probably jazz's greatest living small-group composer and a contender for greatest living improv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Moraz
Patrick Philippe Moraz (born 24 June 1948) is a Swiss musician, film composer and songwriter, best known for his tenures as keyboardist in the rock bands Yes and The Moody Blues. Born into a musical family, Moraz learned music at a young age and studied at the Lausanne Conservatory. He began a music career in the 1960s as a jazz musician, performing with his quartet and quintet, groups that performed across Europe and won several awards. He formed the short-lived progressive rock group Mainhorse in 1969, and began work scoring films. In 1974, he formed another band, Refugee, and recorded one album before he joined Yes later the same year. Moraz was a member of Yes until 1976, and during this time he also started a solo career, beginning with the 1976 album ''The Story of I''. Moraz was a member of The Moody Blues from 1978 to 1991. Since then, he has worked on various solo projects. Early life Moraz was born on 24 June 1948 on an aeroplane, though Morges, Switzerland has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Acuna
Alex is a given name. It can refer to a shortened version of Alexander, Alexandra, Alexis. People Multiple *Alex Brown (other), multiple people * Alex Gordon (other), multiple people *Alex Harris (other), multiple people *Alex Jones (other), multiple people * Alexander Johnson (other), multiple people *Alex Taylor (other), multiple people Politicians *Alex Allan (born 1951), British diplomat *Alex Attwood (born 1959), Northern Irish politician *Alex Kushnir (born 1978), Israeli politician *Alex Salmond (born 1954), Scottish politician, former First Minister of Scotland Baseball players *Alex Avila (born 1987), American baseball player *Alex Bregman (born 1994), American baseball player *Alex Gardner (baseball) (1861–1921), Canadian baseball player *Alex Katz (baseball) (born 1994), American baseball player *Alex Pompez (1890–1974), American executive in Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball scout *Alex Rodrigue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Albums
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing a large Exxon Valdez oil spill, oil spill; The Fall of the Berlin Wall begins the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and heralds German reunification; The United States United States invasion of Panama, invades Panama to depose Manuel Noriega; The Singing Revolution led to the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the Soviet Union; The stands of Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, Yorkshire, where the Hillsborough disaster occurred; 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Students demonstrate in Tiananmen Square, Beijing; many are killed by forces of the Chinese Communist Party., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1989 Loma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazumi Watanabe Albums
Kazumi ( ja, カズミ, かずみ) is a Japanese given name that can be given to either sex. Possible writings *和美, "peace, beauty" *一巳, "one, sign of the snake" *一美, "one, beauty" *一実, "one, truth" *和海, "peace, sea" *数魅, "number, fascination" *数巳, "number, sign of the snake" *和満, "peace, satisfy, full" The name Kazumi can be written with kanji characters (as listed above), or it can be written using the katakana and hiragana writing systems. In hiragana, Kazumi is written as かずみ, while in katakana, it is written as カズミ. People with the given name *, Japanese bobsledder * Kazumi Akedo (明戸 和巳), Japanese Go player *Kazumi Fujita (藤田 一巳), Japanese mecha designer *, Japanese politician *Kazumi Kazui (一井 かずみ), Japanese manga artist *Kazumi Kishimoto (岸本 一美), Japanese figure skater *Kazumi Kurigami (操上 和美), Japanese photographer *Kazumi Matsuo (松尾 和美), Japanese marathon runner *, Japanese voll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
