''Farewell and Welcome Live 1998'' is a live recording by the Japanese Jazz fusion band

T-Square A T-square is a technical drawing instrument used by draftsmen primarily as a guide for drawing horizontal lines on a drafting table. The instrument is named after its resemblance to the letter T, with a long shaft called the "blade" and a sh ...

released on July 18, 1998 and made available on VHS. The concert was held to bid farewell to Masato Honda and Hirotaka Izumi who were leaving the band, and to welcome their replacements Takahiro Miyazaki and Tadashi Namba. The Live Concert took place at Chicken George in Kobe, Japan, on April 28, 1998. Many songs were performed on this setlist that were not included on the VHS release.

Track listing

VHS

Sources

Full Performance

Source

Part 1

# Megalith # Romantic City # Play For You # Takarajima # Bad Moon # Omens of Love

Part 2

# The Seven Wonders # Sailing The Ocean # One Step Beyond # Explorer

Part 3

# Miss You # Jubilee # Truth

First Encore

# Forgotten Saga # Japanese Soul Brothers

Second Encore

# Knight's Song # Little Mermaid

Personnel

* Hirotaka Izumi - Keyboards,

Acoustic Piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

* Hiroyuki Noritake - Drums *

Masahiro Andoh is a Japanese composer and Guitarist from Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. From 1976 to 2021 he was the Guitarist and Leader of the Japanese Jazz-Fusion band T-Square. He was also one-third of Ottottrio, a supergroup led by three ...

- Acoustic &

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Masato Honda Masato Honda (本田雅人, born November 13, 1962), is a Japanese saxophone player, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. Born in Nakamura City, Kochi Prefecture (now Shimanto City), he graduated from Kunitachi College of Music. He is most well ...

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, EWI * Mitsuru Sutoh -

Bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

* Tadashi Namba - Keyboards * Takahiro Miyazaki -

References

{{Authority control 1998 live albums