is a 1970 album released by
Hōzan Yamamoto
Hōzan Yamamoto (山本 邦山, ''Yamamoto Hōzan''; October 6, 1937 - February 10, 2014 in Ōtsu, Shiga prefecture) was a Japanese shakuhachi player, composer and lecturer.
Yamamoto started playing the Japanese bamboo flute shakuhachi at the a ...
, featuring Western jazz instrumentalists such as bassist
Gary Peacock
Gary George Peacock (May 12, 1935September 4, 2020) was an American jazz double bassist. He recorded a dozen albums under his own name, and also performed and recorded with major jazz figures such as avant garde saxophonist Albert Ayler, pianist ...
, pianist
Masabumi Kikuchi and drummer
Hiroshi Murakami. It is an early example of fusion experiments with
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
and
Japanese classical music.
Track listing
:''All compositions by Masabumi Kikuchi''
#Prologue (序) - 3:10
#Silver World (銀界) - 12:22
#Stone Garden of Ryōan Temple (竜安寺の石庭) - 10:08
#A Heavy Shower (驟雨) - 9:46
#Sawanose (沢之瀬) - 11:46
#Epilogue (終) - 2:52
Personnel
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Hōzan Yamamoto
Hōzan Yamamoto (山本 邦山, ''Yamamoto Hōzan''; October 6, 1937 - February 10, 2014 in Ōtsu, Shiga prefecture) was a Japanese shakuhachi player, composer and lecturer.
Yamamoto started playing the Japanese bamboo flute shakuhachi at the a ...
–
shakuhachi flute
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Masabumi Kikuchi – piano
*
Gary Peacock
Gary George Peacock (May 12, 1935September 4, 2020) was an American jazz double bassist. He recorded a dozen albums under his own name, and also performed and recorded with major jazz figures such as avant garde saxophonist Albert Ayler, pianist ...
– double-bass
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Hiroshi Murakami – drums
1977 albums
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